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   KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they) (kshernandez@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 08:06:42 JST KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they)

   Listen, I come from the type of folks who felt like, if you ever needed help more than once, they wouldn't help you at all.

   Or they wouldn't help you for fear of you needing help ever again. "What happens if you need help with rent next month?"
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     KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they) (kshernandez@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 08:06:38 JST KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they)

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     So, no. You don't have to be rich to participate in mutual aid. You just have to have a heart to help, a bit of empathy and a willingness to ... DO the things. I'm just saying.
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     KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they) (kshernandez@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 08:06:39 JST KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they)

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     The occasional resourced, monied person would pitch in a lump some, sometimes, but the consistency came from folks who could personally relate to such a position as to need to ask for help.
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     KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they) (kshernandez@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 08:06:40 JST KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they)

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     I thought #communitycare was some rich person, sitting among their finery, amidst stacks of cash to burn, doling out money upon sudden and brief pangs of philanthropy toward the poor and down trodden.
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     KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they) (kshernandez@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 08:06:40 JST KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they)

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     Image my surprise to learn that poor folks, just a few paychecks from broke, band together to take care of someone whose situation is more dire, and so on and so forth, around in a circle, for whoever needs it most, at the moment.
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     KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they) (kshernandez@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 08:06:41 JST KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they)

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     I mean, people pay rent every month, duh!

     That's effed up, right?

     This conditioning lead me to individualism and hyper independence, where asking for help, to me, was like death.

     So, it took some unlearning for me to understand what it meant to provide #communitycare.
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