This is How We Cope
A card game designed to build empathy & equity
We’re not all dealt a fair hand under global capitalism. In a system driven by profit, fairness has taken a back seat.
Many residents in inner-city neighborhoods face ongoing battles for fairness and justice. The echoes of past injustices like segregation, redlining policies, and disinvestment in these communities, still linger today. This impacts residents’ living conditions and access to quality education and employment opportunities. When combined with the War on Drugs era — a period marked by the disproportionate targeting of people of color — these factors perpetuate cycles of poverty and criminalization that are challenging to break.
“Persistent poverty as the consequence of historically developed economic and political relations… poverty and inequality as an effect of social categorisation and identity” (Mosse, 2010).
Imagine being a single parent in one of these neighborhoods and, under the constant strain of needing to make ends meet, you have to decide between immediate needs like paying for food, and long-term investments like furthering your own education for higher-paying jobs. The stress from perpetual economic insecurity not only hampers one’s ability to plan for the future but also to act toward a future free from poverty.
“Poverty causes stress…
