Conversation with Liat Ben-Moshe and Beatrice Alder-Bolton on the Law and Political Economy Blog
The LPE Blog recently published an excellent symposium on Capitalism and Disability that includes, released today, a conversation between me and Liat Ben-Moshe and Beatrice Alder–Bolton about the work of Marta Russell.
New Podcast Interview: Against Everything with Conner Habib
Had a fun conversation with Mitch Horowitz and Conner Habib. Check it out!
May-June 2022, Events in Europe
I’m so grateful that Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis and the Next has been recently published in Italian, Catalan, and Czech and is forthcoming from various publishers in Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, German, Korean.
I’m doing some events this May and June in Europe related to these versions being published. Here’s the current information on events, some still being finalized.
May 28, 18:00, Prague Anarchist Book Fair
June 2, Desgraca, Lisbon
June 8 Barcelona
June 10 Ateneo La Maliciosa, Madrid
June 15 Milan – Circolo Anarchico Ponte della Ghisolfa
June 16 Florence – Comitato di vicinato di San Casciano (Firenze)
June 17 Bologna – Vag 61 Social Center
June 19 Rome – Forte Prenestino Social Center
Last week in June, details still TBD, Berlin. Book forthcoming from _worten&meer_.
New Romance Webinar: Dismantling the Cycle of Romance
I had the pleasure of doing another workshop on romance with the Fireweed Collective, following up on my Valentine’s Day 2021 workshop on the Romance Myth, below.
Below is a video of the ASL interpreters for the Romance Myth workshop.
New Interview on Conner Habib’s Podcast
I had the pleasure of another wide ranging, fascinating, bizarre conversation with Conner Habib.
Grounded Futures Podcast Interview
I had so much fun talking to Carla and Liam from the Grounded Futures podcast. They really asked such interesting questions. Listen here.
Writing Project from a Beloved Friend Inside
My friend Endjah has been in prison since June 2020 and wrote the attached set of essays and haiku. If you’re interested in contacting Endjah or learning more about this work, you can email Endjah’s support team at endjahs@gmail.com.
Video: The Revolution Is My Personfriend Workshop
The Poetry Project invited me to give a workshop in December 2021. I shared some of the material from a book I’m working on. This interactive workshop focuses on what the Romance Myth is, how it fucks us up, and how friendship can be a useful support.
Workshop Series: Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups
October 2021-January 2022 I am offering this series of four workshops about how to meet common obstacles facing mutual aid groups. For each of the posted workshops, you can find the slides, links to resources mentioned, templates of proposals I discussed in the workshops, and other tools in the links below each video here. The last in the series is coming up January 20. Register here.
WORKSHOP 1: No Masters, No Flakes
Group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.
Presentation slides (PDF)
Results from the live polls (PDF)
Resources
Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making (video)
WORKSHOP 2: Decision-Making
Resources
Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes! (video)
Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street) (video)
WORKSHOP 3: Skills for Abolitionist Practice
Live transcription is available here.
A workshop with Dean Spade about giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.
Resources
- Slides from the workshop
- Workshop template – slide deck template to put on a workshop about group culture and feedback in your mutual aid group (Google slideshow)
- Turning Toward Each Other: A Conflict Workbook
- In It Together – a new workbook/toolkit for groups doing social movement work about conflict in our groups
- Centered Self-Accountability by Shannon Perez-Darby
- Building Accountable Communities video series
WORKSHOP 4: Bringing New People Into the Work
More videos from this series:
- Why Should Mutual Aid Groups Use Consensus Decision Making?
- Building Trust in Groups Using Consensus Decision Making
- Basic Steps in Consensus Decision Making
- Facilitation for Consensus Decision Making
- Mutual Aid and Internalized Cultural Messages about Work
- Horizontal Group Structures in Mutual Aid Work
- Group Culture around Capacity in Mutual Aid
- Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups
- Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups