Accountability Quote by Dean Spade

“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”

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Accountability Action Commitment Concern Deeper Desire Growth Intention Kind Love Love is Mutual Notion Our actions Real Relationship Relationships Respect Trust

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Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

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More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and…

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Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector…

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In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal reform strategies encourage…

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"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all…

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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.

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Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

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My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal…

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Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements,…

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One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who…

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

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Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.…

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Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

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I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

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It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.

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Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine;…

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This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without…

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Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me…

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“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it…

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The American people deserve accountability over wasteful spending, and we accomplish that by prioritizing taxpayer dollars in a responsive and responsible manner.

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