A few choice quotes from our April Abortion Academy guest spade.dean . Listen to or watch the recording at the link in our website and be sure check out other offerings by Dean Spade! This session was incredibly inspiring.💡 “Mutual Aid is the part of our movement work where we offer each other material support to survive existing conditions. Mutual aid is based on a shared analysis about root causes – that the systems are to blame for these crises, not the people in crisis. So it’s not that you’re bad for being unhoused. It’s that there’s a racist capitalist housing system. And we’re going to help people get what they need as much as we possibly can in the face of that. We’re talking about mutual aid as opposed to charity. Charity is something that celebrates rich people. Charity is about lifting up the rich and being like, ‘look at their generosity!’ instead of ‘look at how the concentration of wealth produces crisis for the many.’ Charity operates in a way that blames and control...