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.”
For Lovers and Fighters
My essay “For Lovers and Fighters” was published in We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, edited by Melody Berger (2006).
A Polish translation of this essay is available here.
A Spanish translation is available here.
Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy
My article “Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy” was published in Transgender Rights: History, Politics and Law, edited by Paisley Currah, Shannon Minter, Richard Juang (2006).
Panel Transcript: The Identity Victim
Here is a transcript of a panel I participated in called “The Identity Victim” as part of Sex, Gender and Crime: The Politics of the State as Protector and Punisher, a symposium at Georgetown University, and republished in Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law in 2006. You can read the transcript here.
Once More… With Feeling
My essay “Once More… With Feeling” was published in Inside Out: FTM and Beyond, edited by Morty Diamond, (2004).
Excerpt:
Transecting the Academy, with Sel Wahng
I co-authored with Sel Wahng “Transecting the Academy” in GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies in 2004. You can read the full text online or download it here.
Abstract
This piece, co-authored with Sel Wahng, was part of a set of essays published together under the title “Thinking Sex/Thinking Gender.” In this article, we explore how identity politics that underwrite many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender discourses have proved limiting in regard to potential political alliances and social change. We address this concern by looking at the questions under consideration in this forum through a particular lens: how bodies and identities interact and intersect with modern formations of power. Through this mode of inquiry we seek to relate supposedly disparate elements for the purpose of making new social, political and scholarly connections.