Gatherings 

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Sick Comrade is experimenting with hosting an open community space for our community of sick comrades in Berlin. Once a month for the next three months, we will host an online call where we’ll facilitate a social space for sharing our current challenges and exchanging mutual aid requests and community knowledge specific to Berlin.

Dates:
Monday April 27th at 5:30 pm
Wednesday May 20th at 5:30 pm
Sunday June 28th at 4:00 pm

Info:
-The meetings will be in spoken English and two hours long. If this is a communication barrier or you have other access needs, please mention it in your email and we will do our best to accomodate.
-To participate, please sign up by sending an email to sickcomrade@proton.me
-We will choose participants on first come, first serve basis and have room for 15 people per session
-Please only sign up for one of the sessions for now

Access:
-Captions will be running
-We will read the chat out loud
-Comfort prioritised
-Come as you are
-Short break in the middle
-One of us will be focusing on access and you can message us at any time

Looking forward to gathering with you!

Buddy project

Light white/pink color with the shadows of trees and leaves and big black text that reads "Call a crip. Breaking the isolation / Being in Solidarity. Sign up to get paired with a sick comrade" There is a grey flip phone in the bottom right corner.
The same background and the text: "Sick Comrade Collective is pairing sickos to check in on each other, form friendships, exchange tips and be in solidarity"

Call A Crip – A Sick Comrade Buddy Project 

As one response to the sick comrade survey we sent our recently over our social media and mailing list (thank you so much to all who contributed!) we are launching a project to pair sickos with fellow sickos. This is for you if you’re chronically sick, mad, mentally ill, or disabled. (If you are asking yourself if you are sick enough, you probably are). Join from anywhere. 

We know that it is our connections with one another that allow for our survival. There are so many barriers to social connection for chronically sick and disabled people. But we know that community is necessary and keeps us safe.

Capitalism and ableism are set on alienating ourselves from each other. We hope to put a dent in the loneliness.

After you fill out the form, we will pair you with a buddy over email and you can decide how to connect. Our intention with this is to create connections of solidarity and support, but you can decide in whcih ways you engage (for example email, text, call, video, letters) and for how long.

Being a buddy could look like

– sharing tips on accessing care

– just checking in and offering copying strategies

– talking about shared hobbies or politics

– exchanging about the struggles of ableism 

– anything else 

form: tinyurl.com/call-a-crip

 — AFTER A FIRST ROUND OF PAIRING OVER 300 PEOPLE WITH A BUDDY, WE HAVE PAUSED THE BUDDY PROJECT FOR NOW —