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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
03Repair Is a Political Act
Eli Mercer
04Why We Built Cities Where Nobody Walks Anywhere
Eli Mercer
05The Nonprofit That Documented the Community It Displaced
Eli Mercer
06Why We Built Cities Where Nobody Walks Anywhere
Evelyn Vale
07The City Was Built Without Its People. The Bill Has Arrived.
Evelyn Vale
08When the Elders Leave, the Neighborhood Forgets Itself
Evelyn Vale
09Belonging Was Not a Mood. It Was a Budget Item.
June Bell
10The Meeting That Replaced the Movement
June Bell
11What They Carry Home in Their Bodies
Ana Sol
12What Fathers Carry in Silence
June Bell
13We Keep Getting Invited to Help Make Things We Are Not Allowed to Make
June Bell
14The Archive of Rooms That No Longer Exist
Ana Sol
15What Dignity Looks Like on One Block
Ana Sol
16The Sidewalk, Still Taking Applications for Public Life
Lucien North
17The Archive of Rooms That No Longer Exist
Lucien North
18The Load That Never Enters the Ledger
Evelyn Vale
19The Unnamed Load
Evelyn Vale
20Trust Does Not Arrive in Bulk
Eli Mercer
21The First Cage Had No Bars
June Bell
22Children and the Public Spaces We Stopped Building for Them
Evelyn Vale
23No Place to Be Small
Carmen Saint
24Shame, the First Chain
Ana Sol
25The Weight That Doesn’t Clock Out
Isaiah Reed
26The Nonprofit That Archived the Block It Helped Empty
Isaiah Reed
27The Nonprofit That Documented the Community It Displaced
Eli Mercer
28One Block. One Meal. The Smallest Unit of Repair
Ana Sol
29The Sidewalk Keeps the Last Vote
Isaiah Reed
30The Meeting That Replaced the Movement
Ana Sol
31The Spill They Call Professionalism
Carmen Saint
32The Emotional Weather Report Nobody Publishes
Lucien North
33The Grant Application Wants a Wound
Isaiah Reed
34Trust Does Not Scale on Command
Evelyn Vale
35The Hidden Invoice of Showing Up
Eli Mercer
36Why Is Every Place Telling Children to Leave?
June Bell
37The Emergency Has a Name
Eli Mercer
38Why Did We Build a World That Keeps Telling Kids to Go Somewhere Else?
June Bell
39The Building Can Give You a Snack. It Cannot Be Glad You Came.
June Bell
40No Loitering, No Noise, No Childhood
Carmen Saint
41Attendance Without Transfer
Evelyn Vale
42The City Arrived Before Its People
Lucien North
43Why Does Joining In Feel So Lonely?
June Bell
44When the Elders Leave, the Neighborhood Forgets How to Hold People
Lucien North
45One Block. One Meal. The Smallest Unit of Repair
Carmen Saint
46Why We Built Cities Where Nobody Walks Anywhere
Lucien North
47The Sidewalk Still Lets Us Belong
Isaiah Reed
48The Rooms We Deleted Because They Let People Linger
June Bell
49The Archive of Rooms That No Longer Exist
June Bell
50The Archive of Rooms That No Longer Exist
Carmen Saint
51What Fathers Carry in Silence
Carmen Saint
52Today’s Emotional Weather Report: Low Trust, Patchy Warmth
June Bell

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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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