Caty Simon
@marginalutilite.bsky.social
Ex-lumpenprole,ruthless editrix,tedious dilettante, community researcher,mediocre organizer.National Survivors Union/NC Survivors Union/Whose Corner Is It Anyway/Yale School of Medicine--give to gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway
Currently only $355 short to opening an hour early for programming next time for Whose Corner Is It Anyway, our group by/for low-income, housing insecure sws + trafficking survivors who use drugs! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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MEDICAL TRAUMA ZINE,OD AFTERMATH CHAT, KIT ASSEMBLY HIGHLIGHTS: Another month & fundraising again for Whose Corner Is It Anyway, our hr/mutual aid/organizing group by/for low-income sworkers/trafficking survivors who use drugs +/or are housing insecure. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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MEDICAL TRAUMA ZINE,OD AFTERMATH CHAT, KIT ASSEMBLY HIGHLIGHTS: Another month & fundraising again for Whose Corner Is It Anyway, our hr/mutual aid/organizing group by/for low-income sworkers/trafficking survivors who use drugs +/or are housing insecure. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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For international sex worker's rights day I ask you all to please donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway! This group works so hard in such impossible circumstances to keep sex workers alive and safe and if you pick anyone to send money to I hope you pick them
Caty Simon@marginalutilite.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt's been a while since I fundraised 4 Whose Corner Is It Anyway, our W MA harm redux/mutual aid/organizing group by/for low-income sw + trafficking survivors who use drugs + experience housing insecurity. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
5. Donate to sex worker-led orgs in Mass: - Whose Corner Is it Anyway @marginalutilite.bsky.social gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway - us! donorbox.org/bswac or Cash App $bostonswac
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As usual, your funds allow us a little wiggle room to follow priorities besides those of our funders---to do what grant makers don't care about that much, but our members DO. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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Thank you so fucking much for your donations while we took a fundraising hiatus, and for your using the monthly feature which you've been asking us about for literal years, which Gofundme has finally blessed us with! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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No, it acknowledges the suffering while suggesting there's hope within it yet--just as the writing project on medical trauma I wrote about above does. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn... ...or that leaves it all down to the "resilience" of marginalized and oppressed communities...
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...b) nurturing that vein of hope and autonomy--and not in the some shallow bullshit sense of positivity that ignores the extreme suffering members face... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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This programming accomplishes two purposes--a) equalizing decision making in a group that's by us and for us and... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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One piece of capacity development we're really looking forward to is learning how to code these governance writing workshops by theme, so we get a sharper perspective on them. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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We're trying to ensure that we have a vein of positivity in all our projects, including writing--trying to fit conversation about fashion + hobbies etc. into grant deliverables. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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People get truly excited about it. It is positive and hopeful, in stark contrast to conversations we always have about topics like overdose and stigma. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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Then we ask each other to prioritize our ideas from 1 to 5. This is a great dialogue because unlike so many of the conversations we're forced to have about structural damage, it's about pleasure, imagination, and solutions. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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We ask each other questions like: “What do you like about what we’re already doing? What would you like us to do differently? What would you like to see more of?” www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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We're trialing doing a governance version of these workshops 1-2 X a year if not more often-formalizing what we've already done, having these help plan grant application programming. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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Right now, during our open hours, we have a series of four discussion and writing groups. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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We've replaced these with a lot of different variants of horizontal decision making over the years. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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Those huge meetings worked well then, but we grew, and COVID happened, and we couldn't all be in the space at once. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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We'd have a structured decision making time in those huge meetings in which all members could vote on internal decisions. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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Our horizontal decision making has looked a lot of different ways. In our first years pre-COVID, from 2017-2020, we had huge all-base-membership meetings weekly. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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(Often, when you've been walking around houseless for days and are exhausted just trying to survive, you don't have much interest in planning organizationally in 6 month increments!) www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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We're always thinking of ways to balance horizontal decision making processes with member capacity and interest in that. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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2)We're also using these discussion and writing groups as part of our governance process. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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After we finish the medical trauma process + refine stories to a final product with the authors, we have so much material we've accumulated from other writing projects and our own writing workshops to refine from there. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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Doing this on pen and paper is a much more labor heavy process, involving rounds and rounds of scanning + in-person editing, but it's also deeply rewarding. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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It also helps us go over good examples of medical treatment and pick out details of what went right. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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In our medical trauma drafts, just going over stories together pushes through the amnesia of trauma + lets people remember crucial details of abuse + mistreatment + how they impacted them. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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We've learned once again that meaning making comes as much out of editing as out of drafting, and that it's deeply collaborative for us. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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