Join Lower Adirondack Pride in collaboration with Kitch a Vibe and Black Walnut Books for our quarterly Pride Book Club — this quarter we’ll be reading Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade.
About the Book: Around 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.
This book is about mutual aid: 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 process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout.
Mutual aid isn’t charity: it’s a form of organizing where people get to create new systems of care and generosity so we can survive.
Purchase this book at Black Walnut Books and a portion of your sale will support Lower Adirondack Pride’s mission to uplift LGBTQIA+ individuals throughout our region.
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Important Information:
PARKING:
Parking is available throughout the Downtown district. For more information, view the City of Glens Falls parking map.
ACCESSIBILITY:
Kitch a Vibe is accessible via the rear door and accessible restrooms are available. f you have additional accessibility needs or questions, please email info@loweradkpride.org.
TRANSPORTATION:
This event is eligible for Lower Adirondack Pride’s Ride With Pride program. For more information, click here.