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

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to….

I see the concepts spatially in my mind. I see the boxes and corrals and grids into which administrative systems require people, things and informati….

I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be a goal..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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….