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mutual aid
Dean Spade: Mutual Aid and Internalized Cultural Messages about Work
Highlight video from the Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups workshop series.
Read MoreDean Spade: Horizontal Group Structures in Mutual Aid Work
Highlight video from the Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups workshop series.
Read MoreDean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups
Highlights from the Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups workshop series.
Read MoreBuilding Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 3): Skills for Abolitionist Practice
A workshop with Dean Spade on giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.
Read MoreBuilding Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making
A workshop in a multi-session series on planning and making decisions together in mutual aid groups facilitated by Dean Spade.
Read MoreBuilding Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes!
A workshop in a multi-session series with Dean Spade exploring group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.
Read MoreBuilding Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 4): Bringing New People into the Work
Dean Spade
How do we recruit more people to our groups, help them get deeply plugged in and feel co-stewardship of the work? How do we create and maintain supportive group culture as new people join? How do we set shared expectations and help new members build skills for accountability in the work? This workshop is part […]
Read MoreBuilding Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 3): Skills for Abolitionist Practice
Dean Spade
A workshop with Dean Spade about giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups. Slides Poll results Resources Workshop template – slide deck template to put on a workshop about group culture and feedback in your mutual aid group (Google slideshow) Turning Toward Each Other: A Conflict Workbook In It Together – a new workbook/toolkit […]
Read MoreBuilding Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making
Dean Spade
A workshop on planning and making decisions together in mutual aid groups. This workshop is part of a series of four. Links to additional workshops in the series are below. Slides Poll results Resources Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video) Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video) Building Capacity […]
Read MoreBuilding 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.
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