Join us for a roundtable discussion December 1 with scholar-activists Angélica Cházaro, Chandan Reddy and Dean Spade about Spade's new book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) (Verso, 2020). According to Spade, "Mutual aid is a term used to describe collective coordination to meet each other’s needs stemming from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them. Those systems, in fact, have often created the crisis, or are making things worse." Mutual aid projects have proliferated during COVID-19, and have been core infrastructure in the current uprising against racist policing and vital on the front lines of fires, floods and storms caused by climate change. The roundtable will discuss the role of mutual aid in the current and coming crises, reflecting on lessons learned in the movements for migrant justice, police and prison abolition, and climate justice. Even as we face unprecedented times, this discussion will offer insights rooted in friendship and solidarity to help us build collective power and the relationships we need as we look to 2021.

This event is free and open to all. Registration is required at the link below. Please email any access needs to mybarra@uw.edu 

Sponsored by: UW Department of Geography, UW Department of Comparative History of Ideas (CHID), UW Department of Gender Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS), and the Coalition to Decriminalize UW.