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When community mutual aid becomes unbalanced

Our neighborhood group started a mutual aid network during the pandemic and it was beautiful but now some people do all the work while others just take and we're all too conflict-avoidant to address it directly. The resentment is starting to poison something that used to feel sacred.

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