In a time of climate catastrophe, genocide, mass incarceration and political turmoil, people need to work together - better! That's why lifelong activist Dean Spade has written "Love in a ...... .. World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together". Which tools can help people and social justice movements face conflict and emerge stronger (rather than weaker)? Which stories do we tell ourselves that aren't helping us think - or act - in our best interest? In this timely conversation, Spade shares tips on how we might get our interpersonal houses in order so that we're better equipped to show up for others and the causes we care about. Spade is a lawyer, educator, and author of "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)", and "Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law". He's the director of "Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!", and in 2002 he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York City, a law collective that provides free legal services to trans and gender non-conforming people who are low income and/or people of color. He has useful things to say about romance too, which are worth bearing in mind, as the Valentine's marketing crush hits, as Laura reflects in her commentary.". . . Most of us are taking in all the bad news by ourselves through a screen . . . One of the best things we can do to support our own wellbeing through the overwhelm is be with others, joining any kind of project in our communities, a creative project, a mutual aid project . . ." - Dean Spade"The typical self-help genre is very focused on the individual. It doesn't contextualize the kinds of suffering that everyone's going through in a broader feminist analysis, anti-capitalist analysis, anti-racist analysis . . . If we understand that our individual suffering is a bunch of bigger scripts, . . . it can be a little bit freeing
Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds
Episode Number: 142
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