Mutual Aid: The Verso Book Club Reading Group
Dean Spade and Beatrice Adler-Bolton join the Verso Book Club Reading Group to discuss mutual aid, health communism, and building solidarity.
As crises mount and multiply, governments fail to respond or exacerbate the problems. What are we to do?
Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) offers practical tools and advice to help with the challenges of working in groups, forming a decision-making process, and preventing and addressing conflict. The new and expanded edition delves into the mainstreaming of mutual aid, the obstacles organisers face, and how we can fight back against the greed and violence that threatens all life.
The next Verso Book Club Reading Group will take place on April 26th. We're thrilled to announce that Dean will be joined by Beatrice Adler-Bolton. She is a disabled and chronically ill writer, the co-host of the Death Panel podcast, and the author of Health Communism.
You can join the Book Club for as little as $10 / £8 per month, with no commitment. Sign up now!
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About the VBC Reading Group
As the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, we believe that a revolutionary pedagogy is vital to building a liberatory future. This new addition to the Verso Book Club moves beyond the initial reading of a book, asking readers to dig into the critical, though often messy, next stage of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
Each month, we will meet over Zoom to hear from the authors themselves, or from a scholar, writer, or thinker who has had a key influence on the topic at hand. Guest speakers are not asked to lecture per se, but to be in conversation with their own reading of the text, highlighting key moments, explicating subtleties, and suggesting questions for further dialogue in advance of small group discussion. We also encourage members to self-organize either in person or virtual satellite meetups.
