Mutual Aid

Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Dean Spade

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English

Verso Books
02 February 2021

Library & information sciences; Community & outreach services; Politics & government; Employment & labour law

Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support vulnerable members of their communities. This survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid.

This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid has been a part of all larger, powerful social movements, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout.

Mutual aid isn’t charity: it’s a form of organizing where people get to create new systems of care and generosity so we can survive.

By: Dean Spade
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 129g
ISBN: 9781839762123
ISBN 10: 1839762128
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 02 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dean Spade is an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches courses on policing, imprisonment, gender, race, and social movements. Dean has spent over two decades working in social movements working to end prisons, borders, poverty, and war and support people trying to survive right now. In 2002, Dean founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color, and which operates on a collective governance model. Alongside his book Normal Life: Adminsitrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law, Dean’s writing has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Out, In These Times, Social Text, and Signs.

Reviews for Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

We need this book right now! This reads like a how-to manual for modern and future interdependence. Dean walks us through what mutual aid is, best practices, pitfalls, and helps us tap into the wisdom and potential of this strategy for surviving the crises we can anticipate and those that will surprise us. Read this and move from a scarcity/charity mindset to one of abundant solidarity! - adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure Activism I cheered after I read this book. Finally, we have an accessible mutual aid primer to ground our work in this current challenging yet invigorating moment. I'm giving copies of this book to everyone I know. You should too - Mariame Kaba, founder and director of Project NIA Peter Kropotkin called mutual aid a factor in evolution. The Black Panther Party called it survival pending revolution. Dean Spade tells us that mutual aid is fundamental to making revolution. It is about building solidarity, preparing for battle, and creating a culture of collective care to displace the atomizing culture of individualism and the market. An indispensable guide for our moment, this book teaches us that effective social movements are impossible without mutual aid. Read every page. Carry it everywhere. Share it with everyone. Change everything. - Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams - Heather Munao, Booklist