I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be a goal.
More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to na… - Dean Spade
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
Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state viole…
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
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…
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
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… - 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…
Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "ma… - Dean Spade
Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "ma…
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
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…
In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal ref… - Dean Spade
In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal ref…
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indi… - Dean Spade
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indi…
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