Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) is an accessible guidebook meant to inspire local organizing efforts based in mutual care, generosity, and dependency. By reflecting on contemporary contexts in which people are increasingly individualized and rendered dependent on inadequate government support systems, Mutual Aid demonstrates that sharing and cohesion are radical steps toward liberation. On this basis, we are reminded that contemporary social crises can usher in the normalization of interdependent community engagement, inspiring lasting social movements built upon mutual aid.
Articles by Paul Centorame
I am a graduate research assistant and MA student in the Socio-Legal Studies program at York University. My academic interests include Foucaultian theory, LGBTQ+ rights, homonationalism, and governmentality. In my current research project, I examine how queer inclusion in Canadian law has discursively rearticulated same-sex relationships in terms of their potential for responsibility, productivity, and respectability. In conversation with other scholars who work at the intersection of governmentality and LGBTQ+ rights, I hypothesize that it is through a legal discourse of "love" that queer rights are constituted such that their very exercise ascertains commitments to care-giving, nation-building, and other elements of the prevailing neoliberal social order.