On Liberating Our Relationships for a Better World: A Conversation With Dean Spade & Targol Mesbah

Описание: Thank your for joining us for our conversation with Dean and Targol. Explore key timings in the recording and more below:

💡 Key Timings:
Introductions: 13:39
Conversation: 15:24
Audience Q&A: 1:15:34

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DESCRIPTION: Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Many activist projects and resistance groups fall apart because people treat each other poorly, trying desperately to live out the cultural myths about dating and relationships that we are fed from an early age.

How do we divest ourselves from the idea that one romantic partner will be the solution to all our problems? How do we bring our best thinking about freedom and justice into step with our desires for healing and connection?

Join Dean and CIIS Associate Professor in Anthropology and Social Change and School of Consciousness and Transformation Targol Mesbah for a liberating conversation on how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, better preparing us for the work of changing the world. Dean shares from their latest book, Love in a F*cked-Up World, daring us to be the change we want to see—both out in the world and amongst our closest connections.

Originally recorded Friday, February 28, 2025

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