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.
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.
Mutual Aid 101 Workshop
Shareable recently hosted me for a Mutual Aid 101 workshop and posted the video publicly.
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 Essay about Criminalization of Mutual Aid and #StopCopCity
It was a pleasure to work with the Atlanta Press Collective on this piece about the history and contemporary realities of the criminalization of mutual aid, in light of the indictment of 61 forest defenders working to stop the construction of a new police training facility in Atlanta.
Conversation with Liat Ben-Moshe and Beatrice Alder-Bolton on the Law and Political Economy Blog
The LPE Blog recently published an excellent symposium on Capitalism and Disability that includes, released today, a conversation between me and Liat Ben-Moshe and Beatrice Alder–Bolton about the work of Marta Russell.
Grounded Futures Podcast Interview
I had so much fun talking to Carla and Liam from the Grounded Futures podcast. They really asked such interesting questions. Listen here.
Workshop Series: Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups
October 2021-January 2022 I am offering this series of four workshops about how to meet common obstacles facing mutual aid groups. For each of the posted workshops, you can find the slides, links to resources mentioned, templates of proposals I discussed in the workshops, and other tools in the links below each video here. The last in the series is coming up January 20. Register here.
WORKSHOP 1: No Masters, No Flakes
Group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.
Presentation slides (PDF)
Results from the live polls (PDF)
Resources
Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making (video)
WORKSHOP 2: Decision-Making
Resources
Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes! (video)
Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street) (video)
WORKSHOP 3: Skills for Abolitionist Practice
Live transcription is available here.
A workshop with Dean Spade about giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.
Resources
- Slides from the workshop
- Workshop template – slide deck template to put on a workshop about group culture and feedback in your mutual aid group (Google slideshow)
- Turning Toward Each Other: A Conflict Workbook
- In It Together – a new workbook/toolkit for groups doing social movement work about conflict in our groups
- Centered Self-Accountability by Shannon Perez-Darby
- Building Accountable Communities video series
WORKSHOP 4: Bringing New People Into the Work
More videos from this series:
- Why Should Mutual Aid Groups Use Consensus Decision Making?
- Building Trust in Groups Using Consensus Decision Making
- Basic Steps in Consensus Decision Making
- Facilitation for Consensus Decision Making
- Mutual Aid and Internalized Cultural Messages about Work
- Horizontal Group Structures in Mutual Aid Work
- Group Culture around Capacity in Mutual Aid
- Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups
- Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups
Podcast Interview: BOLD Conversations about Race
I had so much fun being interviewed for the BOLD podcast, a production of White People 4 Black Lives. Listen here.