167: Healing and Helping with Mutual Aid with Dean Spade

<span style="font-weight: 400">In this conversation with Dean Spade we resolve a long-running challenge in my understanding: when </span><a href="https://www.yourparentingmojo.com/othering" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400">we talked with Dr. john powell on the topic of Othering and Belonging</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> a couple of years ago we discussed how volunteering promotes othering, because it perpetuates the idea that the volunteer is a person with resources to give, and the recipient has little in the way of useful knowledge or resources of their own.  Dr. powell agreed, but we didn’t have time to discuss what to do instead.</span> &nbsp; <span style="font-weight: 400">In this episode we finally punch out that lingering </span><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/the-legacy-of-hanging-chads" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400">hanging chad</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> of knowledge and talk with Dean Spade about the concept of mutual aid, which is the topic of his book: </span><a href="http://www.deanspade.net/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400">Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And The Next)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">.  In this conversation we discuss:</span> &nbsp; <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">What is mutual aid, and how it’s more effective than volunteering</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">How we heal in community with others from the effects that benign-seeming systems like capitalism have on us</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Ways to find and get involved in mutual aid projects</span></li> </ul><br/> &nbsp; <span style="font-weight: 400">As Dean and I talked, I also realized how applicable these ideas are to the work I do with parents in the Tamin