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SUMMARY:A More Love Event
LOCATION:Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library\nCleveland Park Neighborhood 
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DESCRIPTION:Join longtime activists and collaborators Dean Spade and Jaime
  M. Grant as they reflect upon the hundreds of conversations they've had o
 n the road this year talking about their books..\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Join longtime activists and collaborators 
 Dean Spade (Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships\, Hook U
 p\, and Raise Hell Together) and Jaime M. Grant (Polyamory For Dummies) as
  they reflect upon the hundreds of conversations they've had on the road t
 his year talking about their books.&nbsp\; Let's talk about love\, movemen
 t conflicts\, polyamory\, resistance\, hooking up\, activist resilience\, 
 pleasure\, and friendship! &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>How are you dealing with the ma
 laise brought on by intensifying authoritarianism?&nbsp\; What are you doi
 ng with your sense of exhaustion and isolation?&nbsp\; Come enjoy insights
 \, laughter\, hip tips for survival and thrival\, and community.</p>\n<p>&
 nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<h4><strong>About the Books</strong></h4>\n<p><strong>
 Polyamory for Dummies</strong>: Polyamory literally means &ldquo\;more lov
 e&rdquo\;. Twenty-first century polyamory is the practice of engaging in m
 ultiple intimate relationships at the same time\, with the full consent of
  all partners. Polyamory For Dummies gives you the lowdown on this expansi
 ve form of consensual non-monogamy\, so you can go forth and prosper in wh
 atever ways you choose. This straightforward\, research-backed\, and nuanc
 ed guidebook helps the poly-curious become poly-fluent.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><st
 rong>Love in a F*cked-Up World</strong>: Lifelong activist and educator De
 an Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separat
 e from our politics of liberation and resistance. Many activist projects a
 nd resistance groups fall apart because people treat each other poorly\, t
 rying desperately to live out the cultural myths about dating and relation
 ships that we are fed from an early age. How do we divest from the idea th
 at one romantic partner will be the solution to all our problems? How do w
 e bring our best thinking about freedom and justice into step with our des
 ires for healing and connection?&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<h4><s
 trong>About the Authors and Conversation Partners</strong></h4>\n<p><stron
 g>Dr. Jaime M. Grant</strong>\, author of Injustice at Every Turn: A Repor
 t of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey\, and&nbsp\;Great Sex:
  Mapping Your Desire\, is an equity expert\, researcher and trainer who ha
 s been active in LGBTQ\, women&rsquo\;s and racial justice movements since
  the late 80s. Having survived sexist violence and anti-lesbian disownment
  as a youth\, Dr. Grant became a go-to resource on gender and sex among he
 r peers and colleagues as a matter of survival.</p>\n<p><strong>Dean Spade
 </strong>&nbsp\;has been working to build queer and trans liberation based
  in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professo
 r at the Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of&nbsp\;Norma
 l Life: Administrative Violence\, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits o
 f Law. Bella Terra Press published a&nbsp\;Spanish edition&nbsp\;in 2016. 
 In 2015\, Dean released a one-hour video documentary\,&nbsp\;Pinkwashing E
 xposed: Seattle Fights Back!\, which can be watched free online with Engli
 sh captions or subtitles in several languages. Dean&rsquo\;s book\,&nbsp\;
 Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next)&nbsp\;wa
 s published by&nbsp\;Verso Press&nbsp\;in October 2020.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Aut
 hor has requested masks to be worn. This is not mandatory but appreciated.
 &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Copies of the books will be sold and available for signing
  after the talk courtesy of the DC Public Library Foundation.</p>\nhttps:/
 /dclibrary.libnet.info/event/13038320
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