Episode 177: "Kin-Making in Disaster's Wake" ft. Jimmy Dunson

Coffee with Comrades

I recently sat down with my dear friend and comrade, Jimmy Dunson, who put together an anthology on mutual aid, disaster relief, and building dual-power called Building Power While the Lights Are Out. The anthology is gripping and brilliant and the two of us have a wide-ranging conversation on a number of the essays contained within the anthology. We talk about mutual aid as the process of making kin, the ways mutual aid is becoming less of a niche thing that just anarchists dressed all in black do, and the ways we can build dual-power both before and after a natural disaster.

• Pick up a copy of Building Power While the Lights are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power.
• You can donate to Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on PayPal by sending funds to [e-mail].
• You can support MADR on Venmo at @mutualaiddisasterrelief.
• You can also support their work on MADR’s Action Network.
• Enter our MADR Fundraiser to win a copy of Bloc by Bloc: Uprising!
  • Send a screenshot of your donation via DM to Coffee with Comrades’ Twitter or Instagram by 10/7/22 @ 12pm EST.
  • Find out more about Bloc by Bloc by listening to Ep. 158 and Ep. 22.
• Visit Mutual Aid Disaster Relief’s website and follow them on Twitter and Instagram.
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations!
• Our logo was designed by Nathanael Whale.