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Serendipity & Buy Nothing

This is a serendipitous story born out of a Buy Nothing Project friendship in the growing gift economy world and the dynamics of 2020.

DiDi Delgado has been involved with the Buy Nothing Project since 2017 as a local member in the Buy Nothing Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA and then later in Albany, NY.  DiDi was nominated as a new Buy Nothing Project local admin after a series of racist posts arose within the Albany, NY group in the fall of 2019.

Katherine has been involved with Buy Nothing since 2015 when she started a Buy Nothing Project group in Charlottesville, VA.  Katherine has long been an admin for her local groups and has been on various teams within the project developing and curating content and policies as well as coaching local admins through various equity issues. Katherine is also now on the BuyNothingApp Advisory Board which launches at the end of summer 2021. 

In November 2019, DiDi and Katherine were connected with incredible timing, just as the Buy Nothing Project Equity Team was being formed.  They hit it off and became fast friends.  Together they worked on the BNP Equity Team to create the Buy Nothing Project Community Agreement.  DiDi and Katherine spoke about  problematic scenarios from their local Buy Nothing Project groups and were in sync with what needed improvements from their firsthand experiences as leaders in BNP and anti-racism.

From their discussions, a new idea was born in the gift economy world with a focus on creating a space where people give on the basis of reparations to Black organizers, Black families, and Black communities. Especially in these times, they agreed that now more than ever, a new path needed to be paved in gift economy communities via mutual aid, reparations, and advocacy groups.

Decolonize Abundance was born a year and a half later as DiDi and Katherine’s newest reparations project.