"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."
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.
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."
This 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."
The book edited by @cbmilstein is now available.
"Anarchist feminism—or anarcha-feminism—shows us that the ways we tend to our social relations can build a new world inside the old one. We can take care of each other when nothing else will, supplying communal well-being and liberatory horizons."
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349961/constellationsofcare/
Raum Bern/Schweiz:
Aus gesundheitlichen Gründen müssen wir uns weiterhin vor #COVID19 schützen, was zu zunehmend erdrückender sozialer Isolation und Einsamkeit geführt hat.
Wir suchen Leute, die wie wir weiterhin #CovidCautious leben müssen, oder wollen, um zusammen ein lokales Unterstützungsnetzwerk/Germ Pod/Masc Bloc aufzubauen.
Gibt es überhaupt solche Leute hier? Es wirkt nicht so.
For ex-pats or English-speakers as well:
Bern/Switzerland:
Because of health reasons we continue to protect ourselves from COVID-19, which has lead to a heavy burden of social isolation and loneliness.
We are looking for people who like us still have to, or choose to, live COVID cautious, to build a local support network/germ pod/masc bloc with them.
Do such people even exist here? It does not look like it.
These are two zines we created:
https://lettertoourcomrades.bearblog.dev
https://lettertoourcomrades.bearblog.dev/testimonials-of-the-collectively-abandoned/
"To me, creating a different kind of world is one where everyone’s care needs are taken care of, where care is a system of collective support that is anti-capitalist, that is anti-racist, that is gender inclusive, that understands the different care needs that people have, and understanding the different capacities that people have to give care. I don’t believe care can be egalitarian. Care is never egalitarian. It is not about equality, but rather it is about giving what we can and about getting what you need. And so for me, a real caring society would be universal in that sense, but it would be one in which we’re all equally invested."
Intent vs. Impact vs. You Cannot Not Communicate
Our #COVIDcautious lifestyle has increasingly pushed us into social isolation. Which has resulted in a siege mentality of sorts, where it's the two of us against the rest of the world. Family and friends were lost to us due to the push towards the normalization of the ongoing pandemic by a neoliberal order under late stage capitalism. It individualized responsibility, which not only forced us deeper under siege, but also made us increasingly lonely.
We tried to reach out to other people in similar situations, but no one seemed interested to engage with us in a committed way. #MutualAid, #GermPods, #CommunalCare, #CirclesOfTrust, it all sounded good in theory. But they were not happening for us.
What can we do?
We would be really grateful for some leads.
Still would love to discuss this topic here. The other day we were talking about, how men tend to make a big deal out of it when they are the care person, whereas women - at least in tendency - do this much less. Care work is still structurally "expected" from women in our culture.
Maybe we could organize a video chat on the care topic? Is anyone interested? @fr3nzin3
For our third zine we would like to critically examine some positive examples of community organizing that happened during the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic.
We would like to ask what went well, what could be improved, also how #CommunalCare and #MutualAid projects can scale and how we can turn them into a #PrefigurativePractice to help us get ready for any upcoming crisis and/or pandemic.
If this interests you, please join us to work on this zine.
If you know of interesting projects to examine, please let us know.
lettertoourcomrades[at]proton[dot]me or DM us here.
Read more about this idea in this toot thread:
How could #CommunalCare and #MutualAid scale, to maybe, and hopefully, turn into a mass mobilization? Yes, this is where our question turns utopian, in the best sense of the term, by asking: What could have been.
If this question interests you, if you know about projects that fit this description, if you would like to write, or already have written, about these questions, please feel free to contact us here or via mail lettertoourcomrades[at]proton[dot]me.
Call for contributions for a zine looking at the revolutionary potential of a crisis like the #COVID19 pandemic. For that we would like to critically examine some positive examples of community organizing that did happen. A look at #MutualAid, #GermPods, #CommunalCare #CirclesOfTrust projects started during the pandemic. We want to analyze what worked well, what didn't, which potentials for revolutionary prefigurative practice did happen, which were left unexplored. And at how this could scale.
2/2 This is a topic that interests me a lot and is hardly mentioned in the media. Does anyone know of any articles and/or studies on this? Or would you like to share your own experiences? I am aware that it is also very personal! DM me if you have thoughts to share or are maybe interested in a talk about this topic. #LongCovid #CareWork #CommunalCare #covidisnot0ver
1/2 The Care-Work for people with LongCovid is primarily passed on to the family/partner. Not only is this problematic in terms of unpaid and unappreciated care work, it also has an impact on the relationship. It can create a kind of dependency which can be ‘unhealthy’ for both sides. #LongCovid #CareWork #CommunalCare #covidisnot0ver
The Wimmelbild shows scenes of how we have been failed during the ongoing pandemic, in the absurd nation state where we are forced to live, in a country that wants us dead. And there are probably lots of international similarities.
This drawing was made by @fr3nzin3 for our new zine.
https://rant.li/atlettertoourcomradesatrant-li/testimonials-of-the-collectively-abandoned
Spot the: #Capybara
