Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law.
He is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. Bella Terra Press published a Spanish edition in 2016.
In 2015, Dean released a one-hour video documentary, Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!, which can be watched free online with English captions or subtitles in several languages.
Dean’s book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next) was published by Verso Press in October 2020. It is also out in Spanish, Czech, German, Catalan, Italian, Thai, Korean, and Portuguese.
Dean’s new book, Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together, will be out in January 2025 and can be pre-ordered now with the discount code F<3CKED from Bluestockings Bookstore.
Other videos are available on this site, as well as many of Dean’s articles, interviews, book chapters, and syllabi.