Romance Is A Myth With Dean Spade @ Fireweed Collective

February 14, 2021 @ 6:00PM — 8:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Dismantling The Romance Myth. The Revolution Is My Personfriend. Presented By Dean Spade

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6 PM EST/ 3 PM PST. Register To Receive The Recording

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This webinar will offer a chance to unpack the romance myth's messages and harms, and to imagine alternative ways to relate to each other grounded in radical values of mutuality, accountability, community care, generosity, and abundance.
The cultural mythology around romance that many of us have been immersed in all our lives is a brutal and damaging one. This myth is reproduced by and backs up corporate media, diet and beauty industries, and the legal marriage system that determines things like who has healthcare, housing, and immigration status. Interpersonally, the romance myth is used to justify isolation, harmful behavior, and disposability. Many of us have experienced, in our social movement spaces, families, and friend groups, people acting their worst when it comes to romantic and sexual connections. Many of us can identify that we show our worst behavior to people when we are under the influence of this myth.
This webinar will have simultaneous Spanish and ASL interpretation and live transcription.

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Dean Spade is a trans activist, writer, and teacher. Dean has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He works as an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law.

Dean’s book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law was published by South End Press in 2011. A second edition with new writing was published in 2015 by Duke University Press. Bella Terra Press published a Spanish edition in 2016. In 2015, Dean released a one-hour video documentary, Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!, which can be watched free online with English captions or subtitles in several languages. Dean’s new book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next) is forthcoming from Verso Press in October 2020. Read more in Dean's website.
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Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens. We help support the emotional wellness of all people and center the needs of those most marginalized by our society. Our work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression, often reproduced by the mental health system. Learn more about us.

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