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

- Dean Spade

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

- Dean Spade

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…

- Dean Spade

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

- Dean Spade

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

- Dean Spade

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…

- Dean Spade

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…

- Dean Spade

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

- Dean Spade

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

- Dean Spade