Mutual Aid is a way to meet people’s immediate needs while also investigating and challenging the root causes that produced those needs in the first place. Whether in response to natural disasters or persistent failures of the social safety net, mutual aid is a model that brings people together, builds authentic relationships and community in order to meet people’s immediate needs, while simultaneously centering the systems and institutions that make some folks more vulnerable than others.
Learn what Dean and Gabriel have to say about the importance of mutual aid to trans politics.
Dean Spade describes the importance of mutual aid under the Trump presidency.
Gabriel Foster describes the history of the Trans Justice Funding Project as an example of mutual aid.
Gabriel Foster describes the contours of the grassroots trans justice movement.
Want to learn more?
Videos
- A Mutual Aid Explainer Video by Dean Spade
- Mutual Aid is a People's Movement, by ASA 2020 Freedom Course
- Safe Neighborhood Campaign Safe Outside the System Collective
Articles
- "Friends in Need" by Rebecca Nathanson
- A mutual aid chart by Dean Spade
- "What is Mutual Aid?" by The Big Door Brigade
- "Mutual Aid Disaster Relief" by the Black Agenda Report
- "What is Mutual Aid?" by The Big Door Brigade
- "Interview with Ejeris Dixon" by the Black Agenda Report
- "'This is a community building': Local worker advocacy group opens space to offer mutual aid, organizing follow Floyd death" by Ben Rodgers
