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@laura_lemoon @already_eaten @HarmReduction @kcbyczk @amanda_brooks @Msjennalove @passthecatnip1 @lovelucymilano @katezenlove @ButterflyCSW @RedCanarySong @laurenmreichel As usual, yr $ goes directly in2 our materialist priorities as poor sw--syringes/Narcan/fentanyl test strips;meals/snacks;clothing/toiletries;bad date list;transport;childcare;cigs;stipends;presentations--provided by&4 us wkly. No bloat, all mutual aid. gofundme.com/w-ma-street-wo…

Signage that didn't make it to Twitter last nite re last night's @National_usu sw call--join us for our next biweekly call, 9 PM ET 3/31. We're making a zine on local activism by sw who use drugs & supporting a bunch of state campaigns!

5. Donate to s-x worker-led orgs in Mass: - Whose Corner Is it Anyway @marginalutilite gofundme.com/f/whose-corner… - us! donorbox.org/bswac

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. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

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! gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

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?”gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

We're trialing doing a governance version of these 1-2 X a year if not more often-formalizing what we've already done, having these help plan grant application programming. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

Right now, during our open hours, we have a series of four discussion and writing groups. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

We've replaced these with a lot of different variants of horizontal decision making over the years. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

Those huge meetings worked well then, but we grew, and COVID happened, and we couldn't all be in the space at once. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

We'd have a structured decision making time in those huge meetings in which all members could vote on internal decisions. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

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. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

(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!) gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

We're always thinking of ways to balance horizontal decision making processes with member capacity and interest in that. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

2)We're also using these discussion and writing groups as part of our governance process. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

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. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

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. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

It also helps us go over good examples of medical treatment and pick out details of what went right. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

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. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…

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. gofundme.com/f/whose-corner…