Mutual Aid & Kropotkin

12K likes, 77 comments - imperfectactivista on October 6, 2026: "Everywhere I turn I see survivors sexual violence hurting, but it’s not only us. Plenty of our community are struggling under the weight of racism, capitalism, fascism, take your pick. Plenty of us are struggling emotionally and materially with the realities of this world. . We can (and I fear must) keep us safe, heard and cared for. So I’m sharing #practicalandtactical info about a topic I feel most strongly about: militant collective care. We need to develop a discipline and practice around caring for each other’s mental health in much the same way we seek to fill more material needs. . As @embracing.ambiguity points out: The future of mental health is ABSOLUTELY mutual aid. It has to be. Our already limited, carceral, and colonial mental health structures are completely inadequate to the challenges we are facing and the challenges to come. So it is up to us to keep each other safe, heard and cared for. . This zine provides guidance on stepping up more structured community groups, HLOCs and respite to subvert the Western modalities of therapy, intensive outpatient programs and even inpatient care. Even if your mental health mutual aid practice never goes this deep, I hope these ideas will inspire your creativity in supporting the people around you and your community more broadly. One of the core parts of my broader mutual aid work is supporting organizers and caregivers - usually individually or through small gatherings. And I am thinking about how to layer some of these tools and ideas into my work, esp for folks who may be in a more destabilizing crisis. . Whatever other work you may be engaged in, please consider how you can build or expand the mental health support you wrapped around other activities. . Because again we keep us safe, heard and cared for. 🖤🖤🖤 . . . Credit: This amazing zine comes from @embracing.ambiguity and has been reformatted for IG by @imperfectactivista. Do go to the link in @embracing.ambiguity for more zines. Also consider following @mutual_aid_social_therapy (referenced in this zine) for similar topics. . . . #wekeepussafe #collectiveliberation #mutualaid #communitycare".

Pëtr Kropotkin Mutual Aid A Factor of Evolution 1902

Peter Kropotkin took on social Darwinism, casting evolution in a cooperative light and laying the groundwork for mutual aid

Research suggests that when we make a decision that takes into account other people's preferences, we feel a sense of reward or pleasure.

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"As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support vulnerable members of their communities. This survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutua

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Our communities must rely on each other to survive and thrive. Mutual aid is critical for us to resist, care for each other, and build power. After Donald

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To get the most out of mutual aid, we ought to create participatory commons in which everyone can contribute and there is no fundamental division between organizers and beneficiaries.

Care is a fundamentally relational, reciprocal practice & we were never meant to care for ourselves

To hell w/ Middle-Classist organizing + Start with Mutual Aid

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Weaving Indigenous wisdom and ancestral community care practices with modern economic perspectives.

Dean Spade Mutual Aid Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) 2020

Mutual aid is rooted in Black and Indigenous resistance to state violence. We cannot allow white organizers, non-profits, and philanthropists to co-opt our teachings in a time of panic.

Mutual aid is inherently anti-authoritarian, demonstrating how we can organize human activity without coercion.

Agency’s Ryan Only caught up with Indigenous anarchist Klee Benally to discuss his work with Kinlani Mutual Aid and other projects. Klee has an extensive background in radical media work including producing films and founding the media action groups Outta Your Backpack Media and Indigenous Action. D