Climate, healthcare, human rights, work—we are looking at challenges on every front. “And the reality is,” writes lifelong activist Dean Spade, “we’re going to need each other more than ever.” That means that we had better get our interpersonal house in order. And to that end, Spade has written Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. It’s just out from Algonquin Press. Spade is a lawyer, educator, and author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law. He’s the director of Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back! And in 2002, he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York City, a law collective that provides free legal services to trans and gender non-conforming people who are low income and, or people of color. “The famous feminist slogan, ‘The personal is political’ is correct,” writes Spade. “It matters what happens in our intimate lives. It matters for us and for the people and causes we care about.” What’s love got to do with it? A lot.
—Laura Flanders
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