I wrote something for them about how we need every single person to join in the fight to care for each other and resist our opponents’ nightmare world, and how to get started.
New Article: The Summer’s Hottest Trend is Resisting State Repression
Video: Conversation with Mia Birdsong
I had a great time talking with the brilliant Mia Birdsong in Berkeley in March, you can watch the conversation here. Many thanks to Deborah Freedman Lustig, Mel Chen and everyone at UC Berkeley who worked on this event.
“Dean Spade’s Love Letter to the Gay, Horny, and Confused” — a review in Electric Lit
Many thanks to Malavika Kannan for reading and for this sweet engagement with the book!
First Review of Love in a F*cked Up World from an Imprisoned Reader
Many thanks to Xandan Gulley, a trans writer locked up in Texas, who just published a review of Love in a F*cked Up World on the Study & Struggle website.
You can write to Xandan through Securus: Britney Gulley / ID#01601283 / Texas Department of Criminal Justice / Murray Unit.
Video: Conversation with Kai Cheng Thom
Was delighted to have this conversation with Kai Cheng Thom, organized by Firestorm Books. Sadly, there was a problem with the recording and the ASL interpreters are not included in the recording, but the captions were corrected and should be accurate.
New Article in Feeld’s A F_cking Magazine
Mutual Aid 101 Workshop
Shareable recently hosted me for a Mutual Aid 101 workshop and posted the video publicly.
Radio Interview with OutFM about Trump’s Attacks on Trans People
I recently got to talk to my old friend Bob Lederer about the current attacks on trans people coming from new Trump administration. You can listen to the interview here.
In our first segment, Out-FM’s Bob Lederer interviews prominent trans liberation fighter Dean Spade about the larger nefarious logic behind Trump’s anti-trans attacks, and the important principles to follow when mounting resistance to them. This includes the anticipatory obedience of several hospitals which have discontinued gender-affirming care for young people — even before any binding federal rules have forbidden that. Fortunately, as he notes, mass protests for these actions have already occurred at the New York and DC hospitals in question. In Part 2, we discussed some of the themes of his new book, Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together. In particular, we talked about the ways of building lasting social-change organizations based on a commitment to respectfully and lovingly working through differences, while we all stay focused on our common goals. Then we invited listener calls.
Interview with Laura Flanders & Friends
Had a great conversation with Laura about this f*cked up time we’re living in and how we can have each other’s backs, care for each other, and raise hell together.
New Podcast Interview: Mutual Aid Podcast
I was thrilled to be the first guest on the new Mutual Aid Podcast. Very fun conversation with people who are deeply engaged with mutual aid work and coming from non-US locations. You can listen here: