ABSTRACT
Radical imagination and the transformations that ensue are fundamentally collaborative, connected, and conscious. In an effort to first imagine and then cocreate a more just, equitable present/future for nursing and those with whom we care in the spirit of radical imagination, this chapter examines nursing care as praxis and the shifts that occur in embracing kinship as a reciprocal model for nursing. In so doing, embedded power structures within the healthcare-industrial complex are challenged – and thus nursing – as we currently know it is challenged. Using feminist, queer, anticolonial, anti-imperialist, and abolitionist insights, a present/future for nursing liberated from the capitalist political economy entrenched in a boundless society of control is imagined. This speculative vision is urgent, encompassing, and material, bursting open the boundaries of nursing as we consider with whom we align and how we build toward a future on a deteriorating planet.
