NEW GUIDELINES FOR @SPOONIEUNIPROJECT
March 24th, 2021
*Effective immediately AND subject to change at anytime you MUST read before putting in a mutual aid application for April onwards, before you message us, before you follow our page, and before you request labor from us*
We will only put up mutual aid requests on our feed for those we have verified and who have filled out the application in our bio. We will only do this for four people per month as this gives us more room to crowdfund and promote longer for these folks so they can get more funds rather than posting them for one day then never interacting with that post again. 1 week for each person we will be raising funds for and we strictly prioritize Black/Indigenous disabled low-income folks. We will close our mutual aid application in our bio after we have exceeded this amount. Right now it is closed until April, or more accurately we are not taking any new requests till April and don’t worry we will make an announcement for all things like this and not leave y'all in the dark.
HOWEVER, we will post and share things to our stories at no limit whatsoever. Our stories work differently from our feed as they require less effort to post, repost, and share on.
YOU MUST go through the verification process stated on the mutual aid application in order for us to post for you. You must not only send in a pic or video to confirm your identity but you must also send receipts (of course with sensitive information crossed out) of rent bills, hotel bills, food receipts, hospital bill, med bill, etc.. We need some other form of information like this stating a price, that has your name on it, etc. as we nearly got scammed in the past with even just the images and videos being sent in. For those we have already posted for and worked with, no need to send in anything again.
We do not have DM’s open to those we do not follow and we will not interact with our DM’s consistently, especially if we are getting an influx of messages. Please do not spam our inbox as that will overwhelm us easily and make us not check on them for a while. We will respond to as many messages as we can per day but we cannot guarantee we will be quick on this depending upon if people respect our boundaries. Please only send a couple messages to us a day if you can. If anything send us images and not long paragraphs please.
Our Patreon recipients are at max capacity and we cannot accept any more folks to receive funds from it until we have gotten more funds from our community members. We can only realistically give funds to three people with our monthly contributions so please do not ask us to add you when we do not have the capacity and do not want to give $5 among 4 people and would rather give larger amounts amongst a smaller group. We hope to grow the fund as time goes on, and therefore our number of recipients.
We are made up of only two long-term members and 4 short term volunteers right now so our capacity is better than before, but it is also limited and dependent upon our personal lives and how we are handling them. Please respect this and allow us time to rest, take breaks, and take hiatuses so we can serve you all better.
Do not tag us in photos without our permission please.
If you are non-black, non-indigenous, upper-middle class, affluent, have a stable income and housing, are able-bodied, neurotypical, have citizenships status, and/or cis-het and you follow us you must be interacting with at least some of our posts every now and then by giving funds when you can and/or boosting and sharing with your respective networks. We do not want our followers being just numbers.We need you to be in community with us when you can (we know spoons aren’t plentiful some days) and in community with those we serve otherwise please don’t follow us. At the very least we encourage ALL followers to boost, interact, and share with friends to get more attention for those we serve and raise funds for.
We go by crip time and our time, we are not machines. We will not continuously produce and overexert ourselves because not only can that jeopardize our health but if we are not at our best, or even our semi-best, this project will cease to exist as we will not be able to do anything with it when burnt out and fully drained.
If you want to volunteer or even join the project for any period of time you can comment so on any of our posts, email us, or DM us if we follow you.
We do not aim to be strangers to those we serve and build community with. If we are crowdfunding for you and helping get resources and funds for you we will try to get to know each other on a personal basis somewhat to make this worth not only more engaging, but more meaningful.
We are also an educational collective, or at least we try to be lol, and when we are focusing more on workshops, our book club things, podcasts, and more, we will slow down mutual aid efforts to make sure we are not overexerting ourselves and also in order to keep a balance.
We can change our structure, the way we operate, and how we maintain this space at any time, but of course we will notify everyone to be transparent and honest about where we are at. We will not go on hiatus without notifying anyone, but when we do go on small-long hiatuses and breaks, we will not be on our social media much or at all but we will find alternative methods for you to communicate with us but when we are on breaks you MUST only communicate with us if it is super urgent and/or you are on of our recipients for the Patreon funds or someone we posted for on our feed.