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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Society & Culture, History

4.7902 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Margaret continues to read you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aid

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Club,

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the club,

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a club,

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hello, and welcome to Goalson Media Book Club.

0:47.0

The only book club

0:47.9

where you don't have to do

0:48.7

the mutual aid organizing

0:50.7

because I do it.

0:52.3

No, no, that's not our tagline. If you want to do some mutual aid

0:57.9

organizing, then the book we are reading this week and last week is a good place to start. Dean

1:04.0

Spade's book Mutual Aid. This book that we're reading excerpts from last week and this week,

1:09.8

but you should go out and read the whole book. This book, Mutual Aid, will teach you a lot of the most basic skills that you need for this work. It tends to be more forward-facing and easy to get involved with Mutual Aid, and it's a great way to get connected to other folks doing good work around the scene. If you're shy or not a people person, that's fine. There's a role for you too. Plus, socializing is a muscle and it is a thing that you can exercise and practice and get better at. And so mutual aid is a really good way to do that. Anyway, welcome to book club. The only book club where you don't have to read all of Dean Spade's amazing book about how to do mutual aid work, because I'm going

1:44.9

to read parts of it to you. And since this is part two, we're going to be covering the second

1:50.0

half of the book today. Last week, Dean Spade, the author of the book, has talked to us about some

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