Comrades, I have several things I must convey regarding my life and the trajectory of my mutual aid project. I want to be transparent about a shift in how my support system is structured.
I’ve been working on a voluntary project to support the mutual aid community on social media platforms through my Mutual Aid Hub and sharing my views through essays, analysis, etc. on Knowledge Hub, while juggling freelance work to ensure I can still contribute to mutual aid through financial means and cover my monthly essentials.
Hustle vs. Legacy
However, I can no longer manage both freelance work and digital advocacy at the same time. This is because the rhythms of survival hustle are fundamentally incompatible with the demands of building a lasting global legacy:
- Freelance demands short-term, transactional energy. This is the exact energy required for continuous advocacy and long-term vision building.
- The requirement for constant context switching and deadline pressure drains the deep focus necessary for systemic groundwork.
- Hustling for survival prevents the long-term strategic thinking necessary for a sustainable global ecosystem meant to outlive our generation.
A Framework for Mutual Support
As I’ve decided to focus my full energy on continuous advocacy and long-term legacy building, beginning with the groundwork of a digital ecosystem, I’ve created ways to support my work beyond what I’ve detailed on wrzky.com/aid through Ko-fi & Buy Me a Coffee shops and Liberapay:
- Support Package that covers monthly essentials and bills
It includes groceries, utilities, and other basic needs.
It is only available in a single quantity each month, for only as long as monthly support doesn’t cover those essentials. - Tier membership at $5 a month on both as a monthly support because I need a stable, sustainable way to cover my monthly essentials.
The $5 tier membership above is the same as the one offered on Patreon at Solidarity tier, which doesn’t have early access to my articles and my complete archive on Patreon. - Liberapay
And I’d like to provide more information on Liberapay.
This platform isn’t new, if $5 a month is too high, the platform provides tiered support;
• Symbolic — US$0.01 per week – US$0.04 per month – US$0.52 per year
• Medium — US$1.00 per week – US$4.33 per month – US$52.00 per year
• Large — US$5.00 per week – US$21.67 per month – US$260.00 per year
• Maximum — US$100.00 per week – US$433.33 per month – US$5,200.00 per year
I am aware of what this implies, yet I have witnessed that such a humane system is achievable on a small scale, even within empire-run platforms, when built using a humane framework. This direction is meant to outlive me, so the energy must be invested without fragmentation. I hope the support system I’ve created for myself can sustain this.
Thank you for choosing to hold this with me. Join the movement and help sustain this vision for the future. 🙂↕️💜
— Wanda
