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Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes!
Dean Spade
A workshop on group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.
Read MoreSurvival and Resistance: Mutual Aid in Disastrous Times
Naomi Klein, Dean Spade, adrienne maree brown, Klee Benally, and Chandan Reddy (moderator)
As we face cascading crises caused by the extractive systems that still determine the material conditions of our lives, mutual aid is proliferating and drawing more people into resistance work.
Read MoreMoney-Handling and Taxes for Mutual Aid Groups
This online teach-in is for mutual aid groups facing nuts and bolts issues that come with the work of handling money outside of a non-profit structure.
Read MoreTeach In: Money-Handling and Taxes for Mutual Aid Groups
Mike Haber and Dean Spade
Click here to access Mike’s powerpoint slides from this event. This online teach-in is for mutual aid groups facing nuts and bolts issues that come with the work we’ve all been doing. How has your group been funnelling money to people in need, and what are the tax consequences? How should we store money we […]
Read MoreWe Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity
Dean Spade in conversation with Mariame Kaba and Ejeris Dixon
Read MoreWe Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity
Dean Spade, Mariame Kaba, and Ejeris Dixon
Dean Spade, Ejeris Dixon, and Mariame Kaba discuss mutual aid as an abolitionist project.
Read MoreIntroduction to Mutual Aid
What is "mutual aid," and how is it different from charity, philanthropy, and state social services?
Read MoreShould Social Movement Work be Paid?
Dean Spade
Explore a vexing question being discussed in many movement groups: Should people be paid to do this work?
Read MoreStudents
Dec 20, 2023
Students are core participants at every level of BCRW’s work, working on research projects with faculty and activist collaborators, assisting with and producing original content for BCRW publications (including S&F Online and the BCRW Blog) and video productions, developing and carrying out our core programming, and shaping BCRW’s work through the BCRW Student Advisory Board. […]
Read MoreToward an Abolitionist Archival Practice
Jul 11, 2023
It was a fall day in September 2021. I was in Barnard College’s library sort of doing homework in my favorite green chair, when my phone buzzed with an email that piqued my interest. The email said that archivists at Barnard had just returned from a trip to New Jersey with a car full of […]
Read MoreIt’s All Policing, It’s All War: Chicago Organizers on Connecting Abolition and Demilitarization
Benji Hart, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Timmy Châu, and Dean Spade
ASL will be provided. Live transcription is available here. The prison and police abolition movement and the anti-war movement are often thought of as separate, siloed formations. However, in practice, organizers working to end racist, colonial, imperialist, patriarchial, ecocidal violence understand these to be the same fight. Join us for a conversation with Benji Hart, […]
Read MoreWelcome from Co-Directors Premilla Nadasen and Janet Jakobsen
Sep 7, 2022
We are very excited to begin our new roles as co-directors of BCRW. We would first like to extend our deepest gratitude to Professor Elizabeth Castelli for leading BCRW over the last four years and a huge thanks to the staff for all their hard work. We are proud to be a part of a […]
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