ARTICLES | ESSAYS, REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS | EDITED JOURNALS | BOOKS
Articles
Queer Militarism?!: The Politics of Military Inclusion in Authoritarian Times, with Aaron Belkin, GLQ 27:2 (2021).
Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival, Social Text 142, Vol. 38, No. 1, (2020).
Legal Equality, Gay Numbers and the (After?)Math of Eugenics, co-authored with Rori Rohlfs, in Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond, (2016).
Sex, Gender and War in the Age of Multicultural Imperialism, co-authored with Craig Willse, in QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, (2014).
Intersectional Resistance and Law Reform, in Signs, (2013).
Under the Cover of Gay Rights, N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change, (2013).
The Only Way to End Racialized Gender Violence in Prisons is to End Prisons: A Response to Russell Robinson’s Masculinity As Prison, The Circuit, December 18, 2012.
Notes Toward Racial and Gender Justice Ally Practice in Legal Academia, in Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for women in Academia (eds. Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Angela P. Harris, Carmen Gonzalez and Yolanda Niemann) (Utah University Press, 2012).
Laws as Tactics, 21 Colum. J. Gender & L. 442 (2011).
Be Professional!, 33 Harv. J. L. & Gender 71 (2010). (This article is a response to Bob Chang and Adrienne Davis’ article, “Making Up Is Hard to Do: Race/Gender/Sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom,” 33 Harv. J. L. & Gender 1 (2010)).
Trans Law Reform Strategies, Co-Optation, and the Potential for Transformative Change, 30 Women’s Rights L. R. 288 (2009).
Trans Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape, 18 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 353 (2009).
Documenting Gender, 59 Hastings L. J. 731 (2008), awarded the 2008 Dukeminier Award and reprinted in UCLA Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law.
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex and Trans Resistance, Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC (December 2007) (co-authored with Rickke Mananzala).
The Identity Victim, Symposium: Sex, Gender and Crime: The Politics of the State as Protector and Punisher, 7 Geo. J. Gender & L. (2006).
Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics, 11 Widener L. Rev. 309 (2005) (co-authored with Craig Willse).
Transecting the Academy, GLQ 10. 2 (2004): 240-53 (co-authored with Sel Wahng).
Resisting Medicine/Remodeling Gender, 18 Berkeley Women’s Law Journal 15 (2003) reprinted in Sexuality, Gender, and the Law, (2004) eds. William Eskridge and Nan Hunter.
Undeserving Addicts: SSI/SSD and the Penalties of Poverty, How. Scroll Soc. Just. L. Rev. 89 (2001).
Confronting the Limits of Gay Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique, 21 Chicano-Latino L. Rev. 38(2000) (co-authored with Craig Willse).
Anthologies and Chapters
We’re In This Together, introduction to the anthology Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, (ed. Lexie Bean) (2018)
Norms and Normalization, in The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Studies (eds. Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth) (co-authored with Craig Willse) (2015).
Law, in Keywords for American Cultural Studies (eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Helder) (NYU Press 2014).
Queer Politics and Anti-Blackness, co-authored with Morgan Bassichis, in Queer Necropolitics, edited by Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman and Silvia Posocco, (2014).
Too Queer to Be Square, in After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation, edited by Carolyn D’Cruz and Mark Pendleton, (2014).
Their Laws Will Never Make Us Safer, in Prisons Will Not Protect You (ed. Ryan Conrad) (AK Press 2012), Spanish translation by Morgan Ztardust.
Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got, in Captive Genders (ed. Eric Stanley and Nat Smith) (AK Press, 2011), (co-authored with Morgan Bassichis and Alex Lee) (Mandarin translation available here: 全力打造一個以廢除為目標的跨性／酷兒運動).
Afterword, Exile and Pride by Eli Clare, 15th Anniversary Edition (2009).
Methodologies of Trans Resistance, in Blackwell Companion to LGBT/Q Studies (2007).
For Lovers and Fighters, in We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, ed. Melody Berger (2006). (Polish translation of this essay here. Spanish translation here.)
Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy, in Transgender Rights: History, Politics and Law, eds. Paisley Currah, Shannon Minter, Richard Juang, (2006).
Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy, in Transgender Rights: History, Politics and Law, eds. Paisley Currah, Shannon Minter, Richard Juang, (2006).
Fighting to Win, in That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, ed. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, (2004).
Once More . . . with Feeling, in Inside Out: FTM and Beyond, ed. Morty Diamond, (2004).
My Memory and My Witness, in Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, ed. Michelle Tea, (2004) (co-authored with Elisabeth Goldschmidt).
Essays, Reviews, Interviews & Blog Posts
“‘Mutual aid is present in every crisis’: An Interview with Dean Spade,” by Oishik Sircar, Jindal Global Law Review, June 22, 2022.
“It’s Pinkwashing:” The Case Against LGBTQ+ Military Inclusion Explained, Them, Feb. 22, 2021.
Dean Spade on the Promise of Mutual Aid, The Nation, Dec. 16, 2020.
Dean Spade on How Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive Disaster, In These Times, Nov. 20, 2020.
Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive the Biden Presidency, Roar Magazine, Nov. 20, 2020.
Op-ed: Honor Our Stonewall Veterans by Being Your Most Queer Militant Self, Out Magazine, June 28, 2019.
Protecting Trans Rights in 2019, Interview on NPR’s 1A, June 4, 2019.
There’s Nothing Feminist about Imperialism, (co-authored with Sarah Lazare), Jacobin January 19, 2019.
A Matter of Survival: Trivializing Trans Issues as “Boutique,” Interview with Citations Needed Podcast, (November 2018).
Right Wing Fantasies about Gender are Killing Trans People, TruthOut, (October 22, 2018).
How Politicians Are Using Faux Progressive Arguments to Lock Up Young People, In These Times, April 30, 2018.
Building Safety Through Solidarity: An Interview with Craig Willse and Dean Spade, Deadly Exchange (November 2017).
Op-Ed: The Right is Using Trans Issues to Promote Militarism, Truthout (2017).
Reframing Faculty Criticisms of Student Activism, The Chronicle of Higher Education (2017).
Interview with Dean Spade, Natalie Oswin, Society and Space, (2014).
Marriage Will Never Set Us Free, co-authored with Craig Willse, Organizing Upgrade (2013).
A (Brief) Guide to Queer Youth Organizing, Avoiding Burn-Out, and Surviving, Interview by Suey Park, Youngist, (2013).
Review of Colin Dayan’s The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, Journal of Legal Education (2013).
Sexual Freedom, Legal Equality, and Settler Colonialism, Balkinization Blog (2013).
Dean Spade on Critical Trans Politics, Robert Nichols, Upping the Anti Number 14 (2012).
It’s So Queer to Give Away Money, Tikkun Magazine (2010).
Transpolitik är inte anti-diskriminering (Trans Politics Beyond Anti-Discrimination), Arena Magazine (Sweden) (2009).
White Knight, Left Turn Magazine (2009) (co-authored with Craig Willse).
Transformations, 31 Los Angeles Lawyer 34 (2008). (To read this article in Mandarin, click here: 跨性改造結構：三個不利跨性身分的迷思.)
Can You Hear Me Now?, with Colby Lenz, Enough (2007).
Dress to Kill, Fight to Win, LTTR 1. (2002).
Don’t Call Me, Makezine (2001)
Street Smart Column, Images: A Journal of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Vol. 1 (2000).
SexPanic!–Make the Connections, 5 Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 3 (1998) (co-authored with Eva Pendleton).
Edited Journals
The Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (2010). Transgender articles cluster co-edited with the SJSJ. Read the introduction here, an interview I introduced and conducted about trans people and Medicaid policy here, and an article by my colleagues at SRLP that I highly recommend here.
“The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy.” Co-Edited with Paisley Currah. 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. The table of contents and some articles are here.
Dossier of essays marking the 30th Anniversary of the film Born in Flames, co-edited with Craig Willse, in Women and Performance (2013).
Policy Papers
Outing Age: A Working Paper on Policy Issues Facing GLBT Old People, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute (2000).