How to Start a Mask Bloc Zine

This guide was created to help those who are interested in starting a mask bloc. Creating a mutual aid organization can feel like a daunting task. There’s a lot to consider: where to start, how to approach building a bloc in a way that centers the most marginalized, and how to actually help those whom you want to help. 

The mask blocs who created this zine tackled all of these questions and came together to pool resources, share knowledge, and work together across experiences, across countries, and across the world. We’ve included tips that we’ve gathered along the way from folks doing similar work. Some of us have worked in other mutual aid spaces and taken that knowledge with us. 

While this zine was primarily worked on, and written by, mask blocs that exist in the United States, we hope that those elsewhere will find it helpful, too. Where we are able, we have done our best to include information that may be relevant to other countries or noted where something may only apply to the US specifically. 

If you want to donate for us to be able to continue this work our cashapp is $MaskupPittsburgh 

or go to COVID Action Map - Google My Maps to find a mask bloc near you to donate to!