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Dean Spade - Mutual Aid: Survival and Resistance in Times of Disaster

Part of event series: Visual & Critical Studies Forum | 2021/2022 Series

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Visual & Critical Studies and CCA@CCA

tierneyh@cca.edu

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EVENT DESCRIPTION

Dean Spade

TOPIC: “Mutual Aid: Survival and Resistance in Times of Disaster”

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), was published by Verso Press in October 2020.

This event is funded in part by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series at CCA, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.

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Free and open to the public