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All things inclusive of and adjacent to co-owning and building an anticapitalist, worker cooperative microagency with a team. Thoughts and experiments in community-oriented business and beyond.

Soft Body Personal

The spicier, less filtered, more personal sibling to my writing on and adjacent to cooperative business. Opt in or out depending on how you feel about: gay rom com books and fiction writing, neurodivergence, autism, disability, chronic illness, trashy and deeply problematic reality television as delightful medicine, hiking long or short distances in nature because it makes snacks taste better, and queering gender, relationships, and systems.

Rest Day Creative

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Casting spells for the futures we want, to create present realities

Conjuring something out of nothing is our birthright and our spellbook for equitable change.

Sep 17, 2024 • Iris Rankin

Leveraging empathy, and not being afraid to look

Gauging our relationships with enoughness and each other to bridge the distance of privilege and understanding.

Jul 3, 2024 • Iris Rankin

Values only have value if there's agency

Questioning whose security we treat like it matters (and whose we don't), plus a snapshot of our values as an anticapitalist worker cooperative.

Jun 4, 2024 • Iris Rankin

Human wellbeing as a priority — creating a microcosm of reality

Accidentally creating the change you think someone else is going to do, and looking behind-the-scenes of one worker cooperative.

May 21, 2024 • Iris Rankin

Soft Animal Bodies

Exploring one friend group's experiments in building an anticapitalist cooperative microagency together, musings and commiseration on community survival and care, and thoughts on living a gay little life in a non-binary, autistic body, brain, and heart.