Dean Spade: Radical love and solidarity in the face of growing repression

What does it mean to bypass formalized structures of change-making and to engage in mutual aid? How does the philanthropy-nonprofit-industrial complex itself discourage systemic change? And how do we balance participation in immediate care response with the less visible, longer term, more mycelial work of rewiring community power?

In this episode, Green Dreamer’s kaméa chayne speaks with Dean Spade of Mutual Aid and Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together.

Join us as we explore what it means to honor difference and expertise in activism without replicating oppressive hierarchy, reflect on lateral conflicts within the messy terrains of movement building, and more.

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Song features: “Earth Dog” and “Peaches” by Isla Greenwood (@islagreenwood on Instagram)