Here's a clip from a conversation I had with Annie Spencer at Casino for Social Medicine about her book How to Break an Addiction (Common Notions Press). You can listen to the whole conversation at patreon.com/deanspade for free.
We’re tired, wired, fried from all that is happening, the losses, the hard work in our communities, the overwhelm. How do we relax? Find more conversations about how to sustain ourselves & our participation in resistance struggles on the Love in a F*cked Up World podcast & at patreon.com/deanspade
MUTUAL AID by @deanspade.bsky.social. Genuinely essential reading. The difference between mutual aid and charity and intensely practical guidance on how to organize a mutual aid group. Short! Easy read! Critically important info for everyone! bookshop.org/p/books/mutu...
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
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This is an excerpt from a longer conversation that Elias Lowe and I had about jealousy, including about when people have gender-based jealousy, meaning they feel more jealousy if their partner is with someone with a particular gender. You can find the whole thing on patreon.com/deanspade
A little clip from the recent book launch event for the second edition of Mutual Aid. Check out the whole conversation with Jessica Rosenberg and Autumn Meghan Brown. Grateful to @versobooks.bsky.social for organizing this event!
My friend Grace Pinson is a trans woman and jailhouse lawyer leaving federal prison next month after 23 years and needs funds to support her re-entry. She's a badass, but of course she shouldn't need to be to warrant support. Donate and share! @deanspade.bsky.social bit.ly/welcomehomegrace
Prisons are designed to isolate, break social ties, and destroy communities. Yet, people fight hard to keep relationships going across prison walls, and through all the crises that prisons manufacture. Episode 26 is Part One of a multi-episode series on relating across prison walls.
When our friends are venting about what is frustrating them it’s easy to go into autopilot responses. It can help to notice what our go-to responses are so we can choose to do more value-aligned things. Find more conversations about building relationships and movements at patreon.com/deanspade.
Join Autumn Brown, R. Jessica Rosenberg, and me to discuss how mutual aid efforts have changed between 2019 and 2026, the repression of Stop Cop City activists, and transitioning between acute and ongoing crises. Tune in May 11 at 5pm CST / 6pm EST
Mutual Aid in 2026: How Minneapolis Fights Back
On May 11th at 6pm (EST), Verso will be joined by Dean Spade, Autumn Brown, and R. Jessica Rosenberg to celebrate the new edition of Mutual Aid, discuss how mutual aid efforts have changed between 2019 and 2026, the repression of Stop Cop City activists, and transitioning between acute and ongoing crises. RSVP here! --
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Resentment can poison our enjoyment of the things, it can be toxic for groups, it is a reasonable response to the conditions we live under, and we must work through it so we can stay connected. Listen to some new tools and explore how we can work with this difficult mental and emotional tangle.
I love hearing Vicky Osterweil talk about anything, but most especially about how she understands the gorgeous threat that trans people constitute to the fascist ecocidal monsters who currently run most things in our lives. The latest podcast episode is out now!
I had the great pleasure of talking to my friend Eli Clare about his new book, Unfurl, and the long arc of his exquisite work shaping trans politics and disability justice over the last many decades.
The second edition of Mutual Aid came out this week! The Free Society People’s Library is hosting a meetup to read and discuss the new edition on April 18th at Sumner-Albina Park in Portland, OR. The meetup is a fundraiser for Be Loved Bloc and Common Fire, supporting families impacted by ICE.
In the latest episode of the podcast, I got to speak with Benji Hart, who has years of experience facilitating transformative justice processes. In this clip, I’m telling him about this experience, and why I think we should reframe what counts as success in transformative justice.
Loved this conversation with Benji Hart about their work facilitating trnasformative justice processes, how they got involved in work to oppose US military imperialism, and so much more.
In this episode, Morgan Bassichis and I discuss a listener’s question about when self-improvement work is too rigorous and/or driven by shame. We went deep with this one, thinking together about the really painful beliefs about ourselves that sometimes come up and how to move through them.
What a treat to have my book Mutual Aid read by @margaret.bsky.social on her podcast Cool Zone Media Book Club. Check out both episodes anywhere you get your podcasts! An updated version of Mutual Aid is coming out March 31st from Verso Books.
Waterstones is offering a 25% off pre-orders of the new edition of Mutual Aid from February 17th to February 20th. To buy the book for 25% off, you can go to the Waterstones website and use the code FEB26.
Natalie and I have been working together to oppose Israeli pinkwashing for over a decade. In this live conversation, we will be talking about conflict in movement groups and tools for addressing it. Join us on my Patreon on Feb 16 at 2:30pm EST! www.patreon.com/posts/upcomi...
Upcoming Live with Natalie Kouri-Towe - Monday, February 16 at 2:30pm EST | Dean Spade
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6th annual Valentine's Day webinar with Fireweed Collective, Feb 15 at 1pm ET! The theme this year is "too much, or not enough?" You can watch the videos of the prior 5 at the link in my bio. Registration: givebutter.com/deanspade6
It was so much fun to sit down with @chaninicholas.bsky.social and talk about how she got politicized, how we hold fear and choose purposeful action in these difficult times, what it takes to stand up for what we believe in when were are under pressure, what it means to worship time, and more.
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From my conversation on the Green Dreamer Podcast. Listen to the whole conversation wherever you get your podcasts. Solidarity not charity! You can find much more about this in my book Mutual Aid which is free on the Anarchist Library. I just wrote an updated edition that is coming out March 31.
This is an excerpt from a conversation about how I’ve never had a cell phone and how that has impacted my boundaries with work and collaborations. In this clip, I discuss how the idea that everyone should be reachable at all times is unrealistic and sometimes less efficient.
My friend Holiday Simmons and I will be doing a livestream conversation on my Patreon this Monday (Feb 2) at 1PM EST. Holiday is a Black Cherokee, genderqueer, two-spirit social worker and the host of the Trans Cookout Podcast. Please join us live or catch the video after. patreon.com/deanspade
In this clip, I discuss the idea that cell phones are important because it helps people reach you in an emergency, and because cell phones make us safer. I’ve heard this a lot, but I don’t buy it. You can watch our whole conversation at patreon.com/deanspade for free!
I sat down with Peter Gelderloos to talk about his decades of work exposing the damaging impact that pacifist discourse has in resistance movements, stigmatizing people who fight back boldly. You can hear the whole interview wherever you listen to podcasts or watch the video on YouTube.
For Episode 17 I got to sit down with Peter Gelderloos, someone whose writing has been central to my political development since I first encountered his book, How Nonviolence Protects the State, in the early 2000’s.
Excited to share my interview with Holly Whitaker, author of Quit Like a Woman and host of the Co-Regulation podcast. I have been very inspired by Holly’s critical feminist analysis of how the alcohol industry and the ubiquity of 12-step impact how we perceive drinking and sobriety.
Washington's governor likes to pretend to care about immigrants, meanwhile his agencies keep lying about handing over info to the feds that helps them round people up. This new report exposes the details.
Roadside Assist: Washington State’s Continued Sharing of Drivers’ Information with Federal Immigration Enforcement - Center for Human Rights
Executive summary Today, immigrant Washingtonians are increasingly afraid to drive, as our streets, highways, and public thoroughfares have become frequent sites for immigration enforcement. These incidents, in which drivers are typically apprehended by masked, unidentified agents driving unmarked vehicles, raise multiple human rights concerns: many arrests appear to have been warrantless,[1] some have been violent,[2] and some
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Wrote about what happens when conflict appears in our movement spaces and how to move through it instead of abandoning our work in @npquarterly.bsky.social ! nonprofitquarterly.org/navigating-c...
