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

Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state viole….

One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people….

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

I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as….

Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indi….

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

Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "ma….

Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a p….

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

Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to….

We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves us away f….

Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's….

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should ta….

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

Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their Nor….

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, b….

It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our pri….

We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing ….

When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm or will it primarily….

There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and….