And the average donation was $68, which is not something many people know.”
And by the end of our Covid-specific food-security operation, we’d raised and redistributed $1.3 million. By the end of 2020, she says, “We had supported 23,000 people during those first seven months with a week’s worth of groceries. It started with a few flyers - which called on her Bed-Stuy neighbors to “stay together and keep each other safe and be connected as a community,” and also included a join link to her Bed-Stuy Strong Slack - and snowballed into an organic form of mutual-aid organizing, where people worked together to provide for one another within Bed-Stuy. “What grew out of that anxiety-spiral-meets-moment-of-clarity was I built this online Slack network that was sort of a neighborhood-based mutual-aid network,” she says.
So, she took a writing break, looked at the burgeoning threat of Covid-19, and immersed herself in the needs she predicted were on the horizon as the pandemic altered everyone’s reality. In February 2020, Sarah Thankam Mathews was struggling to write a novel freelancing wasn’t going so great, either.
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