...Dean Spade This article argues that, in the face of worsening conditions from climate change, enhanced border enforcement, a growing wealth gap, housing crises, and policing, social movements should focus on expanding mutual aid strategies. Mutual aid projects directly address survival needs...

... of radical care and mutual aid that already exists today. In this article, two strategies at play in the contemporary Marxist reimagination of anthrogenesis are differentiated: (1) a communist approach focusing primarily on fundamentally restructuring the commons of reproductive care on a grand societal...

... decades. This article argues that it is imperative we deepen the debate about strategies to provoke revolutionary ruptures within the fossil‐capitalist world system. We need viable strategies to generalize mutual aid and disaster communism, and these strategies must provide concrete solutions...

... of negative assumptions about the lives of SRO residents. The pandemic has shocked us into awareness of our inescapable interdependencies. Therefore, it behooves us to revisit these understudied, early proponents of care—an ethics that today's mutual aid and other liberation movements often center. Pharr's...

... implemented austerity measures in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, people organized to care for those who were left in the cold. In Spain, the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca provides access to fair housing and social rents through mutual aid. The organization was spurred by the collapse...

... . 36. Hobart and Kneese, “Radical Care.” 37. Spade, Mutual Aid . 38. Gilmore, Change Everything ; Gilmore, Abolition Geography . 39. See, for example, Nelson, Body and Soul ; Murch, Living for the City ; Goldstein, Poverty in Common ; Hilliard, Black Panther...

... the Romance of Community . 45 Forward Together and Forward Together Action, “Caring for One Another.” 46 On mutual aid, see Spade, “Solidarity Not Charity” ; on the complexities of Occupy Sandy organizing that built poststorm mutual aid projects on existing infrastructure, see Jakobsen...

... of and excited about is the extraordinary rise of mutual aid networks around the world, mobilizing to deliver critical resources to marginalized and vulnerable populations. While I could point to any number of such efforts around the globe, I will again quote from the California Central Coast Climate Justice...

... for mutual aid and care work; however, essential workers in health, social care, and cleaning sectors were of course pushed to the limits, facing high risks of coronavirus infection in their workplaces and while traveling to work. The influx of offers of free time and labor largely dried up with the “return...

... The Bronx and Brooklyn short life on To these self-movements, the force of law is therefore losing its power, if earth, admitted its its power is understood as its ability to limit the politics of what Kropotkin own mortality in called mutual aid...

... persecutions and killings and the impunity that make them possible; they call for justice not just repair; they speak of abolition, the return of stolen lands, food and health care for all; they build forms of mutual aid and creative kinship, claim new genders and the end of gender itself. We've reached...

... departing from their specific historical and cultural contexts and the possibility of earth-care paradigms recodifying queerness as closer to an ever-unruly nature. 18 As Dean Spade notes, “One downside to the urgency that we bring to our mutual aid work can be that we dive right into the work, very...

... over the course of the last three decades. In a variety of contexts (international aid, human services agencies, and grassroots health care), “self-help” has long referred not to individual self-improvement practices but to cooperative efforts for mutually improved conditions on the part...

... for social reproduction, including the reproduction of social movements: donating to mutual aid funds, collecting food to share, connecting with comrades. As Marx writes in the Grundrisse : When we consider bourgeois society in the long view and as a whole, then the final result of the process of social...

... Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra I . Durham, NC : Paperboat , 2016 . Spade Dean . “ Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival .” Social Text , no. 142 ( 2020 ): 131 – 51 . Stockdill Brett , and Danico Mary Yu , eds. Transforming the Ivory...

... movements, uniting socialist and labor parties, trade and industrial unions, and a variety of working-class mutual aid societies and voluntary associations. But the songs of the movement — not only Pottier and Degeyter’s...

... with a dynamic some call t4t, or trans for trans. In Hil Malatino’s framing, t4t is a form of strategic separatism through which trans people might practice love, solidarity, and mutual aid between ourselves while actively decentering cis subjectivities, perceptions, and erotic economies, refusing...

... and ethnic back- NGOs to mediate grounds, to respect for one’s elders, to the protection one expects from one’s superiors, to informal networks of mutual aid, to motherhood, to the cult of between diverse saints, to witchcraft, to mediumship, to charismatic gifts...

... deconstructed, its hegemony challenged, and its attendant universals successfully refused. The name China becomes synonymous with human difference, which the theoretical tenets of post- ­structuralism compel us to affirm.The human and the Chinese appear to be mutually exclusive terms, as though we must...

... have been on the move around the planet over the last year. They came together in different places and at different times to haunt the powers that have been pushing austerity into our lives, communities, and commons. Self-help groups, mutual aid societies, and food banks for the poor in neighborhoods...