Vesper Moore's post, including this article by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu vehemently supported by community members:

' We need more peer support and community response networks. We need to put power back into the hands of the people. We need the people most impacted to not only give input but to run and be responsible for the inception of all system services. We need those who are marginalized to take the lead in each community not out of expectation or tokenization but humanization.

“Replace the cops with mental health workers!” is a really well-intentioned statement, but the current mental health system is also a white-dominated, violent, coercive, and unaccountable structure that disproportionately harms people of color.” — Morgan M. Page '

https://medium.com/@stefkaufman/we-dont-need-cops-to-become-social-workers-we-need-peer-support-b8e6c4ffe87a

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2667570800186841&id=100008018411161

Intuitive Flow outpost: https://facebook.com/groups/222813511653516/?ref=share

This morning, I've been describing some challenging (repeating) situations we've found ourselves in.

The deaths of our colleagues are preventable.

The human trafficking we are monitoring is preventable.

I somehow don't think it's ironic at all (?) that often, a way we can prevent these horrible things is also a way we can all feel better most effortlessly.

Survivors of extreme violence, intersectional hardship, protracted trauma, environmental illness, and toxic injury have been putting their lives especially on the line in order to compile the information and materials is that are part of our Intuitive Community Knowledgebase.

When we listen closely and consistently to what they have to say, we have tremendously straightforward solutions to employ immediately.

These solutions are life-saving every single day.

Members of our network are being literally, physically tortured to death each day.

We show up for work anyway.

Most of the people and groups we try to reach are not disabled, but they have very challenging problems that they don't know how to address.

Most of the suffering we are witnessing in abled communities is being caused by the problem of not noticing the survivors who have solved those problems already.

All of our problems are solved much more easily when we join one another in consistent, caring community.

All of our problems are solved much more easily when we believe together that we can collaborate to create resilient income streams.

All of our problems are solved much more easily when we heed and honor the lived expertise of those who have survived greatest severity.

All of our problems are solved much more easily when we remember that the most marginalized members of our communities, and people who are undeservedly excluded from community, are all individuals who are most crucially needed, who must crucially be supported, in order for every member of any community to be safe.

We have been using these precepts and others to survive horrific experiences every day.

This is part of what has been painstakingly dedicated into our knowledgebase.

How can we share it more widely so that we can all be more safe?

What have we not so far managed to say?

What are the questions that lead us toward finally completing these amazing and necessary survivor-led efforts?

Thank you for reading.