Mutual Aid

Mutual Aid is a radical handbook for anyone who grasps the severity of the global poly-crisis and wants a community-based means to fight back. Dean Spade — lawyer, academic, writer, and activist — highlights the bold and innovative ways ordinary people have developed to share resources and care for those in crisis. Mutual aid isn’t charity. It is a form of organizing integral to all influential and successful social movements. Spade offers practical tools and advice to help with the challenges of working in groups, forming a decision-making process, and preventing and addressing conflict.

DEAN SPADE has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation and against prisons, borders, policing, and war for over twenty-five years. Spade is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law and the director of the documentary Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back! His latest book is Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together, and he is the host of a new podcast with the same name.