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Featured Videos
Shit’s Totally FUCKED! What Can We Do?: A Mutual Aid Explainer by Dean Spade and Ciro Carillo
When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability, 2016 Kessler Award Speech
Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back
Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders
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Video: Conversation with Angela Harris and Adrienne Davis
You can watch on vimeo here.
This Valentine’s Day, Let’s Ditch Romance Myths and Seek Collective Liberation
It’s the first Valentine’s Day in the second Trump presidency, and the speed-up of racist, ecocidal, patriarchal, wealth-concentrating terror is ploughing through, leaving devastation, despair and overwhelm in its wake. In courageous pursuit of love for our people, in profound solidarity with life on the planet, it’s time to shrug off the patriarchal romance myth …
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Interview with Disrupted on Connecticut Public Radio
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Featured Project
Mutual Aid Toolbox
Conditions are already disastrous and getting worse under the new presidential administration. This new Mutual Aid Toolbox is a collection of tools for creating mutual aid projects to help each other survive the brutal realities of poverty, criminalization, immigration enforcement, racism, ablism and violence, and building the world we want to live in where everyone has everything we need. The site has hundreds of projects and tools for starting projects that we need right now.
Mutual aid is a term to describe people giving each other needed material support, trying to resist the control dynamics, hierarchies and system-affirming, oppressive arrangements of charity and social services. Mutual aid projects are a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions, not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on their representatives in government, but by actually building new social relations that are more survivable.
Image credit: Seth Tobocman.