Fallout Club provides creative workshops and events for parents and carers

The Fallout Club was created by HBL creative director Ray Malone. 

After becoming a single parent, Ray was aware of the lack of support for single mothers. So, she decided to create a group to provide creative workshops to parents and promote discussion about the benefits of a Universal Basic Income for artists and single parents. 

Fallout Club events support the wellbeing of both parents and children through participatory workshops.

 

We support socially engaged arts and wellbeing practise that encourages social advocacy and activism. 

We recognises the isolation and financial exclusion of women (trans and non-binary inclusive) with caring responsibilities. 

Basic Income House Workshop

The majority of single parent families, for which, 90% are single mothers, are raising their children in poverty. A basic income would address the gender imbalance and raise more parents and their children out of poverty. 

The Fallout Club believe that parents perform a crucial job in raising the next generation, and we need to provide people with guaranteed housing and a basic income.

The Basic Income House workshop gives space to reflect on the symptoms and causes of power relations that affect our lived experience. The workshop invites participants to imagine a better world through discussion, craft and embroidery.

WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by Sarah Jaffe

Nuclear Fallout is the first chapter of Sarah Jaffe’s book Work Won’t Love You Back. The chapter describes Ray Malone’s journey to motherhood, the Fallout Club workshops and the history and politics of care.

In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labour, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labour of love" myth -- the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries -- from the unpaid intern, to the overworked nurse, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete -- Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. 
As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.

Read more about Work Won’t Love You Back.