I’ve been working on this new tool about how to respond to escalating repression without falling into classic anti-solidarity traps with Community Justice Exchange, Jocelyn Simonson, PIlar Weiss, Atara Rich-Shea and Zohra Ahmed since last year, and we’re excited to share it! You can find the entire tool at bit.ly/cultivatesolidarity. Check out the video from our launch event below.
Freshly published: Rachel Herzing, Bench Ansfield and I had a conversation about abolitionist questions of infrastructure, focusing on what transformative justice means, how abolitionists debate questions of state formation, and much more.
Check out this new review Kaegan Sparks wrote about my book on mutual aid and Disasters and Social Reproduction: Crisis Response Between the State and Community, by Peer Illner.
I am a huge fan of the Its Going Down Podcast so I was very excited to be interviewed about my new book on mutual aid.
Last week, Mariame Kaba and Ejeris Dixon joined me in a conversation about mutual aid, transformative justice and abolition. It was one of the best public conversations I have ever been part of and I highly recommend watching the recording!
In advance of that event, Barnard College interviewed me about mutual aid.
I also recently spoke to KUOW’s Bill Radke on The Record. You can listen here.
Last week I launched my new book, Mutual Aid, in conversation with Whitney Hu, hosted by Community Bookstore. You can watch the event video if you missed it.
Verso also recently gave me the opportunity to write a short descriptive list of five books that have influenced my thinking about mutual aid. You can read the essay, which focuses on the work of the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, No One Is Illegal, and INCITE! and includes writing by Peter Gelderloos, Alondra Nelson, Harsha Walia, and others.
I encourage you to listen to all the episodes of the Death Panel podcast, including my recent conversation with them about mutual aid, COVID, poor relief histories, law, and more.
Finally, I wanted to note that my new book is part of a four-book series from Verso about COVID and care. Collect all four!
As part of celebrating the release of my new book on #mutualaid this week from Verso Books, I wrote this little piece highlighting 5 books that demonstrate how mutual aid is central to movements for transformative change. Check it out!
https://www.versobooks.com/lists/4876-5-book-plan-mutual-aid
This conversation was very rich and useful for me. I hope you enjoy it! I am grateful to the organizers and my fellow panelists.
I learned so much at this event, which pulled together a group of brilliant organizers to talk about mutual aid, debt and labor strikes, and more. The first video below was a conversation featuring a bunch of speakers giving short, info-packed presentations, and the videos after that are moderated break out room conversations. I gave a presentation in the first event and was one of the speakers in the mutual aid break out room, which I really enjoyed, but I recommend you watch them all!
