Mutual Aid

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Mutual Aid:

Welcome to the most activist part of the website! I’ve long been an advocate for mutual aid and solidarity with folks who live with marginalized identities whether I share those identities or not. Now I am getting a bit more formal and focused about my efforts. Realistically, I’m no one’s idea of an organizer. However, I have a lot of experience putting together resource lists from my days as a case manager. So I’m collating lot of the available information for people interested in jumping into mutual aid.

What is Mutual Aid:

Formally, mutual aid is “an organizational model where voluntary, collaborative exchanges of resources and services for common benefit take place amongst community members to overcome social, economic, and political barriers to meeting common needs” (Wikipedia, captured 12/8/2024). Informally, it is simply people helping people who are in the same boat as them. Its neighborliness. It’s an equal exchange of value between community members or a community coming together to support a member who is struggling. And it’s looking around to see what needs done, and doing it.

The organizations I’m linking to are resources both for people trying to get help and people offering help.

As always, I am looking for more resources, so if you are an organizer for a mutual aid organization that provides services in the United States, please contact me to let me know about your organization and what you offer.

Mutual Aid Goals for the Website in 2025:

• A publicly accessible sortable spreadsheet of mutual aid and direct action resources that includes resources I haven’t had time to highlight on the website (estimated March 2025).
• Mutual aid post frequency increased to a minimum of twice a week.
• Soup & Solidarity preview April 1, grand opening May 1.
• tbd.

Thank you.

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