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Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from
the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and
storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal
immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth
inequality. As governments fail to respond to-or actively
engineer-each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and
innovative ways to share resources and support vulnerable members
of their communities. This survival work, when done alongside
social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual
aid. This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it
looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of
mutual aid, describes how mutual aid has been a part of all larger,
powerful social movements, and offers concrete tools for
organizing, such as how to work in groups, decision-making process,
how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout.
Mutual aid isn't charity: it's a form of organizing where people
get to create new systems of care and generosity so we can survive.
First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is
essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli
Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white
disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the
leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability
and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and
queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's
demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories
from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays
weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore
meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies,
identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional
framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily
hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of
Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism,
sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic,
is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to
everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a
window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their
complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.
Revised and Expanded Edition Wait-what's wrong with rights? It is
usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should
follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and
gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would
ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under
the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the
poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to
gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions.
But is this strategy effective? In Normal Life Dean Spade presents
revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social
change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans
activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil
rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights
can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative
resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of
harm and violence. In the new afterword to this revised and
expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans
politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal
recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to
fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration
and trans equality advocates to "pinkwash" state violence by
articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans
inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream
visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to
advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that
shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, Normal Life
is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical
transformations it will require.
First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is
essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli
Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white
disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the
leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability
and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and
queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's
demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories
from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays
weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore
meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies,
identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional
framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily
hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of
Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism,
sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic,
is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to
everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a
window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their
complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.
Lambda Literary Award Finalist - LGBTQ Anthology Written by and for
trans and non-binary survivors of domestic violence and sexual
assault, Written on the Body offers support, guidance and hope for
those who struggle to find safety at home, in the body, and other
unwelcoming places. This collection of letters written to body
parts weaves together narratives of gender, identity, and abuse. It
is the coming together of those who have been fragmented and often
met with disbelief. The book holds the concerns and truths that
many trans people share while offering space for dialogue and
reclamation. Written with intelligence and intimacy, this book is
for those who have found power in re-shaping their bodies,
families, and lives.
This groundbreaking anthology engages the theme of abolition
feminisms, a political tradition grounded in radical anti-violence
organizing, Black feminist and feminist of color rebellion,
survivor knowledge production, strategies devised inside and across
prison walls, and a full, fierce refusal of race-gender pathology
and punitive control. This analysis disrupts the politics of
carceral feminism as conversations about the ramifications of the
prison-industrial complex continue. Contributors include: molly
ackhurst, Anne-lise Ah-fat, Asantewaa Boykin, Melanie Brazzell,
Lauren Caulfield, Esmat Elhalaby, Christine Finley, Joseph Hankins,
Whess Harman, April Harris, Eileen Jimenez, Lacey Johnson, Mimi
Kim, Victoria Law, Tabitha Lean, Colby Lenz, Shirley Leslie,
Meenakshi Mannoe, Cece McDonald, Erica R. Meiners, Kelsey Mohamed,
Nadine Naber, Gloria A. Negrete-Lopez, Ky Peterson, Minh-Ha T.
Pham, Amanda Priebe, Romarilyn Ralston, Clarissa Rojas, Samah
Saleh, Tina Shull, dean spade, Ash Stephens, Vanessa Eileen
Thompson, Emily L. Thuma, and Jana Traboulsi.
Revised and Expanded Edition Wait-what's wrong with rights? It is
usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should
follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and
gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would
ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under
the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the
poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to
gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions.
But is this strategy effective? In Normal Life Dean Spade presents
revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social
change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans
activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil
rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights
can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative
resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of
harm and violence. In the new afterword to this revised and
expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans
politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal
recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to
fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration
and trans equality advocates to "pinkwash" state violence by
articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans
inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream
visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to
advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that
shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, Normal Life
is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical
transformations it will require.
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