Hi there, I’m Cori, director of The Caregiver Space. I’ve served as a caregiver in several capacities over the years, to family and friends, and now I run our peer support programs.

Why subscribe?

The newsletter is not just a roundup of the articles on our website or the conversation in our private Facebook groups or a recap of our posts on social media. It’s totally unique.

The newsletter is less about practical tips and more about the big picture. I spent three years traveling around North America, spending time with care workers and mutual aid organizations before relocating to Europe. I’m connecting with care workers, researchers, institutional decision makers, and policy makers around the world. I’m digging into both mainstream publications, academic research, and artwork inspired by care work. I’m also talking to a lot of strangers on the street and on the bus, which is where I learn some of the most interesting things.

Maybe you don’t want more emails in your inbox. You can read the posts any time you want in our archives or stay up to date with your RSS reader, with no need to subscribe.

About The Caregiver Space

The Caregiver Space is an independent nonprofit based in NYC, led and run by current, former, and future care workers. We were founded to create a space for people who are often left out of the conversation on caregiving: the LGBTQIA+ community, nontraditional families, sex workers, PWUD, home health aides, and PCAs. We acknowledge that people providing care are just as likely to have mental and physical disabilities as anyone else, which they may in turn be receiving care for.

This is a community of people who aspire to be empathetic, generous, understanding, and patient — to the people we support, to each other, and to ourselves.

We don’t care how many hours you put in or how long you’ve been doing it. If supporting someone in your life is (was or will soon be) on your mind every day, you belong here.

Who’s behind this?

We're here because we needed a space that was safe for us

Thankfully, there are a lot more caregiving organizations and much more support than when Adrienne founded The Caregiver Space. The things that make us unique — and keep us relevant — are also the reasons you might not want to subscribe.

I'm a queer millennial whose search results are mostly about how I moved from the US to Canada for political reasons. My care work experience is wrapped up in conversations about polyamory, accessing healthcare without insurance, mental health, substance abuse, and intersectionality.

Adrienne has led the sort of life where I regularly nag her about the status of her memoir. She's best known for hosting The Grube Tube after her husband, Steve, died. She navigated an intense caregiving situation when her husband and her mother-in-law were both terminally ill, as well as having been a long-distance caregiver for her mother.

Our former community manager, Bob, was a military veteran who took care of his wife, Annie for several years. The story of Bob and Annie is a true love story, but life is complicated, cancer is a terrible disease, and his writing was 'too negative' for other sites to be willing to publish. I know not everyone who lives in the midwest is nice, but Bob was. He put up with us as persnickety New Yorkers. Bob passed away and his work is continued by our team of volunteer moderators.

What you get by subscribing

Participating in our communities, reading our original content, and accessing our database of resources is all open to all. Subscribing is simply a way to donate to The Caregiver Space, which is tax deductible as a US nonprofit (EIN 46-2784507).

Subscribing through Substack is a way to provide monthly or annual donations. If you’d like to make a one-time donation, you can do that through our website.

The Caregiver Space is an independent mutual aid organization and it costs nearly $100k a year to keep it running. If you’re able to provide us with financial support and find the community helpful, we would greatly appreciate your help.

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