My sister and I are both working poor and we take turns helping each other with medical bills — she covers my prescriptions some months, I help with her specialist visits — but we never talk about the shame we both feel about needing this from each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
Mutual aid becomes loaded with unspoken feelings of inadequacy and dependence.
“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.