Dean Spade (Keynote)
he/him
Fri May 29 | de Brakke Grond
Dean Spade’s book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), expands on practices of collective care and survival in times of crisis, while his most recent publication, Love in a Fucked Up World, turns towards relationships, intimacy, and sustained resistance. He will deliver the keynote speech during the first day of the Symposium at de Brakke Grond, on Friday May 29.
About the speaker
Dean Spade is a writer, educator, and organiser whose work focuses on queer and trans liberation grounded in racial and economic justice. Over the past two decades, he has been engaged in grassroots movements addressing issues such as mutual aid, prison abolition, and systemic inequality. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. Alongside his writing, Spade has produced and contributed to a range of educational and activist media, including the documentary Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back, as well as numerous lectures, workshops, and publications that bridge theory and practice.
