In his new book, Love in a F*cked-Up World, lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. For this virtual event, Dean will be joined in conversation by writer and mental health community worker Kai Cheng Thom to discuss how we can be the change we want to see—both out in the world, and in our closest connections.

Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together is a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, preparing us for the work of changing the world.

This event is a fundraiser for families in Gaza and attendees are asked to make a donation in lieu of ticket cost. ASL interpretation will be provided.

Dean Spade has been working for queer and trans liberation, prison abolition, and an end to war for 25 years. He is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) and the director of "Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!"

Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, somatic coach, and mediator based in Toronto/tkaronto. She is the author of the Lambda Award-nominated novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir, as well as the poetry collection A Place Called No Homeland. Her latest book, Falling Back in Love with Being Human, a collection of letters and poetry, is out now from Penguin Random House Canada.