I am grateful to Oishik Sircar for asking me perhaps the most interesting questions I have ever been asked during this recent conversation. We talked about teaching, mutual aid, the role of legal work in social movements, and so much more. Check it out here. PDF here.
I’m so grateful that Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis and the Next has been recently published in Italian, Catalan, and Czech and is forthcoming from various publishers in Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, German, Korean.
I’m doing some events this May and June in Europe related to these versions being published. Here’s the current information on events, some still being finalized.
May 28, 18:00, Prague Anarchist Book Fair
June 2, Desgraca, Lisbon
June 8 Barcelona
June 10 Ateneo La Maliciosa, Madrid
June 15 Milan – Circolo Anarchico Ponte della Ghisolfa
June 16 Florence – Comitato di vicinato di San Casciano (Firenze)
June 17 Bologna – Vag 61 Social Center
June 19 Rome – Forte Prenestino Social Center
Last week in June, details still TBD, Berlin. Book forthcoming from _worten&meer_.
I had the pleasure of doing another workshop on romance with the Fireweed Collective, following up on my Valentine’s Day 2021 workshop on the Romance Myth, below.
Below is a video of the ASL interpreters for the Romance Myth workshop.
I had the pleasure of another wide ranging, fascinating, bizarre conversation with Conner Habib.
I had so much fun talking to Carla and Liam from the Grounded Futures podcast. They really asked such interesting questions. Listen here.
My friend Endjah has been in prison since June 2020 and wrote the attached set of essays and haiku. If you’re interested in contacting Endjah or learning more about this work, you can email Endjah’s support team at endjahs@gmail.com.
The Poetry Project invited me to give a workshop in December 2021. I shared some of the material from a book I’m working on. This interactive workshop focuses on what the Romance Myth is, how it fucks us up, and how friendship can be a useful support.
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
WORKSHOP 4: Bringing New People Into the Work
More videos from this series:
I had so much fun being interviewed for the BOLD podcast, a production of White People 4 Black Lives. Listen here.
I had the opportunity to talk with mycologist Peter McCoy on The Last Stand podcast about applying the characteristics of fungal networks to the political work of resource distribution, resilience building, and solidarity.
