CULTIVATING COMMUNAL CARE AND COLLECTIVE FLOURISHING
MISSION
Margins resources Black women in Alabama by building infrastructures of care—the food, housing, childcare, and direct support systems that make dignity, stability, and collective flourishing possible. We envision an Alabama where Black women and their families live with stability, dignity, and abundance—where safe housing, nourishing food, reliable childcare, and strong community support are not privileges, but the everyday conditions that make rest, joy, and collective flourishing possible.
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INTERSECTIONS
Love as political practice, dignity as non-negotiable, solidarity as survival strategy. The most radical politics come from those most marginalized. For Margins, this provides foundational language for understanding why infrastructures of care must address food, housing, healthcare, childcare, and safety together—these needs are not separate but interlocking, and meeting them is both practical survival work and radical political practice.
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DIGNITY
Community and mutuality point to survival as a collective project, not an individual burden. We reject the myth that poverty is a personal failing and instead organize resources as shared wealth that belongs to the community. Anchored by dignity and autonomy, Margins' programs center choice and self-determination. We trust that people know what they need and honor their decisions without judgment, paperwork, or paternalistic requirements.
LOVE IN PRAXIS
The consistent practice of "showing up" with resources powerfully pivots ideologies of individualism and scarcity to that of communal abundance. These are not charity services. Charity individualizes poverty and creates dependency. Infrastructures of care recognize that survival is collective, that stability requires sustained support not one-time interventions, and that Black women deserve resources without surveillance, shame, or strings attached. Together, our programs form living systems of support that transform crisis into stability and open space for families to thrive.
COLLECTIVE CARE
By resourcing infrastructures of care, we do more than help families make it through the day—we demonstrate that another way of living is already here, built in the labor and love of Black women who refuse abandonment. Donate today to support conditions for rest, joy, and collective flourishing.
