Sunday Morning Is Loving, or SMIL (like smile) for short (but you don’t have to smile), is a mutual aid network within the Sunday Morning Hair community itself. The intent it is to offer a way for us to connect and engage in meaningful and practical action to support each other by offering our skills and sharing our needs. As your hairdresser, I happen to know we are a talented, kind, and diversely resourced group. This felt like an opportunity to create a safer space outside of social media to share support within our real life community of amazing people.
Here’s how it works.
If you have an “offering” or a “need” that you would like to share, email it to me at sundaymorninghair@gmail.com, text me at 323-251-2848, or DM me on Instagram @sundaymorninghair. I’ll reply to you directly and we can coordinate on how you’d like your offering or need to be shared. No info will be shared without consent. I compile everything here on the website for our SMIL community to access.
Btw, just a quick note to say that not every person’s role will be to make an “offering” in this model, and that is AOK. An offering can look like sharing a great book you read or a cool event you are a part of. It can look like volunteering as an offering of time, or sharing a volunteer opportunity. Even sharing a “need” is actually an offering because doing so liberates others by giving permission to ask for help too. Part of mutual aid being mutual and not charity is that you get to take it sometimes too! I hope you all know that it doesn’t matter whether your participation in this experiment is big or small, or even within this space at all.
The goal of this model is simply to put out there a tool to connect for anyone that could use it. Inspired by the Social Change Ecosystem Map developed by Deepa Iyer of the Building Movement Project, linked here.
Here’s to more imagining things and trying them. Looking forward to being in loving mutual aid action with you all.
