New Georgia Feminist Merch: Hurricane Disaster Relief
Dear Georgia Feminists,
The communities impacted by Hurricane Helene have weighed so heavy on our hearts. As we hold our breaths in advance of Milton making landfall in Florida, we know that grassroots, mutual aid efforts will continually be needed to help save our neighbors and help entire communities rebuild.
We encourage our fellow feminists who are able to help by:
1. Donating directly to mutual aid relief efforts
2. DMing us on socials with any resources so that we can continue to boost outlets for folks to help
3. Forwarding this newsletter to a friend to encourage them to do the same
Additionally, we have opened our shop with select designs for a short window — from now through October 15th — and have committed to donate 90% of all profits to Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, “a grassroots disaster relief network based on the principles of solidarity, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action.” Like us, this organization is a nonprofit acutely aware of how problematic the nonprofit industrial complex can be, while also recognizing the usefulness of nonprofits as an infrastructure that can do some good. As Uzma so well put it in an earlier newsletter, “as a community, [The Georgia Feminist] want[s] to consider how we can maintain our 501c3 status to facilitate fundraisers for issues we care about deeply while also offering ways to engage in and contribute to mutual aid…Mutual aid networks already exist, and all we do is support them where we can.”
We spoke with our friends of Mutual Aid Athens, doing amazing work in a place all of us once called home, and ultimately decided to direct our profits from these sales to Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. Given their many years of organizing experience and community building, with testimony from our MAA friends of its members successfully mobilizing post-Helene, we believe that this organization will be able to direct funds where they are needed most.
For this collection, we are offering t-shirts — both short and long sleeved — and mugs. A new “y’all means all” design also has kids’ sizing available for all the little feminists in your lives. During our last merch fundraiser for reproductive justice organizations in the South, we also heard from a lot of you in other Southern states outside of Georgia who wanted some representation. So just for all y’all, we offered new designs for Florida, Alabama, Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. And, of course, we gave everyone a new Georgia Feminist version of the same design.
We hope that all of you are safe and, if you are able, can help in some way — big or small — to keep others safe, too.
All our love,
The Georgia Feminist
