This Anarchist Learning Collective Is The Most Practical Mutual Aid Project in America

On any given weekday, a bunch of tech-savvy young queers from around the U.S. log into a Zoom meeting to look for jobs. Or complete passport applications. Or figure out how to leave the country or a region of it that they’re not feeling safe or seen in. Other times, they simply want to hang out with other neurodivergent friends who are trying to survive the collapse of an empire. “The Multiverse is an anarchist learning collective of leftist revolutionary nerds who like to make stuff,” says Liz Howard, a computer science educator and founder of the Multiverse School, an online program that teaches technical literacy and community survival to people who have largely been exploited or ignored by the tech industry.

This Anarchist Learning Collective Is The Most Practical Mutual Aid Project in America. On any given weekday, a bunch of tech-savvy young queers from around the U.S. log into a Zoom meeting to look for jobs. Or complete passport applications. Or figure out how to leave the country or a region of it that they’re not feeling safe or seen in. Other times, they simply want to hang out with other neurodivergent friends who are trying to survive the collapse of an empire. “The Multiverse is an anarchist learning collective of leftist revolutionary nerds who like to make stuff,” says Liz Howard, a computer science educator and founder of the Multiverse School, an online program that teaches technical literacy and community survival to people who have largely been exploited or ignored by the tech industry. The daily job standup, a check-in where...