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Dean Spade, Autumn Brown, and R. Jessica Rosenberg joined Verso on May 11th to celebrate the new edition of Mutual Aid, discuss how aid efforts have changed between 2019 and 2026, the repression of Stop Cop City activists, and transitioning between acute and ongoing crises.
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Dean Spade has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation, anti-militarism, and police and prison abolition for the past 25 years. He is the author of Normal Life, Mutual Aid, and Love in a Fucked Up World.
Autumn Brown is a mother, movement leader, and musician, whose organizing work is rooted in Black feminist and fugitive freedom movements. For over 20 years she has organized for healing justice, developed movement strategy, and trained organizers in consensus process, facilitation, and racial justice. Autumn is a 2020 Auburn Seminary Lives of Commitment Honoree and recipient of the 2025 Margaret Brent Award. She lives on Dakota land in Minneapolis, MN, where she co-hosts the podcast How to Survive the End of the World. Her forthcoming book, Temper: Practicing Freedom in an Unfree World (St. Martin’s Essentials, 2026), offers wisdom and teaching on cultivating inner freedom and way finding toward liberation, even when the way is uncertain.
Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg is a teacher, writer and organizer on Dakota land in South Minneapolis. She became a rabbi in order to learn diverse and nuanced histories, tell stories, and create spaces, ritual, and organizing that helps transform our relationships to past, present and future. She is co-author, alongside Rabbi Ariana Katz, of For Times Such As These: A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year. She is a founding collective member of Signal Fire Radical Jewish Artist Cooperative, a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council, a ritual leader and organizing collective member of World to Come - Twin Cities.
Dean Spade, Autumn Brown, and R. Jessica Rosenberg joined Verso on May 11th to celebrate the new edition of Mutual Aid, discuss how aid efforts have changed between 2019 and 2026, the repression of Stop Cop City activists, and transitioning between acute and ongoing crises.
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Dean Spade has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation, anti-militarism, and police and prison abolition for the past 25 years. He is the author of Normal Life, Mutual Aid, and Love in a Fucked Up World.
Autumn Brown is a mother, movement leader, and musician, whose organizing work is rooted in Black feminist and fugitive freedom movements. For over 20 years she has organized for healing justice, developed movement strategy, and trained organizers in consensus process, facilitation, and racial justice. Autumn is a 2020 Auburn Seminary Lives of Commitment Honoree and recipient of the 2025 Margaret Brent Award. She lives on Dakota land in Minneapolis, MN, where she co-hosts the podcast How to Survive the End of the World. Her forthcoming book, Temper: Practicing Freedom in an Unfree World (St. Martin’s Essentials, 2026), offers wisdom and teaching on cultivating inner freedom and way finding toward liberation, even when the way is uncertain.
Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg is a teacher, writer and organizer on Dakota land in South Minneapolis. She became a rabbi in order to learn diverse and nuanced histories, tell stories, and create spaces, ritual, and organizing that helps transform our relationships to past, present and future. She is co-author, alongside Rabbi Ariana Katz, of For Times Such As These: A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year. She is a founding collective member of Signal Fire Radical Jewish Artist Cooperative, a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council, a ritual leader and organizing collective member of World to Come - Twin Cities.
