One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial,… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I am thoughtful about introducing terms that tend to be in circulation primarily in academic circles. "Homonormativity" and "homonationalism" are by no… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
In recent years I have become more interested in making the critical ideas that I love teaching and talking about available in… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I see the concepts spatially in my mind. I see the boxes and corrals and grids into which administrative systems require people,… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression. — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal reform strategies encourage… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university. — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better. — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements,… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
