I've been reporting a story on ad hoc, grassroots, mutual aid groups getting food to people who need it right now & aren't getting it from food banks — it is an incredible, essential service right now, chances are high there's a group in your area doing this quiet work every day
This is not to detract in any way from food banks who've had the infrastructure in place—& been doing the work—for years. But food banks are overwhelmed. People are falling through the cracks. These community fridges, mutual aid groups, & senior meal deliveries are finding them
If you're able: donate to your local bank. Then google your neighborhood, your city, your county, and "mutual aid," "COVID aid," "community fridge." You will find something, and you will find a very easy way to Venmo / PayPal / donate.
Participating in mutual aid feels revelatory. It feels like resistance to all the shitty postures capitalism forces us to assume. I really cannot recommend it enough.

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26 Nov
The federal govt has refused to act & 26 million don't have enough to eat. I spent the week talking to ad hoc orgs & mutual aid groups filling in the ever-widening gaps in the social safety net. They are *remarkable* & I hope you'll share their stories:

msnbc.com/opinion/millio…
In South Philly, Syona Arora helped launch 2 community fridges:

“Every day, the fridge empties out. Every day, it fills back up again. We hold ourselves to a high standard with what goes in the fridge, & we have a high level of respect for each other"

instagram.com/phlcommunityfr…
In W Montana, Flathead Rez Community Action is serving 100+ families a week from all over:

“We don’t ask tribal affiliation. I’d say more than half of the families we serve aren’t tribal. We also don’t ask for income verification."

ucc-jic.com/wp-content/upl…
Read 10 tweets
25 Nov
"Women experience this mandate to feed others at the same time that they absorb the message that women are more valued, & valuable, when they are beautiful, especially when they are also thin"

I talked to @EmilyContois about gender, power, Thanksgiving:

annehelen.substack.com/p/food-work
@EmilyContois "The work of idealized womanhood lies at this complex intersection of feeding others out of love, while denying our own appetites to feed ourselves so we’ll be thin and considered lovable."

annehelen.substack.com/p/food-work
When I first happened on some really troubling Intermittent Fasting threads on FB I wanted to write about it then thought nope gonna talk to someone who’s actually thought through this stuff ImageImageImage
Read 6 tweets
23 Nov
There are so many things wrong with this Jeep commercial but let's start with the fact that that's a douche Jeep and everyone knows you can't keep a vehicle with your homestate plates in NYC for more than a week without getting ticketed

So she's working in the hospital in New York (where everyone is wearing masks) and then travels across the country, in what is assumed to be the present, to surprise her family? In a place with a higher infection rate than NYC?
DOES SHE HAVE A SILVER FOX BOYFRIEND

or

IS THAT HER HOT DAD?????

Montana questions
Read 4 tweets
22 Nov
Wrote about health insurance, student loans, job lock, and the debt plot that keeps us tethered to and "grateful" for shitty jobs:

annehelen.substack.com/p/job-lock-and…
Here is the great piece on "the health insurance plot" that got me thinking about some of these ideas:

electricliterature.com/the-health-ins…
And here is a typically excellent @AnnieLowrey piece on the case for student debt jubilee:

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Read 6 tweets
14 Nov
South Dakota, population 885k, reported 55 COVID deaths today. Current active cases: 18,747.

argusleader.com/story/news/202…
40% of American still planning to attend Thanksgiving with 10+ people; 30% not planning to mask or ask others to mask:

upi.com/Health_News/20…
Read 9 tweets
14 Nov
I need some toasty gloves. Not ski gloves, not running gloves, not those $1 gloves from Target. Not driving gloves or leather or suede. But probably involve wool outside and fleece inside? And I can order them online? If you have found these beauties, let me know
Another problem is that I have the hands of someone who is 4'10" and need XS capacity, please tell me someone else also has this need
I am 5'5" I just have my Grandmother's very petite hands!
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