I’m reading a book called “Mutual Aid” by Dean Spade. A project like this is exactly what the book recognizes as a good mutual aid project!
The sad news as that the end of this project with mired with almost every cause the book outlines as the downfall of most good mutual aid projects.
I hope this project can eventually be turned back around and salvaged into something more helpful for more people in a more sustainable and long term timescale.
Yeah, except my experience, it was in a team speak server, smoking cigarettes over a game of unreal or quake 3 instead of a 3" diameter cigar over a game of chess. Spiritually and effectively the same as in those old biographies though.
For reference, this was at a midsized state university in the south in the early 2010s