We Take Care of We
We believe that folks subjected to racial and gendered oppression already carry everything they need to become powerful, visionary abolitionist entrepreneurs. What’s often missing is the structural support to begin.
Healing from the violence of poverty and theft takes time, money, and care—resources that are often made scarce when systems aren’t built with you in mind/against you. That’s exactly why We Take Care Of We (WTCW) exists: to meet that gap with real, tangible support.
We know healing can’t happen in isolation. It happens in community. And community is where our abundance lies.
Below, you’ll find programs and resources designed to support your financial healing, grow your community, and help you build sovereignty on your own terms.
Thank you for being here—and for believing in this work.
Survival may be where the journey starts, but thriving has always been the goal.
Our North Star
WTCW aims to create a world where folks subjected to racial and gendered oppression thrive—where financial freedom, care, and community are the foundation, not the exception.
Our Map To Get There
We Take Care Works (WTCW) exists to interrupt cycles of economic violence and nurture new models of thriving beyond corporate racial capitalism for folks subjected by racial and gendered violence.
This initiative is designed to support folks in their journey toward financial freedom and self-determined in(ter)dependence. There are many ways to do this, and the way WTCW does this is by supporting abolitionist entrepreneurs: we offer tools, resources, and community rooted in healing, financial empowerment, and structural care.
We believe that folks subjected to racial and gendered oppression are the best abolitionist entrepreneurs that could exist.
What is an abolitionist entrepreneur?
An abolitionist entrepreneur is someone who builds a business not just to profit, but to dismantle systems of oppression and create new structures rooted in care, liberation, and community.
They don’t replicate capitalism’s extractive logic, they actively refuse it.
An abolitionist entrepreneur:
Prioritizes people over profit, and relationships over transactions
Builds offerings that are in service to collective healing and freedom
Uses their work to redistribute resources, disrupt exploitation, and challenge carceral logics (punishment, disposability, control)
Grounds their decisions in ethics, sustainability, and dignity
Understands that how we make money matters as much as how we spend it
Practices accountability, slowness, and consent in how they grow
Sees business as a tool for worldbuilding—not escape, nor domination
It’s not just about making a living.
It’s about making a life that reflects the liberated world we’re dreaming of.
Why support folks impacted by racial and gendered based violence become abolitionist entrepreneurs?
We believe that folks subjected to racial and gendered oppression make the most powerful abolitionist entrepreneurs:
We are already world-builders. Survival has required us to imagine and create alternatives to systems that harm us.
We innovate under constraint. We know how to stretch limited resources and build from scarcity with brilliance and care.
We center collective care. Our lived experience teaches them that thriving is a communal act, not an individual hustle.
We reject extraction. Having been exploited by systems, we are naturally inclined toward models rooted in mutual aid, sustainability, and reciprocity.
We hold radical imagination. Marginalization cultivates the ability to envision what doesn’t yet exist—because the status quo has never served us.
We practice resilience and adaptation. Every pivot in an oppressive system has sharpened our capacity to respond creatively and strategically.
We are already practicing abolition. In how we love, organize, care, and resist—long before we even had the words (or build the structures) for it.
We have been innovating under pressure for generations—finding ways to survive, care for each other, and imagine beyond the systems that were never made for us. Abolitionist entrepreneurship isn’t about climbing a capitalist ladder; it’s about creating alternatives to systems of extraction, punishment, and exclusion. And who better to do that than those who’ve already had to build lives in the cracks of those very systems?
We understand the value of community care over competition, interdependence over individualism, and sustainability over exploitation. We know what it means to live with dignity in a world that tries to deny it—and we carry a vision for something better, because our survival has always required creativity, resilience, and collective imagination.
Abolitionist entrepreneurship asks us to build new worlds rooted in justice, care, and freedom.
Those of us who’ve been most denied those things often have the clearest vision of what they should feel like.
Financial Safety & Growth
We offer resources that support people in building stability, agency, and autonomy in their relationship to money, skills and talents.
Safety Fund
Flexible, no-strings-attached financial support that you can spend as you see fit to help with anything you need. No pay back policy, no policing around why you need this money or how you should spend it (we believe you!). Very few things can be built without financial safety in this world, and so the safety fund answers this inherent need.
Community Financial Coaching
We offer group coaching in which folks can share challenges as well as brainstorm ways to find solutions in community.
Entrepreneurship Webinars & Workshops
We offer online webinars & workshops for folks to learn about topics like:
Sustainable, non-extractive business models
Building businesses that include mutual aid strategies for redistributing resources and support our communities
Non-exploitative marketing,
Pricing that reflect our politics and values
Tools to navigate the vulnerability that comes with more visibility,
As well as burnout, survival work, and financial trauma
Healing Resources
We believe that building a business is one of the most spiritual experiences a person can undertake. It asks us to believe in ourselves, even when the world has told us not to. It brings us face-to-face with our deepest wounds—around self-worth, receiving, visibility, and being seen in our full power.
For those of us who’ve been pushed to the margins, entrepreneurship becomes more than just a means of survival. It becomes a path of reclamation, healing, and creative liberation.
This is why our offerings include practices and teachings that not only tend to the wounds inflicted by capitalism and racialized gender violence, but also support the tender, vulnerable opening that building a business requires.
That includes:
Reflections or workshops on internalized scarcity, shame, or overgiving
Somatic practices for resourcing, regulation, and safety
Spaces to process and unlearn survival-based hustle and hyper-independence
Community Infrastructure
Building a business can also feel lonely and isolating. We create spaces and structures that help people feel less alone, access peer support, and practice new ways of relating and organizing. In WTCW, we (un)learn, rewire, heal, fail and grow together. We offer:
Listening or check-in circles for abolitionist entrepreneurs
Skillshares or community learning spaces
A collective space (Discord) to build community
Accountability pods or partnerships stay in alignment and feel less isolated
Language/tools for conflict repair, boundary setting, and liberatory collaboration
Online collection of resources to support folks in building entrepreneurial creative genius and building stability and community
Support
Us
By supporting us, you are directly supporting the Safety Fund. This fund aims to provide direct assistance to folks subjected to racial and gendered oppression.
Every quarter, we will be donating funds to folks who need it.
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FAQs
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We will ask folks to fill a form that is non policing (we will never require folks to justify the reasons why they need financial support). We know how much the process of asking for help can be dehumanizing, when operated by the state. Each quarter, we will allocate funds based on the forms we received. We don’t expect to make “fair” choices, every one deserves care and support. We hope however that this fund will alleviate stress from our community members who need it most.
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Grants are 500 euros/person and made on a rolling basis until funds run out.
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You can apply here.