call me a conspiracy theorist—but i don’t think that everything that is fucked up with with the korman institution stems from one violently hateful woman.
they didn’t all agree to have her on the board and just sort of figure out on accident OH, whoops, you are really a violently hateful woman! the fact that ari fletcher had a lot to do with hiring her is a HUUUUUUGE red flag to me, and signals towards a lot of the problems with 501c3s that people like andrea smith and Incite! have pointed to in their critiques of non-profits in the US.
there is Money to be Made in MANY non-profit industries. there are *garGANtuan* amounts of money to make around cancer research. there is ALSO a huge “in” to setting the moral agenda around specific issues—like: immigration, like: the de-politicization of cancer in the form of “you just magically get cancer” rather than “environmental pollution is directly linked to breast cancer, as such the best most efficient strategy to “curing” breast cancer is to clean up environmental dioxins and coal burning plants—[(also notice: how the pink ribbon campaign *Really* started and then take a look at how it’s used to fundraise in ways that are actually potentially contributing to breast cancer (whats in that pink dye going on everything from guns to boxes?)]
yes, eat the jesus out of this woman if you must—but don’t forget to see the forest with the tree.
in what ways can we start to hold 501c3s accountable? in what ways can we fund *community driven* research rather than 501c3s? is it possible to set up our own health networks? what can our own health networks do and what can’t they do? what do we *need* 501c3s for? and how can we hold them accountable to *OUR* needs instead of the other way around?
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milkeemountainmama: call me a conspiracy theorist—but i don’t think that everything that is fucked...
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