Trust forms when everyone involved can see what is happening. Where there’s trust, there’s safety, and where there’s safety, creative expression is possible. Only with creativity can we imagine and then create the realities where equitable, mutually beneficial futures are the norm.

No one is more or less deserving to have more or less than we each do, and when we operate from a place of generosity, we have a sense of relief and trust knowing that we are accountable to each other — not from a place of responsibility or obligation, but from a space of collective care. Mutual care makes space for the reality that no person operates on the exact same level every day, and together we don’t need to.

To get somewhere new, we have to give ourselves the opportunity to not know, to guess, to fuck up, to fail — and to play without fear of consequences while we do it. Because living under capitalist structures has realities and constraints we can’t always get around, anticapitalist efforts are inherently experimental. There’s no one right way, only the ways we try to live closer to our values, to our own minds and bodies, and to each other.

When we base our work on systems and processes that prevent burnout and dismantle urgency, we acknowledge realities that already exist and make it possible to actually navigate those human inevitabilities. We create space to live within the work and recognize the humanity of the day-to-day for ourselves and each other. Anything less than that isn’t sustainable, and none of us are expendable. No profit is worth anyone’s pain.

Taking pleasure in what you have is the ultimate expression of enoughness, and enoughness is the antithesis of capitalist growth at all costs. We believe in growth with a purpose, and if that purpose isn’t bringing joy, then what is it for? Play is fundamental not because we’ve arrived somewhere that allows us to, but in spite of the fact that we haven’t.