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Notes on “Radio Ballads”

Putting care centre stage

Exhibit A: social care, survivors, authority and perpetrator (photos by the author)

Aged fifteen or sixteen I saw a neighbour almost kill his partner. He was a police officer, so he had access to a gun (in Cuba, the police carry guns). That night we were all playing dominoes at this guy’s mum’s, who was also my neighbour and almost a second mother to me…