As crises mount and multiply, governments fail to respond or exacerbate the problems. What are we to do?

Mutual Aid is a radical handbook for anyone who grasps the severity of the global poly-crisis and wants a community-based means to fight back. Dean Spade — lawyer, academic, writer, and activist — highlights the bold and innovative ways ordinary people have developed to share resources and care for those in crisis. Mutual aid isn’t charity. It is a form of organizing integral to all influential and successful social movements. Spade offers practical tools and advice to help with the challenges of working in groups, forming a decision-making process, and preventing and addressing conflict.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
DEAN SPADE has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation and against prisons, borders, policing, and war for over twenty-five years. Spade is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law and the director of the documentary Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back! His latest book is Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together, and he is the host of a new podcast with the same name.

Author Residence: Seattle, Washington