Individualism Sucks & Why Mutual Aid is like Fungi, Trust Us.
A couple questions to ask yourself, courtesy AJ:
What do you use social media for right now? What purpose do you want your use of social media and the Internet to serve?
Do you wish you didn’t have [platform of your choice]? Do you think you could live without it?
What are you doing when you’re not online?
If you could reimagine your dream role within a community, what would it be?
Does “community” feel real to you? What do you think about when you hear that word? Who do you think about?
If community doesn’t feel real in your life, what are some steps you could take to make it more real, especially in a time when so many of us have to be physically separated from one another?
What do you have some extra of that you could share? Do you have time? Money? Resources? A car? Physical ability? A phone/an Internet connection? A totally sick PDF collection? Look around for ways to share these things!
What kind of work, to you, feels constructive to undertake publicly? What kind of work is better taken offline? What kind of work needs to primarily exist between you and yourself?
Further Reading
Adrian Jade Matias Bell Instagram, Bandcamp
Jia Tolentino - What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic
Sigal Samuel - How to help people during the pandemic, one Google spreadsheet at a time
Samantha Fields - Mutual aid grows in popularity during protests and pandemic
Nick Mancall-Bitel - Mutual Aid Groups Band Together to Feed Communities Through Crisis
