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The average life span of a transgender person is twenty-three years. The statistic is shocking, until it begins to form sense. Gender non-conformists confront routine exclusion and force. Transgender people are disproportionately poor, homeless, and incarcerated. Many of the systems and facilities intended to help low-income people are sex-segregated and thereby alienate those who don’t comply with state-imposed categories. A trans woman may not be able to secure a bed in a homeless shelter, for example. Spade writes that just as the feminist movement tended to “focus on gender-universalized white women’s encounter as ‘women’s experience,’” the lesbian- and gay-rights movement has focused primarily on a white, middle-class politic, centered on marriage and mainstream social mores.
In 2002, Spade founded Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the first center of its thoughtful, which provides free legal services to low-income trans person and gender non-conforming people and advocates for policy reform
Confronting the Limits of Homosexual Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique
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Questioning the emancipatory potential of hate crimes activism for sexual and gender non-normative people, this paper outlines the limits of criminal justice remedies to problems of gender, race, economic and sexual subordination. The first section considers some of the positive impacts of detest crimes activism, focusing on the benefits of legal "naming" for disenfranchised constituencies seeking political recognition. In the next section the authors outline the political shortcomings and troubling consequences of hate crimes advocacy. First, they examine how hate crimes activism is situated within a "mainstream gay agenda," a designation they use to designate the set of projects prioritized by large, national gay rights organizations. The authors question the assimilationist drive of mainstream queer activism, and illustrate how such activism fails to reflect commitments to anti-racism, feminism, and economic redistribution. Second, they critique how the rhetoric of despise crimes activism isolates specific instances of violence against queer and transgender people, categorizing these as acts of individual p
This is an extraordinary moment for the lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement. Electoral gains, a pending Supreme Court argument, a friendly national Administration, a community that seems to be more out, and gains in widespread opinion all attest to significant change in the status queer. Yet, a critical look at the movement’s goals, practices, institutions, leaders, and arguments suggests the narrative of triumph is incomplete. Two of the leading critical thinkers and activists in the LGBT movement–Dean Spade and Urvashi Vaid–meet in a provocative conversation moderated by academic, performance artist, and activist Rosamond S. King to ask and acknowledge key questions about today’s queer practice.
Does a politics pursuing equal rights make freedom or an accommodation to neoliberal economic and political norms? Why does the LGBT movement avoid structural racism? Has queerness bound itself to nationalism and anti-feminism in direct to be normalized? How can the structure of the civil rights company form itself be democratized? Where are the unused practices of organizing, cultural expression, and resistance? Three veteran queer acti
Trans-Rights Scholar/Activist Dean Spade Speaks at PLU Nov. 3
October 13, 2015
By PLU Marketing & Communications
TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University will host a lecture by Seattle University School of Law Professor Dean Spade, a primary scholar and activist in trans rights. His talk, “Romantic Notions: Soldiers, Spouses and the Limits of LGBT Equality,” will be held at 6 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at PLU.
The event, which is free, is sponsored by PLU’s Women’s Center, the Women’s and Gender Studies program and the Diversity Center.
The last 40 years of queer and trans politics has seen a harsh shift, Spade says: Much of 1960s and ’70s gay and trans advocacy had complex and explicit ties to anti-war and anti-police movements, as good as to feminist disruptions of traditional gender roles, including militarized masculinities. Today, a highly apparent, corporate-funded gay and lesbian rights agenda declares that the key demands of queer and transsexual politics are to be offered entry into legal marriage and the military.
Anti-colonial, feminist and anti-racist queer and transsexual activists and scholars contest t
By McGill Reporter Staff
Dean Spade is a lawyer, civil rights activist, and Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches Administrative Regulation, Poverty Law, and Law and Social Movements. Before joining the faculty at Seattle, he taught classes related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and regulation and social movements at UCLA Rule School and Harvard Law School as a Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow. In 2002, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Venture, a non-profit commandment collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income, people of color, or both. His book Normal Life: Administrative Aggression, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law was published in 2011.
Spade will be one of three panelists at the event Radical Formations: Sex, Race, Trans on Friday, April 12, 4-5:30 pm in the McIntyre Medical Building, Room 522 (reception to follow). The panel is presented by Professor Robert Leckey, William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Law, and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Gender Studies. For more information or to register, please travel here.
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