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When community care efforts develop unsustainable dynamics

My neighborhood started a mutual aid network during the pandemic and it was beautiful but now some people are burning out while others are taking more than they give and we're all too polite to name what's happening directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Mutual aid without clear agreements about reciprocity often recreates the very inequities it seeks to address.

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