🌐 Collaborators
Below are some mutual aid groups, artists, healers, neighborhood projects, and tea shops which we've worked with and are inspired by.
🎟️ Members receive discounts at these businesses (more info)
Projects & Places
Alcove Cinema (microcinema)
Circuit (bike delivery collective)
Eldert Street Garden (community garden)
Field Meridians (ecological programming + radio station)
Future Space (community art space)
Gender Fail (independent publisher)
Green Oasis (community garden)
grouphug (local zine)
Herban Cura (herbal workshops)
Khilna Collective (fiber arts & activism)
Local Seed Savers (seed swaps)
Loisaida (community center)
Long Distance Reads (book swaps & reviews)
Mayday Space (community center)
Mil Mundos (multilingual coop bookstore & community space)
Municipal Theater (community theater)
Nonbinarian Book Bike (queer bookstore)
NYC Nature Drawing Club (free drawing club)
Our Temenos (event space & landscaping firm)
PULP (art collective & workshops)
Ridgewood Commons (community space)
Sunnyday Collective (art market)
Systems of Release (electronic music magazine)
Telos Haus (event venue & design studio)
The Other Alamanac (re-imagned farmer's almanac) 🎟️
The Student Kitchen (youth cooking programs)
Worn Not Torn (clothing swaps)
Worlds Through Minds (global artist community)
Mutual Aid
BK Jail Support (abolitionist, anti-jail)
Club A (anarchist)
Collective Focus (artist-led)
Riders4Rights (abolitionist)
Tea
Anima Mundi (herbal apothecary) 🎟️
Dae Tea (Taiwanese teas) 🎟️
Eighty (tea & culture magazine) 🎟️
Grand Tea & Imports (Chinese teas) 🎟️
Leafhopper (tea newsletter) 🎟️
The Ridge Café (loose leaf & spices) 🎟️
Unfurl (online tea community)
Individuals
Adin Vashi (engineer & writer)
Andrea Sofía (musician & poet)
Aimee (princess)
Arnie (illustrator)
Braden Kirkpatrick (meditation guide & musician)
Esther Shin (illustrator & tattoo artist)
Jake Breiter (illustrator)
Jayshawn Lee (typewriter poet)
John Grund (illustrator & ceramicist)
Juice Makes (ceramicist & crafter)
Juno Tatarka (gamemaker)
LEEWAY (musician & DJ)
Lilian Wu (ceramicist)
Madeline Brubaker (artist & educator)
Mae Nagusky (audiomaker)
Naqiya Motiwalla (writer & fiber artist)
Nick Deveau (photographer & podcaster)
Noah Sai (photographer)
Paige Kloss (landworker & writer)
s4tandoll (illustrator & DJ)
Sabina Sethi Unni (public theater artist)
Sally Chen (illustrator)
Samson Ceramics (ceramicist)
Sarah Rohani Drepaul (filmmaker & poet)
Sitanya Face (drag queen & poet)
Serena Kleeman (herbalist & educator)
Slug Home (ceramicist)
Sophia Livecchi (illustrator)
Syd Loude (writer & yoga instructor)
Taylor Maude Love (doula & healer)
Tim Chacko (tea practitioner)
Val Yang (illustrator)
Zack Young (performer & filmmaker)
ziggy bee (crafter & tinkerer)
Misc.
Projects we have not worked with, but admire!
New York Tea Society (tea club & house)
One River Tea (tea cooperative)
Third Place Zine (publication)
School of Radical Attention (nonprofit)
Tea Arts & Culture (community events)
Secret Riso Club (radical print studio)
Looking for more? Check out organize.directory & Social Fabric for more community projects and beyond.