Balik Bayanihan Box: Rebuilding Resource Sharing and Rerooting Regenerative Relational Resilience

Sharing is both a simple concept and can be incredibly complex when it comes to the who, what, when, where, why, and how’s of an exchange.  The abundance we carry collectively is powerful, healing, and when shared, can shift our society to build up solutions in times of pandemic, climate change, and ongoing internalized to global oppressions.  Sharing is a necessary part of interdependency that can also cross fine lines of where savior and poverty mentality, disempowerment, and modern day colonization can be perpetuated.  Maria will share a few personal experiences of effective, as well as problematic, forms of resource sharing.  We will journey together from post typhoon Yolanda communities in the Philippines, to the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock, to transition time as a returning diaspora, and other stories into the time of Covid – 19.  We are in a historic moment of mutual aid groups and other…