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2024:

When Genocide Begins With ‘V’

Calling out veganism as the oppressor, not being for the oppressed. A look at The Vegan Society’s lack of support for Palestine and their relationship with oppression, settler colonialism and racism.

– Eshe Kiama Zuri Blog

2023:

Doulas For Palestine: Extended Statement

We need to stand united as doulas, we have a responsibility to be inclusive, to be internationalist, to challenge Israel and show public and proud support for Palestine and to practise reproductive justice for all, not just misunderstanding it to only show support for the privileged.

– Doulas For Palestine

What is the Abolitionist Response to Paedophiles? Part Two

Paedophiles are not a ‘minority’, they are accessing and using the power and violence that comes from the dominant societal structure in the world. So why is it so difficult to understand that this is one of the forms of oppression that we are fighting against? 

– DELINQUENTS

2022:

Who helps when it’s no longer trending? Remembering the power of Black mutual aid.

Mutual aid is what we’ve always known in Black communities and communities of colour internationally as abolitionist and survival praxis – from pardners, credit unions and funds, to big pots of shared stews, advocacy and revolutionary education. But over the last couple of years the term has been taken further away from anarchist and communist activism.

– Gal-Dem

2021:

Critical Veganism, what have we learnt?

When a white man coined the term veganism, are we included? Veganism is built on the backs of Black, Indigenous and Non-Western ancestral traditions. 

– Vegan Melanated

2020:

How to channel the anger of 2020 into sustainable activism in 2021

The Akan concept of Sankofa, “to go back and get it” and keep learning from the past, has been the 2020 theme. This year we’ve witnessed an explosion of energy – reigniting mass protest movements that have brought the past and the present together.

– Gal-Dem

‘We’ve been organising like this since day’ – why we must remember the Black roots of mutual aid groups

As the black founder of a radical mutual aid group launched in 2018, I am frustrated to see new, white, middle-class mutual aid groups launched during the pandemic bulldozing pre-existing networks.

– Gal-Dem

features

• Black and Brown Doulas Could Reduce Racially Skewed Maternal Deaths
  The Lead
  
• Interview with Organiser Eshe Kiama Zuri, Activist, Chef and Doula
  Black Feminist Collective
  
• Afterword for INNOCENCE & CORRUPTION
  Book by Aiyana Goodfellow (Physical Copy)
  
• Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in the 2023/2024 Charity Digital Skills Report
  Charity Digital Skills Report 2023 and 2024
  
• How PCOS Can Create Gender Euphoria For Trans and Nonbinary People
  Prism
  
• Interview with Eshe Kiama Zuri
  The Beetle Feed Issue 01: Nature and Nurture Black Beetle Health Magazine
  
• Here’s Why I Embrace The Term Queer – And Why Others Reject It 
  Yahoo
  
• How I’m Saving Myself From Burnout While Fighting For Change In The UK
  Refinery29
  
• Brick by Brick – How We Build a World Without Prisons
  Book by Cradle Community (Physical Copy)
  
• Radical Companionship: Rejecting Pethood and Embracing Our Multispecies World
  Book by Aiyana Goodfellow (Physical Copy)
  
• The Quiet But Affirming Birth Activism From [West] Midlands
  Black Ballad
  
• Afro Vegan Interviews: Eshe Kiama Zuri
  Afro Vegan Society
  
• Do We Get To Rest
  DAMTP #21 Zine (Physical Copy)
  
• Mutual Aid, Money and Shame
  Classwork Project
  
• Foreword for Chav Solidarity
  Book by D Hunter (Physical Copy in English, Italian and Greek)

mentions and citations

• Institute of Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University
• Seeds of Change: The Degrowth Movement and Strategies Towards Cultural Change
  Thesis – Wesleyan University
• Mutual Aid in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploration of Reciprocity, Education, and Subversiveness
  Thesis – Wesleyan University 
• Psychosocial Perspectives on Community Responses to Covid-19: Networks of Trust and Social Change
  Book edited by Emma O’Dwyer, Luiz Gustavo Silva
• Introduction to Digital Organising
  Guide by People & Planet
• The gal-dem guide to getting involved in mutual aid
  Gal-Dem
• The role of communities and the use of technology in mitigating loneliness during the Coronavirus pandemic
  Welsh Centre for Public Policy/ Canolfan Polisi Cyhoeddus Cymru
• Worker-led feminist mobilizing for the museum of the future
  Queen’s University Belfast and European Journal of Women’s Studies
• Giving Back, How To Do Good, Better
  Book by Derek Bardowell 
• Chicago Art Census
• The politics of organising during a pandemic
  Annapurna Menon via Westminster Research 
• On Nourishment
  JMB Consulting Blog
• The amplifying effect of perceived group politicization: Effects of group perceptions and identification on anxiety and coping self‐efficacy among members of UK COVID‐19 mutual aid groups
  National Library of Medicine and Wiley Online Library
• Nursing Mutual Aid in 2020: A Non-Hierarchical Model For Scholarship Dissemination
  Nursing Mutual Aid
• Feminist housing activism in the 1970s-1980s, #3: Community organising and mutual aid
  Glasgow Women’s Library
• What if nobody was disposable
  The New Economics Zine #3 
• Building back differently: a case for climate justice through abolition
  Shado Mag
• How Covid has helped create a new focus on collaboration
  Paul Hamlyn Foundation
• Virtue Vs Virus
  Dissertation – SOAS University
• Lessons of the Covid Mutual Aid Projects
  Freedom News
• The Politics of Anarchism, Burnout and Collective Care
  Derry Radical Bookfair
• Cooperative Economies Zine
  Chelsea Parise and Chris Keeve
• Queer Black Joy
  Lucy & Yak Blog
• New Research, Articles and Judgements
  Ariadne – European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights
• Living lavish: How Black capitalism took over the conversation in 2020
  Gal-Dem
• Community support and mutual aid resources
  University of Sussex
• Rooting the Cross in its soil: the danger of sanitising grassroots movements during COVID-19
  Durham University
• Transformative justice, harm reduction and the acknowledgment of marginalised legacy in newly emergent COVID-19 mutual aid grassroots movements
  Sheffield Transformative Justice Learning Group
• Plagues and Power
  Foundation For Change
• Let’s talk about intersectionality
  Bright Zine
• Cooperation Jackson on how to build an alternative economy for people of colour
  The Independent
• Campaign group wants to buy former play centre for £10 from Nottingham City Council
  Nottingham Post
• Wikipedia entry for Mutual Aid (Organization Theory)

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