Take a piece of paper and write all the things people need.
Generate as many ideas as possible.
Be as specific as possible, drill down to things you can see and
touch.
Stations and banks
Count off to form groups
Introduce yourself to your group; appoint one person to take notes
and one person to be the spokesperson
Discuss the following: Swanson (2014) describes
milk stations (pp. 162, 164) and milk banks (e.g., pp. 171, 182,
195–196) as two different ways US society has made it possible for
nursing mothers to circulate and distribute breastmilk. Consider the
things that everyone needs but are unequally distributed among those
who need them. Do you see any other examples of station-like and
bank-like approaches to redistribution of these resources? Do you see
evidence of stations for other valued things turning into banks? Is
the reverse possible, that is, can “banked” goods be brought back to
the “station” approach? What is it like to be a user of a “station” or
a “bank” when you need something other people have?
References
Swanson, Kara W. 2014. “Feminine Banks and the Milk of Human
Kindness.” In Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood,
Milk, and Sperm in Modern America, 159–97. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674369481.