Let This Radicalize You, Kelly Hayes
Let This Radicalize You, Kelly Hayes
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Let This Radicalize You
Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Author: Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

Narrator: Diana Blue

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/16/2023


Synopsis

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.

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 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.

About Kelly Hayes

Kelly Hayes is the host of Truthout's podcast Movement Memos and a contributing writer at Truthout. Kelly's written work can also be found in Teen Vogue, Bustle, Yes! Magazine, Pacific Standard, NBC Think, her blog Transformative Spaces, The Appeal, the anthology The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail At Showing Up For Each Other In the Fight For Freedom, and Truthout's anthology on movements against state violence, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Kelly is also a direct action trainer and cofounder of the direct action collective Lifted Voices. Kelly was honored for her organizing and education work in 2014 with the Women to Celebrate award, and in 2018 with the Chicago Freedom School's Champions of Justice Award. Kelly's movement photography is featured in "Freedom and Resistance" exhibit of the DuSable Museum of African American History.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stitching on December 01, 2023

While this book was intended for people who are new to being activists or looking to move from mere activism to organizing I think it's a must read for people who joined movements at times of high intensity who feel kind of lost about the where to next when the protests die down or who have felt bur......more

Goodreads review by Clare on November 27, 2023

Full disclosure: I went into Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba’s Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care almost not wanting to like it, since it’s been praised to the skies and I get concerned about people just reading whatever they want into things. On the other hand......more

Goodreads review by andrevv on September 04, 2023

very tiny summary: Would recommend this book to anyone looking to make change, learn about strategic ways for making change and building power, and be in just relationships and community. this book is by two very seasoned, transformative, and radical organizers on how to be strategic to make impact a......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on March 11, 2025

This was inspiring and broadly educational about the work of organizers and activists while also giving clear and concrete advice on how to do this work. I didn’t realize it was such a guidebook for organizers, and as I do not yet see myself taking on that explicit role in my communities, I didn’t f......more

Goodreads review by Kiki on September 25, 2024

This was an inspiring book that gave many concrete examples of ways organizers fight against systemic oppression. There were several ideas I loved: the idea that no one person has the solution for an abolitionist future, it's a collective vision (pg xii / pg 181); the importance of building a commun......more