CHMA, now consisting of two thousand members, knew their food relief was unsustainable, prompting the organization to think about longer-term strategies: decentralizing into a series of food pods. A proposal was adapted from the Neighborhood Solidarity Cooperative Grocery Project, looking to partner with Soul Fire Farm, East New York, Farms Rise, Root Farm, and others.

Mia Mingus, a trainer for transformative justice, claims that we need another word for 'community,' a more quantifiable one: "Pods." MAMAS has recently developed protocols of transformative justice to its existing pod system. They're currently bringing in external transformative justice practitioners to facilitate the accountability process and train other pod leaders in MAMAS for future instances.

How can we continue landscapes of care, long past the pandemic? Organizing care pods are just one tactic. As Adrienne Maree Brown once noted, all organizing is science fiction.