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We’re going to make it through the next four years—if we make it—through a commitment to mutual aid. I suspect I’ll be writing about this a lot more. There’s a long history and a few definitions of exactly what mutual aid means (start here). My personal conception is likely not original, but at least it’s short: a group of people passing around the same five dollars to whoever needs it most.
In that spirit, I’ll be celebrating my first $1,000 in annual subscription money (that’s 14 people! Thank you!) by contributing $100 to Assigned Media, a publication dedicated to covering and debunking anti-trans propaganda. You can make your own donation here.
I will pay forward 10 percent of whatever this newsletter brings in to other journalists and projects also working to create a vibrant media ecosystem outside the siloed and captured outlets that helped create the Trump era. Suggestions welcome!
It’s not that I don’t need the money—it’s that everyone needs it.
So, by subscribing to this newsletter you can support my work directly and others’ work indirectly.
Of course, you always can throw cash just my way (I promise to subscribe to good stuff with that dough!) by subscribing or becoming a patron of either of my podcasts! There’s my new podcast, “Another Day withe Ana Marie Cox,” a cooperative venture where profits will be shared by our four-person production team. “Space the Nation” is my pod with newsletterer/polisci prof Dan Drezner—a science-fiction and political science chat on its fourth year. It is a independent cooperative venture as well!
Latest things:
“The Threat of Trumpism Is Real. So Is the Need for Rest.” A medium-read on self-care:
“In this environment, to call for self-care feels like bringing a sheet mask to a gunfight…But the urgency of this moment demands inaction as much as it does action.”
The first episode of “Another Day” features Parker Molloy! Yes, it’s about recent unfortunate events, but it’s not a rehash or an autopsy. Mainly, we talk about what we’ve learned about trauma in our own lives and—as I won’t get tired of pointing out—how those lessons apply to our politics right now.
Over at Space the Nation, Dan Drezner and I are doing a Battlestar Galactica re-watch as part of our own post-election self-care. Those episodes are for patrons only and I can’t think of a better reason to throw us some cash — the first one is among my favorite conversations we’ve ever had on the show. And there’s video!
My recovery writing workshop will be back in January. More on that soon.
Take care of yourselves and, if you can, take care of someone else.
Ana