the dirty details of my new salary

by dean spade

I’ve continued to struggle about how to begin to write about all that I have been thinking about and struggling with in the face of my recent class shift.  It is so interesting that we started Enough during this shift for me, and I am eager to write for it and participate in the conversations we have been trying to initiate here and that I have been writing about for years, and suddenly I find myself so stumped about how to begin. There is so much to say, and also so much about this that is new and that requires new analysis and thinking for me, different from what I’ve thought and written about before as I struggled with the shift from childhood poverty to professionalism and non-profit salaries.

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Lessons from elders

I’ve had such an incredible week and have been wanting to write about it all on Enough, but I haven’t known how to organize the mile-a-minute thoughts in my head or talk about all the amazing conversations I’ve been having.

So first, I read this great new book called Arm The Spirit by Diana Block – have you seen it? It is a total standout in the genre of memoirs by white activists who went underground in the 60s and 70s (actually Diana fascinatingly went underground in the early 80s) to participate in militant revolutionary solidarity work. Diana was part of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and worked as a public activist for many years before she and several comrades decided to begin working clandestinely to support the Puerto Rican independence movement and other Third World struggles. Continue reading “Lessons from elders”

POOR Magazine’s Revolutionary Giving Seminar

I recently sent out a recruitment letter to a bunch of people in my life about this really exciting project being launched by the Race, Poverty, and Media Justice Institute at POOR Magazine, and I thought I would post it here because I know many Enough readers would be interested.

Many of you know POOR Magazine (or at least know how awesome I think they are), and I hope you might consider participating in this if it feels relevant to you. It’s been in the works for a long time and I’m so excited about it. Please tell anyone you think might want to be involved!

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