Reading Rhythms Club

"Mutual aid isn’t charity: it’s a form of organizing where people get to create new systems of care and generosity so we can survive.” —Dean Spade

How does mutual aid in practice look like? What does it mean to those practising it? How do conceptions of mutual aid differ within groups? How are decisions being made and responsibilities distributed in volunteer-based efforts?

We welcome you on Friday July 19th from 18.30 to 21.30 at the Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats, Banierstraat 62, a free-to-use, volunteer-run workshop space and community garden in Rotterdam Noord. We will be reading a zine collectively assembled by the volunteers of the DHZ with excerpts of texts that relate to different conceptions of mutual aid, accompanied by reflections from each volunteer on the work they do at DHZ. During our conversation, we will map out different ideas, interests, and values linking to mutual aid, as well as the difficulties and joys of its practice.

The Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats is a space of collective learning and community-building through making and reciprocal generosity, aid and interest. Visitors to the workshop come to grow or make things, and fix their own bikes with tools and spare parts that have been donated. Centred around Learning Together and anti-judgement, previous knowledge of bikes or tools are not at all necessary and the volunteers are always there to work together with visitors.

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