Protyus A. GendherYou’re welcome here, even if you’re used to being the center. To belong, you must listen first, feel the imbalance, and choose healing. If you can decenter yourself, there’s endless room for you here.
#HealingTogether #DecenterToBelong #CommunalCare #SharedTruth
Anti. 🐘"They want us to think care is something we have to qualify for. That it belongs to the insured. The compliant. The deserving. But we win everyday when we reject all of that. When we remember care is a promise. Older than any institution. More powerful than any system. We win when we remember care is a practice, passed hand to hand. When we claim it as ours together, without apology."
"I don’t know what else to say. Hold each other close. Don’t forget the people who need our love and support. Reach out and say something you’ve needed to say. Even if it’s hard. Especially if it’s hard. There’s no other way to grow. No other way to feel the warmth."
"While the pandemic spurred many organizations to take on mutual aid projects for the first time, groups organizing to oppose the war on drugs and end cash bail and mass incarceration have long relied on mutual aid, collective care, and service provision as a key organizing strategy. "
https://convergencemag.com/articles/building-power-through-mutual-aid-lessons-from-the-field/
"Once Trump takes power, it will only become more challenging to make connections with our neighbors, create the networks that we will need to face down his assaults, and share the skills we will need to survive his reign. Right now, we have a precious window of time in which to prepare. Let’s make the most of it."
Das obige Zitat stammt von Genner aus der WoZ-Beilage zum Thema Preppen.
https://www.woz.ch/wobei/23-4/iii-die-prepperinnen/!8XFEMR1ATE25
Tadzio Müller sprichst von solidarischem Preppen. Doch wie soldarisch wäre er und seine in-group, wenn die Faschos aus Brandenburg anklopfen? Hoffentlich gar nicht.
Preppen geht somit immer um's überleben einer in-group, wie auch immer definiert, richtet sich auf Zukünftiges, Spekulatives, anstatt im hier/jetzt mit #MutualAid und #CommunalCare zu handeln.
This article can give a good impression on how anarchist mutual aid gets done in Asheville:
"Mutual aid looks mostly like meetings, spreadsheets, Signal loops (group messages), wellness checks, and deliveries. Deliveries by car, by truck, by ATV, by dirt bike, by pack mule, by helicopter, by foot. Neighbors who don’t even like each other are knocking on each other’s doors and making sure everyone has what they need."
https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/disaster-compassion-is-real-in-north
Let’s create spaces where everyone feels safe and valued, where we can address our needs together without relying on the very systems that have historically failed us. By embracing community care, we protect not only ourselves but also challenge the structures that perpetuate harm and neglect."
Radical Communal CareThis group aims to become a network for disabled and/or chronically ill persons and their partners, especially for people negatively affected or socially isolated during the ongoing pandemic. A place where communal care can be discussed and examined from an anarchistic/feminist viewpoint, but also to put it into practice.
Patriarchy kills.
Ableism isolates and kills.
Anti-capitalist.
Intersectional.
Anarcho-feminist.
Please let us know if you are interested in joining our Signal group.
Or help us to create zines, collections of art about #COVID19, #LongCOVID, the age of the #pandemic and the collective abandonment of disabled/chronically ill people.
"There's only one way to fight a wendigo. It's not with arrows or guns. You fight it by doing the opposite of cannibalism. You build community. You support people. You help them. You listen. You pay attention to threats and deal with them.
Compassion is resistance."