EP #232 - 03.03.2021 - The Pandemic and the History of Mutual Aid

Today is a discussion in partnership w/the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest of Villanova University.  I will be talking with Tyesha Maddox and Daniel Joslyn about the pandemic and the history of mutual aid.

Daniel Joslyn is a PhD candidate in history at New York University, whose work recovers a largely forgotten transnational mystical feminist socialist movement at the turn of the twentieth century. He is a core member of Mutual Aid NYC, and is in the process of building an online open-source library by and for organizers across movements in and around New York City to co-locate, find and preserve materials vital to their organizing work. He is also the co-editor of notariot.com, an educational resource teaching people about the roots of the 2020 uprising in the black radical tradition.

Tyesha Maddox is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University in the Department of African and African American Studies.  She received her PhD in History from New York University in 2016.  She received a BA in History and Africana Studies and a MPS in Africana Studies both from Cornell University.  Her current manuscript, "From Invisible to Immigrants: Political Activism and the Construction of Caribbean American Identity, 1890-1940," examines the significance of early twentieth century Anglophone Caribbean immigrant mutual aid societies and benevolent associations in New York.