Cousin Collective

In order to work as a community through COVID-19, my cousins and I formed a homeschool co-op for our children. The children started this school year wanted to learn to read and start a youtube channel. At this point in the year, they are now registering our cousin group as a non-profit, constructing and planning a community garden, applying for grants, learning to code, and tackling increasingly complicated issues around designing our space to best serve us. Here are some of our communal and individual works. All of us were initially drawn together by being Bettye Jean’s grand and great-grandchildren, but we have now expanded to serve and include our broader community (Even if they are just non-mutual cousins right now because our COVID bubble has to stay small).