Mutual Aid
Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Published on 27. October 2020
128 pages
978-1-83976-213-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
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File size
0,41 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-83976-213-0 (9781839762130)
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Person
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.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Crisis Conditions Require Bold Tactics
- Part I. What is Mutual Aid?
- 1. Three Key Elements of Mutual Aid
- One. Mutual aid projects work to meet survival needs and build shared understanding about why people do not have what they need.
- Two. Mutual aid projects mobilize people, expand solidarity, and build movements.
- Three. Mutual aid projects are participatory, solving problems through collective action rather than waiting for saviors.
- 2. Solidarity Not Charity!
- 3. We Get More When We Demand More
- Part II. Working Together on Purpose
- 4. Some Dangers and Pitfalls of Mutual Aid
- Deservingness Hierarchies
- Saviorism and Paternalism
- Co-optation
- Characteristics of Mutual Aid vs. Charity
- 5. No Masters, No Flakes
- Group Culture
- Making Decisions Together
- Leadership Qualities That Support Mutuality and Collaboration
- Handling Money
- Burnout
- Conflict
- Working with Joy
- Perfectionism
- Mad Mapping
- Conclusion: Everything Is at Stake and We're Fighting to Win
- Resource List
