{"title":"Dean Spade","description":"\u003cp\u003eDean Spade's works delve into the intersections of social justice, law, and community care, offering critical insights into structures of power and resistance. Readers can expect thoughtful explorations of transformative justice, mutual aid, and the challenges faced in creating equitable health and wellness systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending rigorous analysis with a passionate call for change, Spade's books serve as both educational resources and inspiring reflections. They invite readers to engage deeply with contemporary struggles for dignity, inclusion, and collective wellbeing.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mutual-aid-by-dean-spade-9781836742555","title":"Mutual Aid","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAround 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is about \u003cem\u003emutual aid\u003c\/em\u003e: 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 processes, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMutual aid isn’t charity: it’s a form of organising where people get to create new systems of care and generosity so we can survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47603033506028,"sku":"9781836742555","price":22.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781836742555-mutual-aid.jpg?v=1778054060"},{"product_id":"love-in-a-fucked-up-world-by-dean-spade-9781643756462","title":"Love in a Fucked-Up World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe all know it takes guts to fight injustice and inequality. But how often do we bring those same values into our most intimate relationships? In this inspiring self-help handbook, luminary trans activist and author of \u003ci\u003eMutual Aid\u003c\/i\u003e, Dean Spade dares us to be the change we want to see—both in the world, and at home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAround the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the pandemic and climate change-induced disasters to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. Many of us feel mobilised to organise and collectively combat these issues on both a personal and political level, often dedicating our lives to the forwarding of progressive ideas and the daunting goal of trying to bend the world toward justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut even those of us who long for change seem to have trouble when it comes to interpersonal relationships. Too often we think of our political values as outward-facing positions against dominant systems of power. Rarely, if ever, do we pursue the same kind of justice close to home, in our personal connections. Many activist projects and resistance groups fall apart because people treat each other poorly, trying desperately to live out the cultural myths about dating and relationships that we are fed from an early age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow do we divest from the idea that one romantic partner will be the solution to all our problems? How do we separate our expectations of love from the troubling dynamics left to us by our parents? 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