CZM Book Club: Mutual Aid by Dean Spade, Part Two
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🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 45 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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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:11.2 | Book club, |
| 0:12.1 | a club, |
| 0:13.0 | a club. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello, and welcome to Coolzone Media Book Club. |
| 0:16.9 | The only book club where you don't have to do the mutual aid organizing because I do it. |
| 0:22.1 | No, no, that's not our tagline. |
| 0:25.2 | If you want to do some mutual aid organizing, then the book we are reading this week and last week is a good place to start. |
| 0:33.6 | Dean Spade's book Mutual Aid. |
| 0:36.6 | This book that we're reading excerpts from last week and this week, 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 |
| 0:54.1 | or not a people person, that's fine. There's a role for you too. Plus, socializing is a muscle |
| 1:00.2 | and it is a thing that you can exercise and practice and get better at. And so mutual aid is a |
| 1:05.2 | really good way to do that. Anyway, welcome to book club. The only book club where you don't have to |
| 1:10.1 | read all of Dean Spade's amazing book about how to do mutual book club where you don't have to read all of Dean |
| 1:10.9 | Spade's amazing book about how to do mutual aid work, because I'm going to read parts of it |
| 1:15.6 | to you. |
| 1:16.6 | And since this is part two, we're going to be covering the second half of the book today. |
| 1:21.6 | Last week, Dean Spade, the author of the book, has talked to us about some different definitions |
| 1:26.1 | of mutual aid and established some important traits of mutual aid. |
| 1:29.8 | To recap that. |
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