CZM Book Club: Mutual Aid by Dean Spade, Part One

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🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Margaret reads you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aid.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	Cool Zone Media.
0:11.2	Book club.
0:12.2	Book club.
0:14.3	Hello.
0:15.2	Welcome to Coolzone Media Book Club.
0:16.9	The only book club where you don't have to do the reading, because I do it for you.
0:24.7	Normally on here we read fiction, but we've been talking about doing some nonfiction,
0:28.5	and so we're going to do it. We're going to do nonfiction.
0:33.8	This story isn't made up. It's factual.
0:38.0	I don't know if it's factual. I don't know if it's built out of facts. Whatever.
0:43.8	It is my absolute honor and delight to bring you some excerpts from Dean Spade's book,
0:49.2	Mutual Aid. The whole book is absolutely worth reading. If you don't want to read a book called Mutual Aid that's from 1900, you can read a book called Mutual Aid that's from this very decade that we live in.
0:56.3	It's a short, accessible, practical book full of really good advice for how to organize
1:00.7	just about anything, Dean Spade's Mutual Aid. And I know we're a little late for New Year's resolutions,
1:07.0	but if your resolution this year was to get involved in an activist project, this book is a great guide.
1:13.0	And we're not reading the whole thing.
1:14.3	You still have to go out and get it.
1:15.5	But we'll read useful parts of it.
1:18.1	And it just so happened that the schedule landed this way.
1:20.4	But it feels particularly poignant to do these episodes this week.
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