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
Podcast Interview: BOLD Conversations about Race
I had so much fun being interviewed for the BOLD podcast, a production of White People 4 Black Lives. Listen here.
Podcast Interview: Fungal Networks and Mutual Aid
I had the opportunity to talk with mycologist Peter McCoy on The Last Stand podcast about applying the characteristics of fungal networks to the political work of resource distribution, resilience building, and solidarity.
Bilingual (Spanish/English) Mutual Aid Event with Ayuda Mutua CDMX
Check out this video of a conversation I got to have with mutual aid organizers in Mexico City. The conversation is all interpreted in Spanish and English.
Video: Beyond the Bars 2021 Panel
I had the great fortune to be part of this discussion about abolition in 2021 with Gina Dent, Dawn Harrington and Ivan Calaff.
Video: Mutual Aid Workshop for CAT-911 with ASL Interpretation
I recently got to do a political education workshop about mutual aid for a group I really admire, CAT-911. They are working to build ways of responding to emergencies without calling the cops, and their work is very thoughtful and inspiring!
Video: “Facing the Limits of Law Reform in these Times of Crisis” Lecture
Video: In Conversation with Kelly Hayes about Mutual Aid
I had the great honor to be part of the Women’s History Month Annual Symposium at Northwestern University, where I got to be in conversation with Kelly Hayes about mutual aid. Check it out!
