Is your local Buy Nothing group being renamed Gifting With Integrity? cliomiso has a rundown of the drama surrounding the gifting economy
a photo of a bunch of white hands together in a circle, which further inflamed the situation. Members across the Buy Nothing community also described experiencing racism and other kinds of bias in their day to day in the groups. Some argued that many of Buy Nothing’s rules — enforced “civility” and the hierarchical model of admins — were reinforcing racist and classist dominance in a space that was supposed to be about community and mutual support.
in a post explaining these changes, “we were able to see our own white fragility and internalized racism in new ways.”about why their original guideline to avoid abbreviations like “ISO” was actually “elitist and ableist” since they might be easier to use for those “who have difficulty typing, who are developmentally challenged, who use digital readers because they’re visually impaired.
Andrea Schwalb, a longtime Buy Nothing admin, and other vocal dissenters created a Facebook group called “Gifting With Integrity — OG Buy Nothing Support Team” to discuss their issues. But Schwalb and another Gifting With Integrity admin, Rachel Anderson, allege they were punished for speaking out. “One by one, we got deleted from Buy Nothing’s Admin Hub,” Anderson said.
Clark and Rockefeller said their reporting was limited and targeted only to these training groups. “Other organizations can build their own training and support systems for their own local gift economy movements, but they need to do that with their own names [and] brands,” they wrote. “Claiming to be Buy Nothing training and support, then directing people to a separate website that is not part of Buy Nothing is an example of trademark infringement.
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