As we confront increased targeting of immigrants, trans people, poor people, and so many other vulnerable groups, heightening political repression, worsening ecological crisis, rising rent and food prices, an ongoing pandemic, and more, how do we stick together? How do we care for each other and build resistance under severe conditions? How do we focus on what we can do in our own communities rather than hoping that answers will come from politicians, courts, billionaires, or big non-profits?

In this lecture, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) and Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together will talk about the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now, and what it takes for us to show up for each other in this moment.

Graffiti photo by Kalei de Leon on Unsplash. Dean's headshot with permission.

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About the Speaker

Dean Spade

Organizer, writer and teacher

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation and end policing, border enforcement, and war for the past 25 years. He is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law, and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), and the director of Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!. His newest book is Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. You can listen to his new podcast here.

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