Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
Around the globe, people are faced with spiraling crises, from the pandemic and climate change-induced disasters to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, genocide, racist policing, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. More and more of us feel mobilized to fight back, often dedicating our lives to collective liberation. But even those of us who long for change seem to have trouble when it comes to interpersonal relationships. Too often we think of our political values as outward-facing positions again dominant systems of power. Many projects and resistance groups fall apart because people treat each other poorly, trying desperately to live out the cultural myths about dating and relationships that we are fed from an early age. How do we divest from cultural programming that gives us harmful expectations about sex, dating, romance and friendship? How do we recover from the messed up dynamics we were trained in by childhood caregivers? How do we bring our best thinking about freedom into step with our desires for healing and connection? Dean Spade’s Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together is a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands so we can stick together while we work for survival and liberation.
Accessibility
This event is free, open to the public, and will stream online on BCRW’s YouTube page. Live ASL interpretation will be provided.
Registration is preferred. A link to the video will be emailed to registrants closer to the day of the event.
About the Speakers
Dean Spade is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next). He has worked for twenty-five years as a leading voice for trans liberation, prison abolition, and mutual aid, and has been interviewed by Bloomberg TV, Democracy Now, the Nation, the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast, and countless other media outlets. He teaches at the Seattle University School of Law. Find him at deanspade.net.