3 December 2021
By Nebula
In south Chicago majority femme neighbors of color involved in various aspects of anti-DV work or experience over the years have been setting up an anti-DV collective called Nebula.
We are many months away from being able to take on work outside of our current activities, to collaborate with many groups, or to accept new members.
The purpose of this writing is to simply let the region know such an effort exists, to find people doing similar things to eventually learn and collaborate with, and to hopefully spur some people to take the initiative to do something similar to what we are doing in their locality since initiative is important and because we know that real solutions to the enormity of the problems we face of Authority and Abuse in the home will only be found as a result of collaboration of collectives across the region.
For now we shall share a little bit about us in the form of our mission statement and leave you with best wishes and hopes that you can find people you trust to begin the long process of building something similar.
Nebula Mission Statement
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We are survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, former NPIC workers, care workers, and neighbors who are passionate about the safety, well-being, and autonomy of survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and IPV. We have seen and experienced firsthand how the NPIC, the government, the police, and the Prison Industrial Complex have failed survivors by further traumatizing and leading to displacement without real solutions.
We aim to find real solutions that provide a healing environment and center self-determined autonomy to support survivors who do not neatly fit the “perfect survivor narrative” that is often imposed on survivors by the NPIC and other institutions. We seek to support and help aid those who are often Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Poor, Houseless, Criminalized, HIV+, sex workers, migrants, LGBTQIA & Trans, and other oppressed people not mentioned who due to these systematic barriers, amongst others, are not receiving the help they need to support them and their agency.
We are not a charity, but a collective of caring individuals across genders, races, and other intersecting identities who through solidarity aim to provide direct action and direct solutions to counter DV, especially during a housing crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic that still greatly afflicts our communities.
Nebula
nebulahomies [at] gmail [dot] com
South Chicago
November 22nd 2021