The Mutual Aid Podcast

Jan 29 2025 5 ep. 85 mins 63
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The podcast where we discuss all things mutual aid: as practice, history, theory, and much more. Every week we will hold space to talk about our experience and knowledge about mutual aid, as well as interviewing activists, revolutionaries, and scholars who will provide new, unique, and inspirational insights and examples. This podcast is part of the From The Periphery media collective. Become a member of our Patron today: patreon.com/fromtheperiphery Credits: Artwork - Hisham Rifai Music - Beit Youssef and Ramsey Khudairi Hosts - israa and Ayman

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5. A Conversation with Mx.Yaffa

Jan 29 2025 118 mins  
In this episode of The Mutual Aid Podcast israa’ and Ayman speak with Yaffa. Their conversation weaves theory and practice as they tease out defining characteristics of mutual aid and clarify how mutual aid, resource distribution, and community care differ and interact with each other. Yaffa’s expansive experience as an organizer and writer helps us dig into the technicalities

4. A Conversation with Dean Spade

Dec 31 2024 81 mins  
This week we talked with Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in this Crisis (and the Next). Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice 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

3. What is Mutual Aid? A History

Dec 04 2024 72 mins  
In this episode, israa & Ayman share what they know about the history of mutual aid, as a term and practice. While neither of us is a historian, we attempt to track the use of the term throughout history and the way it shows up in different societies. From Kropotkin to Omar Aziz to the Black Panthers, Sudanese Resistance Committee, and Syrian Local Councils, we share our unders

2. What is Mutual Aid? Theory and Practice

Nov 18 2024 94 mins  
In this episode, israa and Ayman provide an overview of what we mean we talk about mutual aid. We provide a theoretical framework with many practical and tangible examples. This expansive conversation attempts to weave our understanding and experience with mutual aid with a wider exploration that stretches time, geographies, and societies. -- -- Become a member of our Patreon to

1. Introductions

Nov 08 2024 58 mins  
Welcome to The Mutual Aid Podcast. Join Ayman and israa every week as they discuss, share, and explore all things mutual aid. In this intro episode they talk about the reasons they started this project, what the project even is, and their experience, history, and positionally with mutual aid in general. They also discuss what you can expect from this project in the future and the n