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Minna Kim, in conversation with host Desire Wandan, introduces us to the world of Collective Care Pods, small online or in-person support groups that meet regularly over an extended period to provide emotional support and encourage the mutual growth of its participants. With roots stretching back to 2014 and the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, Care Pods proliferated during the pandemic when many people began turning to each other for survival and support. “Isolation and loneliness are a worldwide epidemic,” says Kim. “Modernity—colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy—is working really hard to keep us isolated, but we know how to be together. It’s an ancestral instinct of survival.”
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Minna Kim, in conversation with host Desire Wandan, introduces us to the world of Collective Care Pods, small online or in-person support groups that meet regularly over an extended period to provide emotional support and encourage the mutual growth of its participants. With roots stretching back to 2014 and the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, Care Pods proliferated during the pandemic when many people began turning to each other for survival and support. “Isolation and loneliness are a worldwide epidemic,” says Kim. “Modernity—colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy—is working really hard to keep us isolated, but we know how to be together. It’s an ancestral instinct of survival.”