Vernacular Institutions

From Erin Kissane's The Work At Hand

Vernacular institutions as I am thinking of them have three essential qualities:

• They emerge from highly specific local conditions.
• They prioritize needs on the ground over those of centralized powers or abstractions.
• They are more useful than they are legible. (Some of that usefulness is maintained under the protection of illegibility.)

I'm thinking a lot about vernacular institutions lately as we watch the more mainstream healthcare institutions crumble on trans health.

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