Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes

Let This Radicalize You

Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia

Haymarket Books · Print & ebook · May 26, 2023

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing?

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Who it’s for
A grounded, imaginative look at what sustains organizing when the world feels unstable.
Genres
Activism & Social Justice, Feminist Theory & Criticism, Radical Politics
Published
Haymarket Books, May 26, 2023

About this book

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

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Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both state violence and environmental disaster. The book is an assemblage of co-authored reflections, interviews and questions that are intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own journeys through the work of justice-making. It includes insights from a spectrum of experienced organizers, including Sharon Lungo, Carlos Saavedra, Ejeris Dixon, Barbara Ransby, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore about some of the difficult and joyous lessons they have learned in their work.

Care and Power

A grounded, imaginative look at what sustains organizing when the world feels unstable.

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  • Practical reflections on organizing through crisis
  • Mutual aid, protest, and the work of reciprocal care

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  • Co-authored reflections, interviews, and questions
  • Hard-won lessons on justice-making, care, rescue, and defense

Where it sits

Activism & Social Justice82%
Radical Politics41%
Feminist Theory & Criticism40%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Black & African American Lives
  • Radical Politics
  • Feminist Theory & Criticism
Authors
Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Published
May 26, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Black & African American Lives