Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

7 reviews

kirstenf's review

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Bullying, Sexism, Hate crime, Violence, Ableism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Addiction, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Drug use, and Police brutality

alleahwebb's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Racism, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Police brutality

stevia333k's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I used a mixture of audiobook & TTS and it was much quicker with TTS 

So this is an instruction manual kind of. So that's good, and further there's activities for self care & group work in here. So this book gives me a lot of hope because I see this being able to be used in other contexts too 

Also it has notes on theory I've been trying to figure out for months now, so that's a relief to have an articulation for that & how workplace violence is to be anticipated (hence a lot of work on deescalation etc). That's going to be important as I search for information on supporting sex workers

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

kshertz's review

informative fast-paced

4.0

It’s a super quick read that really helps people to understand mutual aid. As someone who is involved in mutual aid and wanting to invite others into mutual aid it was super helpful. I really appreciated how it explained the differences between mutual aid and charity. It definitely confirms my love for mutual aid and I hope that mutual aid will one day replace all charity.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Police brutality and Racism

lucy12345's review

medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Violence

Minor: Drug use

zombiezami's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

I liked this overall. I wish, though, that the author had addressed the ways that hierarchy can inadvertently crop up in purportedly non-hierarchical activist spaces. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Police brutality, Xenophobia, Confinement, Ableism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Mental illness, Violence, Drug use, and Classism

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brnineworms's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

“Activism and mutual aid shouldn’t feel like a hobby—it should feel like living in alignment with our hopes for the world and with our passions. It should enliven us.”

Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid is an extraordinarily useful guide. It’s accessible, digestible, and more helpful than I can put into words. Despite its brevity, it offers a far better explanation of the concept than Kropotkin’s famous book of the same name, and it goes on to identify common pitfalls and give advice on how to avoid them, introduce the consensus process, and offer a few suggestions on how to mitigate conflict and burnout.

A vital resource for those new to mutual aid and activism, as well as those who have been involved for a while – we all have room to improve, and this book is full of good insights and prompts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Classism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Racism, Ableism, Colonisation, Misogyny, and Addiction

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Xenophobia, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Transphobia