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Featured Videos
Shit’s Totally FUCKED! What Can We Do?: A Mutual Aid Explainer by Dean Spade and Ciro Carillo
When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability, 2016 Kessler Award Speech
Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back
Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders
News
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:
Conversation with Susan Stryker Hosted by Them
Grateful to Wren Sanders and Them for inviting Susan Stryker and I to this conversation about how to navigate this terrifying moment of the second Trump presidency, including advice for campus activists, reflections on trans history, and more. If you visit the page where they posted about it and scroll down you can find some …
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New Interview with Gender Reveal Podcast
Such a treat to talk to Tuck and Ozzy about my new book, the dangers facing trans people during a second Trump administration, how we fight back and survive, and much more.
Featured Project
Mutual Aid Toolbox
Conditions are already disastrous and getting worse under the new presidential administration. This new Mutual Aid Toolbox is a collection of tools for creating mutual aid projects to help each other survive the brutal realities of poverty, criminalization, immigration enforcement, racism, ablism and violence, and building the world we want to live in where everyone has everything we need. The site has hundreds of projects and tools for starting projects that we need right now.
Mutual aid is a term to describe people giving each other needed material support, trying to resist the control dynamics, hierarchies and system-affirming, oppressive arrangements of charity and social services. Mutual aid projects are a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions, not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on their representatives in government, but by actually building new social relations that are more survivable.
Image credit: Seth Tobocman.