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Forthcoming

Building Parallel Systems

A field guide to building the care systems our communities actually need.

Drawn from years of essays and organizing, Building Parallel Systems lays out the Community Welfare System: how to build structures of care alongside the ones failing us. Rooted in Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farm Cooperative, the Black Panther Party's survival programs, Ella Baker, Mariame Kaba and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Zedé writes for 4,300+ readers on Substack and a community of 43,000 on Instagram, and the Community Welfare System worksheets have been downloaded more than 1,000 times. Agents, publishers and press: zede@seedsworthsowing.org

Published

Coming spring 2027

Publisher

Nonfiction

Coming spring 2027.

Early chapters on Substack

Honored by and spoken at

  • Black Lives Matter Dreamers & Disruptors Award, 2026

  • Women's Foundation of Minnesota Rest Up Award, 2023

  • North American School for Organizers

  • Black Digital Renaissance

  • Black Lives Matter Dreamers & Disruptors Award, 2026

  • Women's Foundation of Minnesota Rest Up Award, 2023

  • North American School for Organizers

  • Black Digital Renaissance

The newsletter

Essays on building care that lasts.

Mutual aid, movement accountability and the Community Welfare System, sent to 4,300+ readers on Substack. Free to read, with paid essays for those who can support the work.

Zedé Harut

Strategist, writer and creator of the Community Welfare System. Building parallel systems of care in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Zedé

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© 2026 Zedé Harut. All rights reserved.

© 2026 Zedé Harut. All rights reserved.