Love in a Fucked Up World (Preorder) How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together

Dean Spade (Author)

Special Price $16.99 was $19.99

Publisher: Algonquin Books
Format: Book
Binding: pb
Pages: 352
Released: January 14, 2025
ISBN-13: 9781643756462

Available mid-January. Preorder now and we'll ship it as soon as we get our grubby hands on it!

Around the globe, people are faced with spiraling crises, from the pandemic and climate change-induced disasters to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, genocide, racist policing, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. More and more of us feel mobilized to fight back, often dedicating our lives to  collective liberation. But even those of us who long for change seem to have trouble when it comes to interpersonal relationships. Too often we think of our political values as outward-facing positions again dominant systems of power.  Many 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 from cultural programming that gives us harmful expectations about sex, dating, romance and friendship? How do we recover from the messed up dynamics we were trained in by childhood caregivers? How do we bring our best thinking about freedom into step with our desires for healing and connection? 

Love in a Fucked-Up World is a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, so we can stick together while we work for survival and liberation.

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