It has been roughly a year since I started volunteering at a mental health charity. This is a reflection on what motivated me to do so, and how these motivations have developed over the course of the past year.
Volunteers’ Week
06 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in PhD Life
1 to 7 June is Volunteers’ Week in the UK. While I find volunteering to be quite a radical form of collectivism and solidarity, I am nevertheless quite circumspect about the ways in which voluntary work gets co-opted as unpaid labour in capitalism as a way of externalising costs.