May, Wednesday 21, 2025

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87641302038

In the current global context of polycrises, development aid funding cuts, and political climate of deliberately induced chaos and confusion, large population sectors, social justice movements, and, more gravely, marginalized communities at the interstices and crevices where systems of power start dismantling are recurrently put on survival mode of constantly seeking and competing for resources.

How do we step out of survival mode if our survival responses are rooted in competition? How do we aim to build more transformational –rather than transactional– partnerships that can better resist the context’s’ pull towards division and multidirectional animosity? These questions will guide this session’s conversation on how mutualism and mechanisms of mutual aid can be a way out of that loop.

Intentional trust-building can facilitate correlative accountability and nourish a creative disruption of contrived scarcity. FRIDA|The Young Feminist Fund and Ecuadorian journalist collective La Periodica showcase this through their ways of working that resist narratives of competition and movement fragmentation despite constricting contexts.