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Dean Spade
Spade in 2015
Born1977 (age 46–47)
EducationColumbia University(BA)
University of California, Los Angeles(JD)
Occupation(s)Lawyer, activist, author
EmployerSeattle University School of Law
Known forTransgender activism
WebsiteOfficial website

Dean Spade(born 1977) is an American lawyer, writer, trans activist, and associate professor of law atSeattle University School of Law.

Early life and education

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Spade grew up in rural Virginia, the child of a single mother who was sometimes on welfare.[1]At the age of 9, he joined his mother and sister in cleaning houses and offices to make money. Two years later, he started cleaning by himself and moved on to painting summer rentals for additional income.[2]At the age of 14, his mother died of lung cancer. Following her death, he lived with two sets of foster parents.[3]

Spade graduatedsumma cum laudefromBarnard CollegeofColumbia Universitywith aBachelor of Artsdegree inpolitical scienceandwomen's studies,[3]and then graduated from theUCLA School of Lawin 2001. He has written about seeking amastectomyforgender-affirming surgeryin Los Angeles during this time period, and how the reliance on a mental-health/disability model to gain access to such surgery did not fit a person with anon-binary genderexpression.[4]

Career

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In 2002, he founded theSylvia Rivera Law Project,a non-profit law collective in New York City that provides free legal services totransgender,intersexandgender non-conformingpeople who are low-income and/or people of color.[5]Spade was a staff attorney at SRLP from 2002 to 2006, during which time he presented testimony to theNational Prison Rape Elimination Commission[6]and helped achieve a major victory for transgender youth in foster care in theJean Doe v. Bellcase.[7]Spade was also involved with the campaign in 2009 to stop Seattle from building a new jail.[8][9]

The Advocatenamed Spade one of their "Forty Under 40" in May 2010.[10]Utne Readernamed Spade andTyrone Boucheron their list of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in 2009,[11]for their collaborative projectEnough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism.[12]

Spade was the 2009-2010 Haywood Burns Chair atCUNY School of Law,the Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow atUCLA Law SchoolandHarvard Law School,and was selected to give the 2009-2010 James A. Thomas Lecture atYale Law School.He received aJesse DukeminierAward[13][14]for the article "Documenting Gender".[15]Spade has written extensively about his personal experience as a trans law professor and student. This includes writings on transphobia in higher education as well as theclass privilegeof being a professor.[16][17][18]He has also written about the limitations of the law's ability to address issues of inequity and injustice.[19][20]His research interests have included the impact of theWar on Terrorontransgender rights,the bureaucratization of trans identities, models of non-profit governance in social movements, and the limits of enhancedhate crimepenalties.[21]His first book,Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law,was released in January 2012 fromSouth End Pressand nominated for a 2011Lambda Literary Awardin the category of Transgender Nonfiction.[22][23]

Spade has collaborated extensively in the past, including editing two special issues ofSexuality Research and Social PolicywithPaisley Currah[24]and coauthoring a guide to Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men with Dr. Nick Gorton.[25]Spade has collaborated particularly frequently with sociologist Craig Willse. Their collaborative projects includeI Still Think Marriage is the Wrong Goal,[26]a manifesto andFacebookgroup. Willse and Spade were also the co-creators of MAKE, "propaganda for activist agitation", a paper zine (1999–2001) and website (2001–2007).[27]In the past, Spade has written other zines includingPiss and Vinegar(2002), telling the story of his transphobic arrest during the 2002World Economic Forumprotests in New York City.Mimi Nguyeninterviewed Spade and Willse about the experience inMaximumrocknroll.[28]

Political affiliations

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Spade is Jewish,[29]and has worked closely with the Seattle chapter ofQueers Against Israeli Apartheid(QuAIA).[30]

Works

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  • Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law.New York: South End Press. 2011.ISBN9780896087965.OCLC601132754.Second expanded edition published by Duke University Press (2015).[31]Translated to Spanish by Bellaterra Edicions.[32]
  • Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next).New York: Verso Books. 2020.ISBN9781839762123.Translated to Spanish,[33]Italian,[34]Portuguese,[35]Catalan,[36]and Czech.[37]

References

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  1. ^"Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism: Who We Are".Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism.
  2. ^Dean Spade (Winter 2010)."BE PROFESSIONAL!"(PDF).Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.
  3. ^abCynthia Lee (May 22, 2007)."Transgender lawyer's appeal for justice".UCLA Today.Archived fromthe originalon September 17, 2016.RetrievedAugust 8,2016.
  4. ^Dean Spade (September 2013)."Resisting Medicine, Re/modeling Gender".Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice.
  5. ^"SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)".SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project).Retrieved2017-10-11.
  6. ^http:// nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_pr_prison_release_081905Archived2011-07-18 at theWayback Machine,accessed 7-2-10
  7. ^"Landmark Foster Care Case: Jean Doe vs. Bell".SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project).2012-09-26. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-10-12.Retrieved2017-10-11.
  8. ^Holt, Emily (2/6/09)."Activists oppose new Seattle jail proposal"Archived2009-10-04 at theWayback Machine.The Spectator.
  9. ^http://srlp.org/seattleArchived2009-06-20 at theWayback Machine,accessed 7-2-10
  10. ^"Forty Under 40."'The Advocate' May 2010.
  11. ^"50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World: Tyrone Boucher and Dean Spade: Cocreators, Enough."'Utne Reader' November–December 2009.
  12. ^Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalismaccessed 6-17-10
  13. ^"Dean Spade - CUNY School of Law".Archived fromthe originalon 2010-06-09.Retrieved2010-07-03.
  14. ^"Past Volumes - Dukeminier Awards Journal - Williams Institute".Williams Institute.Archived fromthe originalon 2017-10-12.Retrieved2017-10-12.
  15. ^Dean, Spade (2008)."Documenting Gender".Hastings L.J.59.
  16. ^Spade, Dean (Winter 2010)."Be Professional"(PDF).Harvard Journal of Law and Gender.
  17. ^Spade, Dean (Winter 2011). "Some Very Basic Tips for Making Higher Education More Accessible to Trans Students and Rethinking How We Talk about Gendered Bodies".Radical Teacher.92:57–62 – via EBSCOHost.
  18. ^"the dirty details of my new salary | Enough".enoughenough.org.26 April 2009.Retrieved2017-10-11.
  19. ^Spade, Dean (Summer 2013). "Intersectional Resistance and Law Reform".Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.38(4): 1031–1055.doi:10.1086/669574.S2CID146177405.
  20. ^Spade, Dean (2010). "For Those Considering Law School".Harvard Unbound.6– via EBSCOHost.
  21. ^"Dean Spade on Prison Abolition and Anti-Transgender Violence",Out FMonWBAI,1/30/12Archived2012-02-08 at theWayback Machineaccessed 2-20-12
  22. ^ Spade, Dean (2011). Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law.South End Press:New York. ISBN978-0-89608-796-5[1]Archived2010-05-16 at theWayback Machine
  23. ^"24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced."'Entertainment Weekly' March 2012 accessed 3-25-12
  24. ^Currah, Paisley and Dean Spade, guest co-editors. (2007). "The State We're In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part I." Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of National Sexuality Resource Center IV (iv). Articles in PDF available online at[2][dead link]
  25. ^Gorton N, Buth J, and Spade D.Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men: A Guide For Health Care ProvidersLyon-Martin Women's Health Services. San Francisco, California. 2005.ISBN0-9773250-0-8
  26. ^I Still Think Marriage is the Wrong GoalArchived2009-12-14 at theWayback Machineaccessed 6-17-10
  27. ^MAKE zine archivesArchived2010-05-27 at theWayback Machineaccessed 6-17-10
  28. ^Interview in MaximumrocknrollArchived2010-08-07 at theWayback Machineaccessed 6-17-10
  29. ^Dean Spade (January 15, 2016)."Creating Change: Pinkwashing ICE, Pinkwashing Israel".RetrievedApril 2,2016.As a Jewish trans activist...
  30. ^Natalie Oswin (ed.)."Interview with Dean Spade".Archived fromthe originalon 2016-06-11.Retrieved2016-08-08.
  31. ^Spade, Dean."Normal Life. Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law".Duke University Press.
  32. ^Spade, Dean."Una" vida normal ". Violencia administrativa. Políticas trans críticas y los límites del derecho".Bellaterra Ediciones.
  33. ^Spade, Dean (23 April 2024).Apoyo mutuo. Construir solidaridad en sociedades en crisis.{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help)
  34. ^"Mutuo appoggio – Dean Spade".Edizioni Malamente.
  35. ^"Apoio Mútuo: construindo solidariedade durante essa crise (e a próxima) – Dean Spade".Criação Humana.
  36. ^"Suport mutu. Construir la solidaritat en temps de crisi".Llegir en Català.
  37. ^"Vzájemná pomoc: Jak v krizi upevňovat solidaritu".Databazeknih.cz.
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