I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking… — 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
There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out… — 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
I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming"… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many… — 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
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
