Step 1: Donate to Wesam Water Project here (suggested $40)

Step 2: Register for “Sticking Together in Tough Times” here

We are all feeling the stresses of state repression, worsening living conditions, and terrifying threats to our well-being and others.’

In times like these, relationships are often strained, people feel impatient, scared, distrustful, and angry and it can come out in our groups and between organizers. Facing ecocide and fascism, we need each other more than ever, to care for each other and fight back.

This workshop will identify some common patterns of emotional activation and conflict that emerge in political organizing, and provide tools for how we can work with them in ourselves, with friends, and in our groups so that we can hold each other with care.

Dean Spade has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation, anti-militarism, and police and prison abolition for the past 25 years. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) as well as the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!” His new book is Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together, and he is the host of a new podcast with the same name.