I wrote “Notes Toward Racial and Gender Justice Ally Practice in Legal Academia,” in Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, edited by Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Angela P. Harris, Carmen Gonzalez and Yolanda Niemann, and published by Utah University Press in 2012. You can read it here.
American Quarterly just published an conversation between me, Eric A. Stanley and the authors of Queer (In)Justice. You can download it here. Speaking of abolition, last week’s public forum about King County’s plans to pour a ton of money into rehabilitating our youth jail and the court buildings where kids of color get sentenced to jail and parents of color get their kids taken away was very contentious. I wrote something about what happened and why the forum should not have been shut down here.
In other news, Normal Life is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award! Some of the finalists in the Seattle region are reading together on April 25 at 7pm at Vermillion. Hope to see you there!
Toward a Critical Trans Politics: An Interview with Dean Spade by Rob Nichols, published in Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action, Number 14, 2012.
A few recent things to share: Here is a link to a radio interview between me and the brilliant and inspiring activist-scholars Eric Stanley and Reina July about trans politics and prison abolition that took place in January on Romantic Friendship radio. I also want to share this open letter created by activist from a recent LGBTQ delegation to Palestine that I participated in in January. Please sign on! Below is a photo from my trip–a mural on a part of the separation wall. I’m working on creating some writing about my trip to share with photos that will hopefully be posted here soon. Finally, Toshio Meronek recently interviewed Eric Stanley and I about Captive Genders and Normal Life in advance of our trip to speak at UC Davis. You can read Toshio’s article here.
Normal Life is available in stores now! I hope you’ll order it from your independent bookstore.
I’ve just posted an article I wrote for a 2010 symposium about the impact of Judith Butler’s work on legal scholarship that was recently published by the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. I welcome feedback!
Morgan Bassichis, Alex Lee, and I co-authored “Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got” in the anthology Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric Stanley and Nat Smith. A Mandarin translation is available here: 全力打造一個以廢除為目標的跨性／酷兒運動).
Learn more about Captive Genders here.
The exciting new online journal, feminists@law, recently published their first issue. I wrote a little essay in there about what feminist legal theorists might learn from science fiction.
