ABSTRACT
The relationship between specificity and inclusion for political projects is at the heart of coalition building. Reagon's essay was a reworked version of remarks she gave at the West Coast Women's Music Festival in 1981, and it was a space where the nexus of identity, politics, and pleasure was fully visible. Reagon's “Coalition Politics at the Turn of the Century” naturalizes being skeptical of certain allyship, and thus is part of a genealogy of works that speak to the exclusionary practices of some white feminists. The Black feminist canon is, arguably, more mainstream than many other feminist works. However, Reagon's most radical statement may be one of uncare. An ethics of uncare may remind the reader that the people need to cultivate love and care outside of work, outside of institutions, outside of coalitions because the solidarity detent may never end.
