I wrote “Trans Law Reform Strategies, Co-Optation, and the Potential for Transformative Change” in Women’s Rights Law Reporter in 2009. You can read it here.
Exile and Pride: Afterword to the 2009 Edition
Here is the afterword I wrote to the 2009 edition of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare.
Keynote Address: Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape
I wrote “Keynote Address: Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape” in Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review in 2009. You can read it here.
Abstract
These edited Keynote remarks from the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review Symposium on transgender law address how questions of law reform strategy relate to critical understandings of neoliberalism. The paper addresses questions of administrative governance, identity documentation, the relationship between law and social movements, and questions of economic and racial justice as applied to transgender politics.
Trans Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape: A Lecture by Dean Spade
Question Inevitability: Does Seattle Need A New Jail? A Lecture by Dean Spade
Trans/formation
I wrote this article in Los Angeles Lawyer called “Trans/formation” on three harmful myths about trans people.
Download it here.
Two Special Issues of Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC
Paisley Currah and I co-edited the two-part special issue “The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy” in Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC Vol. 4. No. 4 (December 2007) and Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2008).
Read the introduction to the first volume here and read the introduction to the second volume here. A table of contents for both issues and links to most of the articles are below.
Part 1 (December 2007): Table of Contents
Introduction to Special Issue The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part 1, Paisley Currah and Dean Spade
Unraveling Injustice: Race and Class Impact of Medicaid Exclusions of Transition-Related Health Care for Transgender People, Pooja S. Gehi and Gabriel Arkles
Sex Workers, Fem Queens, and Cross-Dressers: Differential Marginalizations and HIV Vulnerabilities Among Three Ethnocultural Male-to-Female Transgender Communities in New York City, Sel Julian Hwahng and Larry Nuttbrock
Seeking Refuge Under the Umbrella: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Organizing Within the Category Transgender, Megan Davidson
Transgender Health Benefits: Collateral Damage in the Resolution of the National Health Care Financing Dilemma, R. Nick Gorton
Momentum: A Photo Essay of the Transgender Community in the United States Over 30 Years, 1978–2007, Mariette Pathy Allen
Part 2 (March 2008): Table of Contents
Introduction to Special Issue The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part 2, Dean Spade and Paisley Currah
Talking, Gawking, or Getting It Done: Provider Trainings to Increase Cultural and Clinical Competence for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Patients and Clients, Christoph Hanssmann, Darius Morrison, and Ellery Russian
Gender Identity and Hate Crimes: Violence Against Transgender People in Los Angeles County, Rebecca L. Stotzer
The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Trans Resistance, Rickke Mananzala and Dean Spade
And by the Way, Do You Know He Thinks He’s a Girl? The Failures of Law, Policy, and Legal Representation for Transgender Youth in Juvenile Delinquency Courts, Jody Marksamer
Documenting Gender
I wrote Documenting Gender, published in Hastings Law Journal in 2009. This article was awarded the 2008 Dukeminier Award and reprinted in UCLA Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law. You can read it here.
The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Trans Resistance, with Rickke Mananzala
I co-authored “The Non-Profit Industrial Complex and Trans Resistance” with Rickke Mananzala in Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of National Sexuality Resource Center published in December 2007. You can read it here.
Methodologies of Trans Resistance
Here is a chapter I contributed to the Blackwell Companion to LGBT/Q Studies (2007) called “Methodologies of Trans Resistance.”