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Joy Repair · All Work

Everything
We Make

The science and praxis of love — organized into four bodies of work. Five most recent from each.

Journal

Journal

Long-form essays on joy, repair, and the structures that get in the way.

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01We Need to Stop Caring for Each Other
Sunday Report
02The Economy Runs on Love
Theory
03Trick Him Back
Narrative
04One Neighbor. One Institution.
Field Notes
05The New Plantation
Dispatch

Tools

Tools

Instruments for communities doing the actual work of repair.

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01Neighborhood Joy
Assessment
02Neighborhood Census
Mapping
03Triple Organizing
Framework
04Volunteer MOU
Agreement
05Thriver Pack
Resource

Data & Maps

Narrative Arts

Signal dispatches, civic data, and the geography of liberation.

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01QOLiberation — The Love Party Manifesto
Manifesto
02Signal Reports
Dispatches
03State Liberation Index
Data
04Joy Liberation Heatmap
Map
05Civic Apparatus
Analysis

MLP

Make Love Public

The editors' pieces, the daily, and the economy of care we are building.

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01We Need to Stop Caring for Each Other
Daily · Marc
02QOLiberation — The Love Party Manifesto
Daily · Marc
03No Loitering, No Noise, No Childhood
Carmen Saint
04Attendance Without Transfer
Evelyn Vale
05The City Arrived Before Its People
Lucien North
06Why Does Joining In Feel So Lonely?
June Bell
07When the Elders Leave, the Neighborhood Forgets How to Hold People
Lucien North
08One Block. One Meal. The Smallest Unit of Repair
Carmen Saint
09Why We Built Cities Where Nobody Walks Anywhere
Lucien North
10The Sidewalk Still Lets Us Belong
Isaiah Reed
11The Rooms We Deleted Because They Let People Linger
June Bell
12The Archive of Rooms That No Longer Exist
June Bell
13The Archive of Rooms That No Longer Exist
Carmen Saint
14What Fathers Carry in Silence
Carmen Saint
15Today’s Emotional Weather Report: Low Trust, Patchy Warmth
June Bell
16They Archived the Block While Taking It Apart
June Bell
17Shame Was the First Smart Device
June Bell
18We Keep Calling It Burnout, Anxiety, Polarization. Often It Is Loneliness.
Lucien North
19The Sidewalk Is Where We Practice Noticing Each Other
June Bell
20Please Tell Us About the Worst Thing That Ever Happened to You
June Bell
21The Meeting That Replaced the Movement
Carmen Saint
22The Smile on the Poster, the Laugh in the Hallway
Isaiah Reed
23Why Did We Build a World Where Children Are Always in the Way?
June Bell
24Repair Is What We Owe Each Other After the Damage Has Been Normalized
Ana Sol
25The Input Harvest
Evelyn Vale
26What Fathers Carry in Silence
Evelyn Vale
27Everyone Is Invited to Speak Into the Mute Button
Ana Sol
28When They Say Alignment, They Mean Obedience
Carmen Saint
29The Emotional Weather Report Nobody Publishes
Lucien North
30Trust Does Not Come in a Grant Cycle
Carmen Saint
31When Participation Theater Replaced Authorship
Lucien North
32Why We Built Cities Where Nobody Walks Anywhere
Carmen Saint
33Belonging Was a Line Item
Ana Sol
34The Nonprofit That Documented the Community It Displaced
Evelyn Vale
35Shame Was the First Chain
Eli Mercer
36Belonging Was a Public Utility Until We Privatized It
Lucien North
37The Archive of Rooms That No Longer Exist
Lucien North
38The Archive Ate the Block
Carmen Saint
39They Keep Asking Us to Speak
Isaiah Reed
40The Meeting That Replaced the Movement
June Bell
41One Block. One Meal. The Smallest Unit of Repair
Evelyn Vale
42Philanthropy and the Harvesting of Human Feeling
Lucien North
43They Keep Asking Us to Speak Into the Same Dead Microphone
Ana Sol
44You Cannot Install Trust Like a Vending Machine
June Bell
45The Price of the Story
Isaiah Reed
46The Fee We Pay to Show Up
Eli Mercer
47Why We Built Cities Where Nobody Walks Anywhere
Isaiah Reed
48Shame Is the First Chain
Eli Mercer
49What Fathers Carry in Silence
Carmen Saint
50When Participation Theater Replaced Authorship
Evelyn Vale
51We Built a City That Refuses to Be Touched
Carmen Saint
52When Participation Theater Replaced Authorship
Carmen Saint

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CI
Care Infrastructure
Capacity + attribution
RG
Recognition Gap
Expertise visibility
ER
Economic Return
Profit vs community benefit
HC
Historical Context
Systemic patterns + lineage

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