Public Lecture: Dean Spade - Resisting Work and Resistance Work
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
Our lives are shaped by coercive structures determined to extract as much as possible from people and the planet. Growing precarity, combined with increased surveillance, social isolation and atomization, are generating a widespread sensation of avoidance of work of all kinds--not just wage work, but also housework, care work, organizing work, creative work. Avoidance is a meaningful, appropriate response to coercive extraction. But what happens when it shows up in all the other places where we do activities to reproduce our lives, care for each other, and fight back against the people and institutions who are bent on ecocide? In this talk, Dean Spade look at the question of work, examining how the relationships set up in wage work impact our experiences of care and resistance work, and what this means in a time when we need to take bold, courageous action together so badly.
Following Dean’s talk,we will have short responses from Dr Shreeta Lakhani (SOAS) and Chris Lehmann (Birkbeck) followed by questions and discussion from the audience.
This event will be hybrid. Online attendees will be sent the joining link prior to the event. Please choose standard for in-person tickets and online for online tickets.
The speaker has requested that in-person attendees wear a mask for accessibility reasons. Masks will be available at the event.
Contact name: Tanya Serisier
Speakers-
Dean Spade
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Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation and end policing, border enforcement, and war for the past 25 years. He is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law, and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next), and the director of Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!, which can be watched free online with English captions or subtitles in several languages. His newest book is Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. You can listen to his new podcast here.
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Dr Sarah Lamble
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Sarah Lamble is a Professor of Queer Theory and Criminology in the School of Social Sciences
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Dr Tanya Serisier
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Tanya Serisier is Director of BiGS and a Professor Feminist Theory in the School of Social Sciences
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