What is Horizontal Mutual Aid?
Mutual aid is the practice of caring for one another: from each according to their abilities, to each according to need. It is not transactional nor hierarchical nor shaming, but instead life-affirming and reciprocal. It is not charity, nor saviorism, nor a shelter for capital. It is an assertion of self-determination and collective power. By the community and for the community, with consent.
The practice of making sure that our neighbors’ basic needs are met through our grocery delivery work is anti-capitalist love work. It begins with survival, but it does not end until we have a world where everyone’s basic needs are always met.
Let’s take care of each other. By us for us.
Hãy chăm sóc lẫn nhau. Bởi chúng mình cho chúng mình.
እርስ በርሳችን እንከባከብ። በኛ ለኛ።
Vamos a cuidarnos unes a otres. Por nosotres, para nosotres.
守望相助。
ነንባዕልትና ንተሓባሐብ። በባዕልትና ንባዕልትና።
Request Grocery Delivery
If you would like food or other supplies dropped off at your front door, please use this form. We are prioritizing folks who are sick, disabled, quarantined without pay, elderly, undocumented, queer, Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color — including those displaced from Seattle to the nearby areas.
If you are able to do the form in English, that will help ease the load on our translators!
Offer Support by Delivering Groceries
We are coordinating food and supply drop offs to people’s front doors. Please use this form if you would like to help make deliveries. Thank you!!
If you are able to do the form in English, that will help ease the load on our translators!
COVID-19 Survival Fund
Our love for each other is greater than capitalism’s lack of effective planning. In Seattle, we have created a COVID19 Mutual Aid group, which aims to organize material support. Immediately we are providing grocery and supply deliveries.
We are preparing to expand this to running errands, dog walking, childcare, caregiving, and mental/emotional support among people impacted by the pandemic. We are acting alongside those globally to show that our communities take care of each other and we also take care of ourselves.
We can’t allow greed to guide our actions. We need healing love and compassion for one another.
Latest Posts from Horizontal Mutual Aid
Covid-19 Mutual Aid – Seattle: Community Report, January 2021
Who We Are Covid-19 Mutual Aid – Seattle is a completely grassroots, volunteer-run formation predominantly co-led by queer femmes of color who live our lives within the communities who we are working to support. Our practice of mutual aid is connected to struggle, to resisting white supremacy, to supporting BIPOC youth protesters on the streets…
Contribute to the COVID-10 Survival Fund for the People
This fund is for supporting black, indigenous, people of color, disabled, undocumented, and LGBTQI folks who are bearing the brunt of this social crisis and are self-organizing in King and Pierce Counties. Please if you can, continue to donate to our fundraiser and pls share: http://tinyurl.com/covid19fund
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