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In this conversation with Dean Spade we resolve a long-running challenge in my understanding: when https://www.yourparentingmojo.com/othering (we talked with Dr. john powell on the topic of Othering and Belonging) a couple of years ago we discussed how volunteering promotes othering, because it perpetuates the idea that the volunteer is a person with resources to give, and the recipient has little in the way of useful knowledge or resources of their own.  Dr. powell agreed, but we didn’t have time to discuss what to do instead.   In this episode we finally punch out that lingering https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/the-legacy-of-hanging-chads (hanging chad) of knowledge and talk with Dean Spade about the concept of mutual aid, which is the topic of his book: http://www.deanspade.net/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next/ (Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And The Next)).  In this conversation we discuss:   What is mutual aid, and how it’s mor