Giving & Receiving
Recipients of Reparations:
In the spirit of the newest Community Agreement in the Done for DiDi - White Labor Collective, we follow Black Leadership.
With specific guidance from DiDi Delgado and other Black MaGes*. Our main priority is offering items and services to Black community leaders, organizers, educators and activists, especially those who are already doing reparations work. Our goal is to support their efforts and cast a wider net to find the items and services they need.
Members will also have the opportunity to offer items based on what we are accepting at this time.
If you are interested in being a recipient of items and services through Decolonize Abundance please see here. You may also fill out our contact form or send an email to info@decolonizeabundance.com.
In gift economies, relationships and social "capital" are invaluable. Within Done for DiDi, and now Decolonize Abundance, we practice community care and expect white members to work on building relationships with their own local Black leadership, the Black and brown MaGes who educate and guide them in online spaces as well as with their fellow white folks committed to reparations work.
*MaGes definition: Marginalized Genders
Who Can Give?
Of course our goal is to promote reparations from white people especially those who are privileged enough to be able to offer to Black people who want them. We also believe everyone truly has something to give. If not a material item, then time or services are ways to expand your reparations offerings.
Decolonize Abundance is also a platform to expand our thought process of reparations beyond Black and white people. Not only do we see non-Black POC asking how they can help Black communities but for some the equity gap is much larger in many ways. The idea of Reparational Equity* allows our network to welcome gifts from non-Black people of color as a way to create equity and combat anti-Blackness within our own communities.
*We define reparational equity as the act of attempting to redistribute wealth towards equitable levels with the most needed and necessary wealth given to Black & brown MaGes.
How white and non-Black people can pay reparations, even if Congress never figures it out
Photo by Marcos Oliveira on Unsplash