Khameer Kidia
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first heard Jul 2026
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One of the ways that I saw um mutual aid in action was through this collective that um I have been involved with called um Harari Quiz.
And during the pandemic, queer people were really, really struggling in Zimbabwe because many of them who were able to, you know, do jobs and live in the city lost their livelihood.
And were forced to move back in with their families, often in rural areas or in, you know, into conservative nuclear families where they experienced harassment and violence and.
Harari Quiz asked queer people, what is it that you need?
And queer people said we need money.
We need
transport to be able to get out of the home every day.
We need to be able to pay our rent so that we don't have to live in those places where we're feeling threatened and harassed.
Um and
They started a GoFundMe that collected cash and gave people a $50 unconditional cash transfer.
Um and they combined that by, you know, driving to people's homes, delivering this money, making sure they were safe.
You know, I think that is that is a type of mutual aid, um, to think of things really in terms of community need and
Cash transfers in particular have been a little bit.
You know, credible evidence if you you wanna if you wanna do the whole thing, evidence based thing, there is a strong evidence base for for especially unconditional cash transfers improving people's mental health when they're living in conditions that are precarious and especially in terms of economic precarity.
In terms of thinking about the way colonialism has kind of like, you know, filtered down to people in Zimbabwe even today, you know, I think a lot about the type of colonialism that the British did in Zimbabwe, which was, to be precise, settler colonialism.
Um and settler colonialism is is a particular kind of colonialism.
Where British people, um, or you know, any colonizing power decide that they want to actually live on the very land that indigenous people have.
And that process is an inherently, physically very violent process, right?
It requires forced migration, ethnic cleansing, genocide.
You know, white settlers moved indigenous people onto these arid settlements.
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