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Unpaid Labor in Buy Nothing
- Buy Nothing communities rely heavily on volunteer women admins who sometimes work over 40 unpaid hours weekly.
- This unpaid labor can feel dehumanizing and taken advantage of, revealing gendered inequities in community care work.
Redlining in Group Divisions
- Splitting Buy Nothing groups to keep size manageable often reinforces racial and socioeconomic divides due to historic redlining.
- This has caused outrage and led to some groups shutting down and admins quitting in protest.
Racism Challenges Within Groups
- Racist posts and reactions were tolerated in some Buy Nothing groups, with people of color sometimes removed for calling out incivility.
- This created toxic environments where admins of color faced attacks for addressing racism.