Help My Flying University launch digital clubs that bring people together to learn, create, and stay grounded during difficult times.
My Flying University (MFU) is a Bloomington-based nonprofit creating spaces for learning, connection, and resistance through education. As knowledge, history, and truth come under increasing attack, MFU is building community-centered alternatives where people can learn together, stay grounded, and support one another.
We’re currently seeking volunteers to host, co-host, or help support a new set of digital clubs focused on shared learning, creative expression, critical thinking, and community connection. These clubs are designed to help participants engage with banned ideas, develop their voices, practice responding to disinformation, explore history through play, and sustain one another while paying attention to the world.
- Finding Your Voice is a digital creative club focused on storytelling as a tool for advocacy and social change. Each week introduces a new storytelling approach, from writing and visual art to sound, media, and movement.
- Improv for Difficult Discussions is a club that allows people to experiment with both reasonable and silly responses in challenging conversations.
- Breadcrumbs is an action team that is focused on creating and distributing deradicalization resources, counter-narrative content, and empathy-first outreach materials.
- The Nervous System is a support and skill-sharing club for anxious activists.
- Spirits of Dissent is a cocktail club where each drink is inspired by a resistance movement, revolutionary figure, or banned substance from history, and is accompanied by a short presentation.
- The Graveyard Shift is a history-focused group that explores local cemeteries, obituaries, and death records to uncover erased or forgotten stories.
- The Unofficial Curriculum is a tabletop roleplaying campaign about clandestine education, shared risk, and quiet defiance under authoritarian rule. Inspired by the flying universities of Poland, the game focuses on collaboration rather than conquest.
- The Disinformation Clinic is a hands-on action group where participants diagnose misleading claims, develop effective responses, and take those strategies into real conversations and public spaces.
- The Crafting and Catastrophizing Club is a low-pressure digital hangout where people work on crafts or quiet creative projects while talking about the state of things. Bring knitting, drawing, collage, embroidery, puzzles, or anything that keeps your hands busy. Conversation is optional, dark humor is welcome, and no one is expected to fix anything.
Volunteers may help facilitate discussions or activities, co-host sessions, support logistics or moderation, or help create a welcoming and thoughtful environment for participants. Roles are flexible and can be shared, and MFU provides guidance, structure, and support for all club facilitators.
You can sign up here, or, if you prefer to remain anonymous, you can complete a volunteer application on our website, www.myflyinguniversity.org. Please email info@myflyinguniversity.org if you have any questions or need any assistance.
