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A thought network on maintenance, repair, care, and the mundane labor that keeps the world going. Tweets by Lauren Dapena Fraiz and Liliana Coelho
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For all our community members interested in international sustainability policies! 🌏 Check out this upcoming workshop led by our partners at as part of the SRI 2023 Conference in Panama.
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Our intention for holding these sessions is to visibilize that maintenance, care, and repair TAKE TIME. Of course, this time may not work with your schedule so we invite you to dedicate some time, at some regularity, for maintenance.
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We're excited to share that we've decided to continue the Monthly Maintenance Sessions through 2023!
If you'd like to register for one session, or all for the remainder of the year, you can do so here: buff.ly/43LFRTl
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Thanks to all who joined us for our 1st event in the Moving Toward Maintenance series. This one exploring "self maintenance".
You're invited to view the recording & resource document here: themaintainers.org/moving-toward-
Next up, exploring how we "maintain community"!
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Tinker(short) by RCBF is back. It is a programme for teenagers that is run by a repair cafe team. Introduces ideas about home maintenance.
Register here
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI
Hurry up the registration will close 27th April, 2023
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If you have said "no" to something today, we commend you!
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Always such a joy to find one of the @juliacastrov-designed Make Sure to Maintain Thyself cards @The_Maintainers put out. Modeled on a loyalty program, you get yourself a treat after saying no to ten things. You are being loyal to your own needs, and those of your loved ones.
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For those who like our Maintainers Movement Fellows of 2022 are interested in post-growth or degrowth studies, here is a summer school program!
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Summer school alert 
Life after Growth - Can the commons guide us in making sense of work, technology, organisation – and life! – in a post-growth society?
Join us in Greece 06 - 09 Sep 2023.
cosmolocalism.eu/summer-school-
#degrowth #postgrowth
Life after Growth - Can the commons guide us in making sense of work, technology, organisation – and life! – in a post-growth society?
Join us in Greece 06 - 09 Sep 2023.
cosmolocalism.eu/summer-school-
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Still time to register for our 3-Part Event Series highlighting different spheres of maintenance. Up first: maintaining oneself.
THIS Friday, April 7th at 3pm ET.
Register here: buff.ly/3Lk2k3e
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Join The Maintainers network and friends for a 3-Part Event Series highlighting different spheres of maintenance. Learn more & register today: buff.ly/3Lk2k3e
Up first: Maintaining Self with Sarah, Ashley, and Rheanna on April 7th.
Learn more about Rheanna's work here:
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Check out this week's #EmbodyingDegrowth Profile: On Building a Tiny Home, Excerpts from an interview with Maleah Rahaman-Noronha and Ken Mora on July 16th, 2022
By Rheanna Chen
Read and listen here: buff.ly/3kkuyjo
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🗣 LAST CALL FOR APPLICANTS! Apply by tomorrow, March 29th. The Fellows will partner with The Maintainers to advance our vision for a more caring and well-maintained world 🌻
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Join The Maintainers network and friends for a 3-Part Event Series highlighting different spheres of maintenance. Learn more & register today: buff.ly/3Lk2k3e
Up first: Maintaining Self with Sarah, Ashley, and Rheanna on April 7th.
Learn more about Ashley's work here:
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Interested in learning more about the scope of our fellowships? Check out The Maintainers' latest blog post, which describes how we designed fellowships an approach to understand localized practices of maintenance, repair, and care.
themaintainers.org/the-maintainer
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This week's #EmbodyingDegrowth Profile is “Fight against the bullies”, A conversation with David Whiteside of Tennessee River Keeper (buff.ly/3ks0ORB) about the fight for clean water in the Deep South.
By Maximillian Alvarez (). buff.ly/3IpZd6I
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Join The Maintainers network and friends for a 3-Part Event Series highlighting different spheres of maintenance. Learn more & register today: buff.ly/3Lk2k3e
Up first: Maintaining Self with Sarah, Ashley, and Rheanna on April 7th.
Learn more about Sarah’s work here:
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Call for applicants, from all over the world! Take a look at our four different fellowship pathways. Apply by March 29, 2023.
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Join The Maintainers *TODAY* for a monthly, no-cost, DIY maintenance session. We invite you to set aside two hours a month for maintenance.
What needs maintaining in your world?
Join us today by registering here:
eventbrite.com/e/monthly-main
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Check out this week's #EmbodyingDegrowth Profile: Urban Homesteaders, Excerpts from an interview with Choi Chatterjee and Omer Sayeed (buff.ly/3KvwbW3) on August 13, 2022 By Tona Rodriguez-Nikl
Read here: buff.ly/3Z9H300
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS // The 2023 Maintainers Movement Fellow: Maintainers in the Workforce pathway.
This fellowship is in partnership with
Learn more & apply by March 29th!
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We're excited to announce our 2023 3-Part Event Series highlights three different spheres of maintenance, asking: “How do we maintain ourselves? Our communities? Our movements?”.
Up first: Moving Toward Maintenance – Self
Learn more & register here: buff.ly/3Lk2k3e
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS // The 2023 Maintainers Movement Fellow: Maintenance Cultures pathway.
Learn more & apply by March 29th:
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS // The 2023 Maintainers Movement Fellow: Maintaining Localities pathway.
Learn more & apply by March 29th: bit.ly/maintainers-fe
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Check out this week's #EmbodyingDegrowth Profile: To a Super, with Love, Excerpts from an interview with Minireh K. on August 3rd, 2022
By Leila Behjat (.design) and Sam Bennett (@lil_frenchfrie)
Read here: buff.ly/3kirKTT
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS // The 2023 Maintainers Movement Fellow, Maintaining Public Health pathway.
Learn more & apply by March 29th:
themaintainers.org/call-maintaine
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The Open Source Collective is now hiring maintainers! If you have funds in your collective but haven't been able to work for it in a formal capacity we've got you ❤️ We are offering payroll for you to work on your project. Kudos & team for this!
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Check out this week's #EmbodyingDegrowth Profile: On Compassion and Reciprocity, Excerpts from an interview with Aleya Freeman Fraser and Michael Paris on August 9th, 2022 By Rheanna Chen
Read and listen here: buff.ly/3xNLwJT
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We are delighted to announce The Maintainers Movement Fellowship 2023 is now open for applicants🎉 The Fellows will partner with The Maintainers to advance our vision for a more caring and well-maintained world. Apply by March 29th! bit.ly/maintainers-fe
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
Layers: how maintenance often expresses itself
Interconnectedness: Decisions made in the past influence the true cost of maintenance today. Decisions made today will pass on this true cost to the next generation of caretakers.
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Check out this week's #EmbodyingDegrowth Profile: Layers of Time, Excerpts from an interview with Tahereh Holmes (buff.ly/3kp15ER) on July 16th, 2022
By Leila Behjat and @lil_frenchfrie
Read here: buff.ly/41okAy8
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Reporter Rhea Nayyar talks with artist sTo Len about his work and aspirations as the NY Sanitation Department’s current resident artist.
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This week's #EmbodyingDegrowth Profile: “The life of the Earth is our life” by @maximillian_alvis a conversation with farmer, grandfather, & Earth Defender Chili Yazzie about efforts in Navajo Nation to return to traditional farming practices.
Read here: buff.ly/4122wJH
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Welcome to !
"Let's get excited about maintenance!" (NYT, 2017)
nytimes.com/2017/07/22/opi
How tech culture valorizes making at the expense of care and maintenance:
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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One answer is that the only type of maintenance that’s even semi-prestigious in American society is software maintenance.
That is, it's not prestigious to be plumber, mechanic, or electrician.
You can make money, but it doesn't have cultural cachet.
And so maintenance suffers.
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The Norfolk Southern disaster in East Palestine is getting more attention, but almost every explanation is treating it as an isolated incident. It’s not.
There are over 1,000 derailments every year, and soon that number could skyrocket, leading to even more catastrophes. 
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We ❤️ maintenance~
Join us this Friday to spend time maintaining, caring, and repairing that which you love most.
Learn more & register here 💌 eventbrite.com/e/monthly-main
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Check out this week's #EmbodyingDegrowth Profile:
On Creativity and Rest ~ Excerpts from an interview with Tracy Assing () & Gesiye Souza-Okpofabri on July 25th 2022 by Rheanna Chen.
Read and listen here: buff.ly/3RQ4Sre
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What home-maintenance task is on your February to-do list? 👀
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And peruse the project on our website: themaintainers.org/fellowships/em
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Each week this season, we're featuring an interview from the #MaintainersMovementFellowship Embodying Degrowth Project.
Follow us here and on instagram:
instagram.com/themaintainers
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