Online
Oct 28, 2021 | 7:00PM

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.

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mutual aid

May 7, 2021 | 2:00PM

Survival 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.

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Abolition, climate crisis, climate justice, mutual aid

Money-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.

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mutual aid

Feb 9, 2021 | 6:30PM

Teach 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 […]

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activism, mutual aid

We Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity

Dean Spade in conversation with Mariame Kaba and Ejeris Dixon

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Dean Spade, Ejeris Dixon, Mariame Kaba, mutual aid

Nov 12, 2020 | 7:00PM

We 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.

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Introduction to Mutual Aid

What is "mutual aid," and how is it different from charity, philanthropy, and state social services?

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Abolition, mutual aid

Online
Jan 5, 2023 | 7:00PM

Should 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?

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Sydney Johnson (BC 2025)

Imagining Collective Care in Our Future: A Conversation with Premilla Nadasen

Jun 18, 2024

Premilla Nadasen is a historian of social change. Nadasen’s work has focused on organizing among poor and working-class women of color and alternative labor movements in the US. Nadasen currently serves as the Anne Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College and Co-Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Care: The Highest […]

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capitalism, care, Premilla Nadasen

Students

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. […]

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Eve Glazier (BC '23)

Toward 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 […]

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Apr 25, 2023 / 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT / 6pm CDT

It’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, […]

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Abolition, antiwar