#collectivecare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #collectivecare, aggregated by home.social.
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The Human Face of Biosecurity: Empathy and Solidarity in Benguet’s Fight Against African Swine Fever
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The Human Face of Biosecurity: Empathy and Solidarity in Benguet’s Fight Against African Swine Fever
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The Human Face of Biosecurity: Empathy and Solidarity in Benguet’s Fight Against African Swine Fever
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The Human Face of Biosecurity: Empathy and Solidarity in Benguet’s Fight Against African Swine Fever
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From Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth:
"People need places where they do not have to translate every feeling into usefulness.
They need spaces where grief, doubt, longing, exhaustion, joy, and moral complexity can be held with care. They need opportunities to consider what sustains them and what kind of people they want to become in the course of trying to change the world. They need spaces where reflection, connection, beauty, and collective grounding are treated as part of what makes sustained struggle possible.
For too long, masculinist ideas about strength, discipline, and what is supposedly too indulgent or “too woo” to merit time have prevented many groups from creating the spaces they need for care and renewal. Reflection and restoration are often treated as luxuries that can wait until the urgent work is finished—as though the urgent work will ever be finished."
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From Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth:
"People need places where they do not have to translate every feeling into usefulness.
They need spaces where grief, doubt, longing, exhaustion, joy, and moral complexity can be held with care. They need opportunities to consider what sustains them and what kind of people they want to become in the course of trying to change the world. They need spaces where reflection, connection, beauty, and collective grounding are treated as part of what makes sustained struggle possible.
For too long, masculinist ideas about strength, discipline, and what is supposedly too indulgent or “too woo” to merit time have prevented many groups from creating the spaces they need for care and renewal. Reflection and restoration are often treated as luxuries that can wait until the urgent work is finished—as though the urgent work will ever be finished."
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From Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth:
"People need places where they do not have to translate every feeling into usefulness.
They need spaces where grief, doubt, longing, exhaustion, joy, and moral complexity can be held with care. They need opportunities to consider what sustains them and what kind of people they want to become in the course of trying to change the world. They need spaces where reflection, connection, beauty, and collective grounding are treated as part of what makes sustained struggle possible.
For too long, masculinist ideas about strength, discipline, and what is supposedly too indulgent or “too woo” to merit time have prevented many groups from creating the spaces they need for care and renewal. Reflection and restoration are often treated as luxuries that can wait until the urgent work is finished—as though the urgent work will ever be finished."
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From Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth:
"People need places where they do not have to translate every feeling into usefulness.
They need spaces where grief, doubt, longing, exhaustion, joy, and moral complexity can be held with care. They need opportunities to consider what sustains them and what kind of people they want to become in the course of trying to change the world. They need spaces where reflection, connection, beauty, and collective grounding are treated as part of what makes sustained struggle possible.
For too long, masculinist ideas about strength, discipline, and what is supposedly too indulgent or “too woo” to merit time have prevented many groups from creating the spaces they need for care and renewal. Reflection and restoration are often treated as luxuries that can wait until the urgent work is finished—as though the urgent work will ever be finished."
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The experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans during WWII have much to teach about intergenerational trauma and healing. #trauma #mentalhealth #collectivecare
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The experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans during WWII have much to teach about intergenerational trauma and healing. #trauma #mentalhealth #collectivecare
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The experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans during WWII have much to teach about intergenerational trauma and healing. #trauma #mentalhealth #collectivecare
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In the real world
We're not dealing with abstract “community dynamics.” we're dealing with live-aboard boaters under pressure, rowers, landowners, council, Environment Agency and scarcity of space (moorings). This in the end is about visibility vs invisibility on the river, so friction isn’t theoretical - it’s structural. Let's look at the conflict patterns we’re seeing: Back-channel poisoning (#whispers #splitting) “X group are the problem”, “They’ve already decided this”, “Don’t […] -
In the real world
We're not dealing with abstract “community dynamics.” we're dealing with live-aboard boaters under pressure, rowers, landowners, council, Environment Agency and scarcity of space (moorings). This in the end is about visibility vs invisibility on the river, so friction isn’t theoretical - it’s structural. Let's look at the conflict patterns we’re seeing: Back-channel poisoning (#whispers #splitting) “X group are the problem”, “They’ve already decided this”, “Don’t […] -
We’ve spent decades designing systems - institutions, platforms, cultures - that reward endurance over adaptation.
Then we are surprised when they crack under pressure.
Resilience is not about holding everything together by force. It is about building things that can adapt, respond, and repair.
Maybe the question isn’t how strong we are. It is how well what surrounds us is designed to hold us when we’re not.
#Resilience #MentalHealth #SystemsDesign #CollectiveCare #Wellbeing #SocialChange
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We’ve spent decades designing systems - institutions, platforms, cultures - that reward endurance over adaptation.
Then we are surprised when they crack under pressure.
Resilience is not about holding everything together by force. It is about building things that can adapt, respond, and repair.
Maybe the question isn’t how strong we are. It is how well what surrounds us is designed to hold us when we’re not.
#Resilience #MentalHealth #SystemsDesign #CollectiveCare #Wellbeing #SocialChange
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We’ve spent decades designing systems - institutions, platforms, cultures - that reward endurance over adaptation.
Then we are surprised when they crack under pressure.
Resilience is not about holding everything together by force. It is about building things that can adapt, respond, and repair.
Maybe the question isn’t how strong we are. It is how well what surrounds us is designed to hold us when we’re not.
#Resilience #MentalHealth #SystemsDesign #CollectiveCare #Wellbeing #SocialChange
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We’ve spent decades designing systems - institutions, platforms, cultures - that reward endurance over adaptation.
Then we are surprised when they crack under pressure.
Resilience is not about holding everything together by force. It is about building things that can adapt, respond, and repair.
Maybe the question isn’t how strong we are. It is how well what surrounds us is designed to hold us when we’re not.
#Resilience #MentalHealth #SystemsDesign #CollectiveCare #Wellbeing #SocialChange
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The Peaceful Three show that power doesn’t have to run on fear or collateral. These societies prove that connection, care, and shared responsibility can replace hostage logic entirely.
#UnifiedTheoryOfPower #PeacefulThree #AlternativeSystems #CollectiveCare -
@melioristicmarie
True: “black panthers are still one of the most awe inspiring social collectives” 🙂 & just 10 minutes in, this video is so powerful, has so much deep explanatory power & is so helpful, so practical. By a deeply charismatic individual. Respect. 🙏🏻 -
@melioristicmarie
True: “black panthers are still one of the most awe inspiring social collectives” 🙂 & just 10 minutes in, this video is so powerful, has so much deep explanatory power & is so helpful, so practical. By a deeply charismatic individual. Respect. 🙏🏻 -
@melioristicmarie
True: “black panthers are still one of the most awe inspiring social collectives” 🙂 & just 10 minutes in, this video is so powerful, has so much deep explanatory power & is so helpful, so practical. By a deeply charismatic individual. Respect. 🙏🏻 -
@melioristicmarie
True: “black panthers are still one of the most awe inspiring social collectives” 🙂 & just 10 minutes in, this video is so powerful, has so much deep explanatory power & is so helpful, so practical. By a deeply charismatic individual. Respect. 🙏🏻 -
#AntiICE Organizing Is Creating #CounterInstitutions Based on Care
#RapidResponseNetworks and #MutualAid are not charity. They’re #SharedInfrastructure for #CollectiveCare and survival.
By Rashida James-Saadiya, Truthout
February 4, 2026Excerpt: "Our #resistance must be shaped by what lies ahead: a system sliding toward open #authoritarianism, the normalization of mass violence, and repression that is no longer episodic but continuous. The task now is not to burn brighter or faster, but to build the collective capacity to withstand what’s coming.
"This past year has made one thing unmistakably clear: This system is designed to wear us — and our movements — down. The most subversive thing we can do is refuse to disappear. Refuse to surrender our ability to imagine liberation. The question now is not how much more we can push ourselves, or how long we can survive in isolation, but whether we can build the capacity to hold on — to care for and protect one another — because everything ahead of us depends on it."
Full article:
https://truthout.org/articles/anti-ice-organizing-is-creating-counter-institutions-based-on-care/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/cZdYy#USPol #ResistICE #ResistAuthoritarianism #BuildingCommunity #LookOutForEachOther
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#AntiICE Organizing Is Creating #CounterInstitutions Based on Care
#RapidResponseNetworks and #MutualAid are not charity. They’re #SharedInfrastructure for #CollectiveCare and survival.
By Rashida James-Saadiya, Truthout
February 4, 2026Excerpt: "Our #resistance must be shaped by what lies ahead: a system sliding toward open #authoritarianism, the normalization of mass violence, and repression that is no longer episodic but continuous. The task now is not to burn brighter or faster, but to build the collective capacity to withstand what’s coming.
"This past year has made one thing unmistakably clear: This system is designed to wear us — and our movements — down. The most subversive thing we can do is refuse to disappear. Refuse to surrender our ability to imagine liberation. The question now is not how much more we can push ourselves, or how long we can survive in isolation, but whether we can build the capacity to hold on — to care for and protect one another — because everything ahead of us depends on it."
Full article:
https://truthout.org/articles/anti-ice-organizing-is-creating-counter-institutions-based-on-care/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/cZdYy#USPol #ResistICE #ResistAuthoritarianism #BuildingCommunity #LookOutForEachOther
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#AntiICE Organizing Is Creating #CounterInstitutions Based on Care
#RapidResponseNetworks and #MutualAid are not charity. They’re #SharedInfrastructure for #CollectiveCare and survival.
By Rashida James-Saadiya, Truthout
February 4, 2026Excerpt: "Our #resistance must be shaped by what lies ahead: a system sliding toward open #authoritarianism, the normalization of mass violence, and repression that is no longer episodic but continuous. The task now is not to burn brighter or faster, but to build the collective capacity to withstand what’s coming.
"This past year has made one thing unmistakably clear: This system is designed to wear us — and our movements — down. The most subversive thing we can do is refuse to disappear. Refuse to surrender our ability to imagine liberation. The question now is not how much more we can push ourselves, or how long we can survive in isolation, but whether we can build the capacity to hold on — to care for and protect one another — because everything ahead of us depends on it."
Full article:
https://truthout.org/articles/anti-ice-organizing-is-creating-counter-institutions-based-on-care/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/cZdYy#USPol #ResistICE #ResistAuthoritarianism #BuildingCommunity #LookOutForEachOther
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#AntiICE Organizing Is Creating #CounterInstitutions Based on Care
#RapidResponseNetworks and #MutualAid are not charity. They’re #SharedInfrastructure for #CollectiveCare and survival.
By Rashida James-Saadiya, Truthout
February 4, 2026Excerpt: "Our #resistance must be shaped by what lies ahead: a system sliding toward open #authoritarianism, the normalization of mass violence, and repression that is no longer episodic but continuous. The task now is not to burn brighter or faster, but to build the collective capacity to withstand what’s coming.
"This past year has made one thing unmistakably clear: This system is designed to wear us — and our movements — down. The most subversive thing we can do is refuse to disappear. Refuse to surrender our ability to imagine liberation. The question now is not how much more we can push ourselves, or how long we can survive in isolation, but whether we can build the capacity to hold on — to care for and protect one another — because everything ahead of us depends on it."
Full article:
https://truthout.org/articles/anti-ice-organizing-is-creating-counter-institutions-based-on-care/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/cZdYy#USPol #ResistICE #ResistAuthoritarianism #BuildingCommunity #LookOutForEachOther
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We’re taught really early that rage is the problem. That if it shows up, it means something is wrong with us.
But rage doesn’t just come out of nowhere.
It comes from loss.
It comes from harm.
It comes from having your agency taken and never given back.Shared from https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16br1WKPpB/
#DecolonizingTherapy #CollectiveCare #RageAsResponse #GriefAndRage #PoliticalHealing #anger #rage #grief
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We’re taught really early that rage is the problem. That if it shows up, it means something is wrong with us.
But rage doesn’t just come out of nowhere.
It comes from loss.
It comes from harm.
It comes from having your agency taken and never given back.Shared from https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16br1WKPpB/
#DecolonizingTherapy #CollectiveCare #RageAsResponse #GriefAndRage #PoliticalHealing #anger #rage #grief
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We’re taught really early that rage is the problem. That if it shows up, it means something is wrong with us.
But rage doesn’t just come out of nowhere.
It comes from loss.
It comes from harm.
It comes from having your agency taken and never given back.Shared from https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16br1WKPpB/
#DecolonizingTherapy #CollectiveCare #RageAsResponse #GriefAndRage #PoliticalHealing #anger #rage #grief
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We’re taught really early that rage is the problem. That if it shows up, it means something is wrong with us.
But rage doesn’t just come out of nowhere.
It comes from loss.
It comes from harm.
It comes from having your agency taken and never given back.Shared from https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16br1WKPpB/
#DecolonizingTherapy #CollectiveCare #RageAsResponse #GriefAndRage #PoliticalHealing #anger #rage #grief
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Everyday Acts of Care as Resistance in Our Communities
Resistance encompasses diverse actions beyond physical presence, such as mutual aid and community care, which are crucial forms of support. These involve sharing resources, checking on neighbors, and behind-the-scenes organization, often led by disabled and neurodivergent individuals. Helping others is a vital form of resistance that emphasizes sustainability and connection within communities.https://dreamspacestudio.net/everyday-acts-of-care-as-resistance-in-our-communities/
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Everyday Acts of Care as Resistance in Our Communities
Resistance encompasses diverse actions beyond physical presence, such as mutual aid and community care, which are crucial forms of support. These involve sharing resources, checking on neighbors, and behind-the-scenes organization, often led by disabled and neurodivergent individuals. Helping others is a vital form of resistance that emphasizes sustainability and connection within communities.https://dreamspacestudio.net/everyday-acts-of-care-as-resistance-in-our-communities/
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Everyday Acts of Care as Resistance in Our Communities
Resistance encompasses diverse actions beyond physical presence, such as mutual aid and community care, which are crucial forms of support. These involve sharing resources, checking on neighbors, and behind-the-scenes organization, often led by disabled and neurodivergent individuals. Helping others is a vital form of resistance that emphasizes sustainability and connection within communities.https://dreamspacestudio.net/everyday-acts-of-care-as-resistance-in-our-communities/
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Everyday Acts of Care as Resistance in Our Communities
Resistance encompasses diverse actions beyond physical presence, such as mutual aid and community care, which are crucial forms of support. These involve sharing resources, checking on neighbors, and behind-the-scenes organization, often led by disabled and neurodivergent individuals. Helping others is a vital form of resistance that emphasizes sustainability and connection within communities.https://dreamspacestudio.net/everyday-acts-of-care-as-resistance-in-our-communities/
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Modern culture often treats pain as a private problem to be solved.
Another orientation recognises pain as shared knowing, shaped by the world we’re moving through together. The Dusty Dimmer Switch isn’t about erasing feeling — it’s about lowering the glare, introducing space, and remembering that what we feel is not ours alone.
#BáyòAkómoláfé #DustyDimmerSwitch #CollectiveCare #NervousSystemWisdom
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Modern culture often treats pain as a private problem to be solved.
Another orientation recognises pain as shared knowing, shaped by the world we’re moving through together. The Dusty Dimmer Switch isn’t about erasing feeling — it’s about lowering the glare, introducing space, and remembering that what we feel is not ours alone.
#BáyòAkómoláfé #DustyDimmerSwitch #CollectiveCare #NervousSystemWisdom
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Modern culture often treats pain as a private problem to be solved.
Another orientation recognises pain as shared knowing, shaped by the world we’re moving through together. The Dusty Dimmer Switch isn’t about erasing feeling — it’s about lowering the glare, introducing space, and remembering that what we feel is not ours alone.
#BáyòAkómoláfé #DustyDimmerSwitch #CollectiveCare #NervousSystemWisdom
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There’s a quiet relief in remembering that responsibility can be shared.
The scale of change we’re living through is real — but it was never meant to land on individual shoulders alone. When everything feels personal, exhaustion follows. When responsibility is shared, something else becomes possible.
This line makes room for collective steadiness instead of private overwhelm.
#HomelessInTheAgora #CollectiveCare #Enoughness #NaomiKlein #LifeboatAcademy
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There’s a quiet relief in remembering that responsibility can be shared.
The scale of change we’re living through is real — but it was never meant to land on individual shoulders alone. When everything feels personal, exhaustion follows. When responsibility is shared, something else becomes possible.
This line makes room for collective steadiness instead of private overwhelm.
#HomelessInTheAgora #CollectiveCare #Enoughness #NaomiKlein #LifeboatAcademy
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There’s a quiet relief in remembering that responsibility can be shared.
The scale of change we’re living through is real — but it was never meant to land on individual shoulders alone. When everything feels personal, exhaustion follows. When responsibility is shared, something else becomes possible.
This line makes room for collective steadiness instead of private overwhelm.
#HomelessInTheAgora #CollectiveCare #Enoughness #NaomiKlein #LifeboatAcademy
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD runs down her dissertation "Community medicine: Abolitionist worldbuilding among drug use liberation activists on Turtle Island"
PLEASE WATCH IT even if you don't care about drugs
It does a great job of explaining how all our struggles are connected ❤️🩹
#colonialism #prohibition #racism #abelism #collectiveCare #healing
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD runs down her dissertation "Community medicine: Abolitionist worldbuilding among drug use liberation activists on Turtle Island"
PLEASE WATCH IT even if you don't care about drugs
It does a great job of explaining how all our struggles are connected ❤️🩹
#colonialism #prohibition #racism #abelism #collectiveCare #healing
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD runs down her dissertation "Community medicine: Abolitionist worldbuilding among drug use liberation activists on Turtle Island"
PLEASE WATCH IT even if you don't care about drugs
It does a great job of explaining how all our struggles are connected ❤️🩹
#colonialism #prohibition #racism #abelism #collectiveCare #healing
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD runs down her dissertation "Community medicine: Abolitionist worldbuilding among drug use liberation activists on Turtle Island"
PLEASE WATCH IT even if you don't care about drugs
It does a great job of explaining how all our struggles are connected ❤️🩹
#colonialism #prohibition #racism #abelism #collectiveCare #healing
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‼️🫨 371/2,600 — 2,229 to go 😻 Thanks to everyone who's shown up‼️
UPDATE: landlady agreed to shift the DL to 10 Dec, so it means more time to build up anxiety by then 🥹👍🏻🚨 2k by 10 Dec 🚨 Hopefully this can be met a lot sooner. I can't live with this much anxiety.
🏠 600 for December's essentials (incl. utilities + meds + internet, etc)If you can support, please do. If you can’t, reposting helps it reach someone who can. Thank you, thank you 💜🙂↕️
🔗 https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal
#MutualAidRequest #disabledmutualaid #MutualAidBoost #disabilitycrowdfund @[email protected] @[email protected] @MutualAidNet @mutualaidboost @mutual_aid @FediAid @edendestroyer @[email protected] @[email protected]
#housingaid #ActuallyAustistic #AuDHD #cptsd #CollectiveCare #emergencycrowdfund
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There’s a disabled trans woman in my extended network who needs someone to help manage her Chuffed campaign for a family in #Gaza. The role is mostly staying in touch with her, keeping the page updated, and helping sustain visibility.
If you’ve done digital organising before, or have the steadiness and capacity to take on this labour, it would genuinely help. Mutual aid is shared work, not something one person should be carrying alone.
If you’re in a position to help, hmu.
Boosting this helps it reach the right people. Thank you.#CollectiveCare #mutualaid #CareWork #transmutualaid #DisabilityJustice #disabledmutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #palestine
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So… I can no longer manage both transactional freelance work and digital advocacy simultaneously. The rhythms of the survival hustle are fundamentally incompatible with building a lasting global legacy. So I've decided to focus my full, unfragmented energy on continuous advocacy and building the groundwork of a digital ecosystem meant to outlive our generation.
Full transparency on the why and the new support structure is detailed here:
https://wrzky.com/mutual-aid-and-building-legacy#mutualaid #MutualAidSavesLives
#MutualAidRequest
@[email protected]
@mutual_aid
@[email protected]
@mutualaidboost
#MutualAidBoost #AuDHD #CPTSD
#nonprofit
#CollectiveCare
#communitycare
#projectmanagement #offgrid -
So… I can no longer manage both transactional freelance work and digital advocacy simultaneously. The rhythms of the survival hustle are fundamentally incompatible with building a lasting global legacy. So I've decided to focus my full, unfragmented energy on continuous advocacy and building the groundwork of a digital ecosystem meant to outlive our generation.
Full transparency on the why and the new support structure is detailed here:
https://wrzky.com/mutual-aid-and-building-legacy#mutualaid #MutualAidSavesLives
#MutualAidRequest
@[email protected]
@mutual_aid
@[email protected]
@mutualaidboost
#MutualAidBoost #AuDHD #CPTSD
#nonprofit
#CollectiveCare
#communitycare
#projectmanagement #offgrid -
So… I can no longer manage both transactional freelance work and digital advocacy simultaneously. The rhythms of the survival hustle are fundamentally incompatible with building a lasting global legacy. So I've decided to focus my full, unfragmented energy on continuous advocacy and building the groundwork of a digital ecosystem meant to outlive our generation.
Full transparency on the why and the new support structure is detailed here:
https://wrzky.com/mutual-aid-and-building-legacyReposting this helps greatly, thank you thank you 🙂↕️💜
#mutualaid #MutualAidSavesLives
#MutualAidRequest
@[email protected]
@mutual_aid
@[email protected]
@mutualaidboost
#MutualAidBoost #AuDHD #CPTSD
#nonprofit
#CollectiveCare
#communitycare
#projectmanagement #offgrid
#ActuallyAutistic -
Have you ever noticed how deeply our society has mangled the idea of autonomy until it barely resembles anything human. We are trained to imagine ourselves as tiny sovereign islands whose choices exist in perfect isolation, even though every choice we make bleeds outward into the lives, bodies, and emotional landscapes of the people around us. This distortion becomes most obvious when you look at how people react to being asked to include others in decisions that materially affect them. They treat that inclusion like a robbery of their freedom while pretending that the fallout they create is somehow weightless. It is a strange fucking equation where accountability feels like trespass but consequence does not. That reversal is not natural. It is manufactured. Once you see that pattern clearly, you see the fingerprints of imperial logic all over it. Empire teaches people to believe that their impacts are simply facts of life while the impacts they endure from others are violations. It builds a worldview where asserting your comfort is normal and absorbing the discomfort you cause is the responsibility of everyone else. Even in intimate settings like friendships and sexual relationships, people reproduce this same structure. They cling to a tiny imagined sphere of personal autonomy that somehow must override any harm, risk, or emotional turbulence that their habits create for the people tied to them. They do not call it domination, because domination becomes invisible when it is practiced in miniature. But the architecture is the same as the state. Autonomy in this society is an anemic little idea. It is important, but its actual scope is minuscule. Without collective reinforcement, it barely extends beyond the limits of your limbs. People act like it is this vast realm of unbounded license, but in reality, it is a fragile conceptual tool that only gains strength when held collectively. Autonomy means next to nothing alone but can reshape the world when connected, autonomy becomes powerful only through reciprocal recognition. When people defend autonomy as if it thrives in isolation, what they are actually defending is the right to ignore the relational web that makes meaningful freedom possible at all. They mistake solitude for sovereignty. This is why the refusal to let affected people participate in decisions about your habits is not neutrality. It is a small scale reenactment of the governing posture. It is the transformation of personal life into an arena where one person’s preferences become law and everyone else becomes subject to its effects without representation. People get defensive because they think the alternative is giving up their body or their agency to someone else. But the real alternative is mutual accountability, not subordination. It is the acknowledgment that freedom and consequence are siblings, and you cannot amputate one without mutilating the other. The irony is that this hyper individualist version of autonomy destroys the very thing it claims to protect. When you treat others as intruders the moment they engage with the consequences you create, you turn autonomy into a weaponized excuse to avoid responsibility. You reproduce the emotional logic of the state: my expansion is natural, your resistance is aggression. You dull yourself to the effects you produce while reacting violently to the idea that anyone else’s needs might intersect with your own. That is how empire sneaks into intimate life. It teaches people to feel righteous about impact and persecuted by accountability. Calling autonomy a shared delusion is not cynicism. It is clarity. Human autonomy has always been conditional, always intertwined with the collective arrangements that allow us to survive and express ourselves. Pretending otherwise only makes cooperation impossible and leaves people trapped inside tiny fictions of personal sovereignty that cannot withstand pressure from reality. When we admit that autonomy is constructed, relational, and fundamentally limited, we become able to actually use it. We can explore the psychological forces behind defensiveness. We can talk honestly about how to reshape habits that spill over onto the people we care about. We can stop mimicking the structures that dominate us. If we want liberation, we cannot replicate the same imperial logic that treats consequence as invisible and accountability as violation. We have to rebuild autonomy as a cooperative process, not a barricade. Because any model of freedom that depends on apathy toward those affected by it is not freedom. It is empire wearing the mask of the self.
#Anarchism #AntiAuthoritarian #PowerDynamics #TraumaInformed #Psychology #SocialDynamics #InterpersonalRelationships #AbolitionistPerspective #LeftistDiscussion #CollectiveCare #CommunityCare #Decolonize #CriticalTheory #SurveillanceCulture #HierarchyKills #Autonomy #LiberatoryPractice
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HR keeps asking why no one wants to work anymore.
Meanwhile employees are begging for belonging, respect, and safety — not pizza parties. 🍕💀#HealthyWorkCulture #LeadershipMatters #AntiToxicWork #WorkersDeserveBetter #MentalHealthAtWork #LaborRights #CompassionIsProductivity #CollectiveCare
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HR keeps asking why no one wants to work anymore.
Meanwhile employees are begging for belonging, respect, and safety — not pizza parties. 🍕💀#HealthyWorkCulture #LeadershipMatters #AntiToxicWork #WorkersDeserveBetter #MentalHealthAtWork #LaborRights #CompassionIsProductivity #CollectiveCare
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HR keeps asking why no one wants to work anymore.
Meanwhile employees are begging for belonging, respect, and safety — not pizza parties. 🍕💀#HealthyWorkCulture #LeadershipMatters #AntiToxicWork #WorkersDeserveBetter #MentalHealthAtWork #LaborRights #CompassionIsProductivity #CollectiveCare
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HR keeps asking why no one wants to work anymore.
Meanwhile employees are begging for belonging, respect, and safety — not pizza parties. 🍕💀#HealthyWorkCulture #LeadershipMatters #AntiToxicWork #WorkersDeserveBetter #MentalHealthAtWork #LaborRights #CompassionIsProductivity #CollectiveCare
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Next week I will be speaking about my queer embroidery research and care practices for community-based participatory design research projects at this awesome event.
#ConcordiaUniversity #FiberArts #Embroidery #2SLGBTQ #CollectiveCare
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Next week I will be speaking about my queer embroidery research and care practices for community-based participatory design research projects at this awesome event.
#ConcordiaUniversity #FiberArts #Embroidery #2SLGBTQ #CollectiveCare
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Remembering the lives marked by war — and the systems that keep demanding more of them.
Peace is not an endpoint.
It’s how we choose to care in the midst of harm.
May we keep practising, together.#RemembranceDay #Peace #Nonviolence #CollectiveCare #EcologicalPeace #TraumaAware #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
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Remembering the lives marked by war — and the systems that keep demanding more of them.
Peace is not an endpoint.
It’s how we choose to care in the midst of harm.
May we keep practising, together.#RemembranceDay #Peace #Nonviolence #CollectiveCare #EcologicalPeace #TraumaAware #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
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Remembering the lives marked by war — and the systems that keep demanding more of them.
Peace is not an endpoint.
It’s how we choose to care in the midst of harm.
May we keep practising, together.#RemembranceDay #Peace #Nonviolence #CollectiveCare #EcologicalPeace #TraumaAware #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery
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collective care is radical.
mutual aid is radical.
integrating everything you learned in 2020 is radical.
they cannot control us when we know we can depend on one another.
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