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'''Dean Spade''' (born 1977) is an American lawyer, writer, trans activist, and associate professor of law at [[Seattle University School of Law]]. |
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==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.<ref name = Enough>{{cite web | url=http://www.enoughenough.org/about/ | title= Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism: Who We Are|website = Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism}}</ref> 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.<ref name="professional">{{cite journal | url=http://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/33_HVJLG_71_4-6-10_1423.pdf | author = Dean Spade | title=BE PROFESSIONAL! | date=Winter 2010 | journal = Harvard Journal of Law & Gender}}</ref> At the age of 14, his mother died of lung cancer. Following her death, he lived with two sets of foster parents.<ref name="UCLAToday">{{cite journal | url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/070522_transgender-policy | title=Transgender lawyer's appeal for justice | author=Cynthia Lee | date=May 22, 2007 | journal=UCLA Today | access-date=August 8, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917182915/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/070522_transgender-policy | archive-date=September 17, 2016 | url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Spade graduated [[summa cum laude]] from [[Barnard College]] of [[Columbia University]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[political science]] and [[women's studies]],<ref name="UCLAToday" /> and then graduated from the [[UCLA School of Law]] in 2001. He has written about seeking a [[mastectomy]] for [[gender-affirming surgery]] in 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 a [[non-binary gender]] expression.<ref name="ResistingMedicine">{{cite journal | url = http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1190&context=bglj | title= Resisting Medicine, Re/modeling Gender | author = Dean Spade | date=September 2013 | journal = Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
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⚫ | In 2002, he founded the [[Sylvia Rivera Law Project]], a non-profit law collective in New York City that provides free legal services to [[transgender]], [[intersex]] and [[Gender variance|gender non-conforming]] people who are low-income and/or people of color.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://srlp.org/|title=SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)|website=SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-11}}</ref> Spade was a staff attorney at SRLP from 2002 to 2006, during which time he presented testimony to the [[National Prison Rape Elimination Commission]]<ref name="PREC">http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_pr_prison_release_081905 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718090540/http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_pr_prison_release_081905 |date=2011-07-18 }}, accessed 7-2-10</ref> and helped achieve a major victory for transgender youth in foster care in the ''Jean Doe v. Bell'' case.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://srlp.org/jean-doe-vs-bell/|title=Landmark Foster Care Case: Jean Doe vs. Bell|date=2012-09-26|work=SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)|access-date=2017-10-11|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012202001/https://srlp.org/jean-doe-vs-bell/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Spade was also involved with the campaign in 2009 to stop Seattle from building a new jail.<ref name="spec">Holt, Emily (2/6/09). [http://www.su-spectator.com/2.2664/activists-oppose-new-seattle-jail-proposal-1.242284 "Activists oppose new Seattle jail proposal"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004231547/http://www.su-spectator.com/2.2664/activists-oppose-new-seattle-jail-proposal-1.242284 |date=2009-10-04}}. ''The Spectator''.</ref><ref name="seattle">http://srlp.org/seattle {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620064742/http://srlp.org/seattle |date=2009-06-20}}, accessed 7-2-10</ref> |
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''[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]'' named Spade one of their "Forty Under 40" in May 2010.<ref name="advocate">[http://www.advocate.com/printArticle.aspx?id=108868 "Forty Under 40."] 'The Advocate' May 2010.</ref> ''[[Utne Reader]]'' named Spade and [[Tyrone Boucher]] on their list of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in 2009,<ref name="utne">[http://www.utne.com/Politics/Tyrone-Boucher-Dean-Spade-Cocreators-Enough.aspx "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World: Tyrone Boucher and Dean Spade: Cocreators, Enough."] 'Utne Reader' November–December 2009.</ref> for their collaborative project ''Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism''.<ref name="enough">[http://www.enoughenough.org/about/ Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism] accessed 6-17-10</ref> |
''[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]'' named Spade one of their "Forty Under 40" in May 2010.<ref name="advocate">[http://www.advocate.com/printArticle.aspx?id=108868 "Forty Under 40."] 'The Advocate' May 2010.</ref> ''[[Utne Reader]]'' named Spade and [[Tyrone Boucher]] on their list of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in 2009,<ref name="utne">[http://www.utne.com/Politics/Tyrone-Boucher-Dean-Spade-Cocreators-Enough.aspx "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World: Tyrone Boucher and Dean Spade: Cocreators, Enough."] 'Utne Reader' November–December 2009.</ref> for their collaborative project ''Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism''.<ref name="enough">[http://www.enoughenough.org/about/ Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism] accessed 6-17-10</ref> |
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Spade was the 2009-2010 Haywood Burns Chair at [[CUNY |
Spade was the 2009-2010 Haywood Burns Chair at [[CUNY School of Law]], the Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow at [[UCLA Law School]] and [[Harvard Law School]], and was selected to give the 2009-2010 James A. Thomas Lecture at [[Yale Law School]]. He received a [[Jesse Dukeminier]] Award<ref name="cuny">{{Cite web |url=http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty-staff/spade.html |title=Dean Spade - CUNY School of Law |access-date=2010-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609191406/http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty-staff/spade.html |archive-date=2010-06-09 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/dukeminier-awards-past-volumes/|title=Past Volumes - Dukeminier Awards Journal - Williams Institute|work=Williams Institute|access-date=2017-10-12|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012201703/https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/dukeminier-awards-past-volumes/|url-status=dead}}</ref> for the article "Documenting Gender".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dean|first=Spade|date=2008|title=Documenting Gender|url=http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty/349/|journal=Hastings L.J.|language=en|volume=59}}</ref> 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 the [[class privilege]] of being a professor.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Spade|first=Dean|date=Winter 2010|title=Be Professional|url=http://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/33_HVJLG_71_4-6-10_1423.pdf|journal=Harvard Journal of Law and Gender}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Spade|first=Dean|date=Winter 2011|title=Some Very Basic Tips for Making Higher Education More Accessible to Trans Students and Rethinking How We Talk about Gendered Bodies.|journal=Radical Teacher|volume=92|pages=57–62|via=EBSCOHost}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enoughenough.org/2009/04/the-dirty-details-of-my-new-salary/|title=the dirty details of my new salary {{!}} Enough|website=www.enoughenough.org|date=26 April 2009 |language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-11}}</ref> He has also written about the limitations of the law's ability to address issues of inequity and injustice.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Spade|first=Dean|date=Summer 2013|title=Intersectional Resistance and Law Reform.|journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society|volume=38|issue=4|pages=1031–1055|doi=10.1086/669574|s2cid=146177405}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Spade|first=Dean|date=2010|title=For Those Considering Law School|journal=Harvard Unbound|volume=6|via=EBSCOHost}}</ref> His research interests have included the impact of the [[War on Terror]] on [[transgender rights]], the bureaucratization of trans identities, models of non-profit governance in social movements, and the limits of enhanced [[hate crime]] penalties.<ref name="ofm">[http://outfm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130:dean-spade-on-prison-abolition-and-anti-transgender-violence-and-fierce-radicalizes-the-creating-change-conference&catid=34:feedburner "Dean Spade on Prison Abolition and Anti-Transgender Violence"], [[Out FM]] on [[WBAI]], 1/30/12 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208043036/http://outfm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130:dean-spade-on-prison-abolition-and-anti-transgender-violence-and-fierce-radicalizes-the-creating-change-conference&catid=34:feedburner |date=2012-02-08}} accessed 2-20-12</ref> His first book, ''Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law'', was released in January 2012 from [[South End Press]] and nominated for a 2011 [[Lambda Literary Award]] in the category of Transgender Nonfiction.<ref name="book"> |
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Spade, Dean (2011). Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law. [[South End Press]]: New York. |
Spade, Dean (2011). Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law. [[South End Press]]: New York. |
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Spade has collaborated extensively in the past, including editing two special issues of ''[[Sexuality Research and Social Policy]]'' with [[Paisley Currah]]<ref name="paisley">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 [http://www.springerlink.com/content/g394548g3463/?p=130f9263c2af488a87cb5ff05c729f0e&pi=9]{{dead link|date=February 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and coauthoring a guide to Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men with Dr. Nick Gorton.<ref name="gorton">Gorton N, Buth J, and Spade D. [http://www.nickgorton.org Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men: A Guide For Health Care Providers] Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services. San Francisco, |
Spade has collaborated extensively in the past, including editing two special issues of ''[[Sexuality Research and Social Policy]]'' with [[Paisley Currah]]<ref name="paisley">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 [http://www.springerlink.com/content/g394548g3463/?p=130f9263c2af488a87cb5ff05c729f0e&pi=9]{{dead link|date=February 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and coauthoring a guide to Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men with Dr. Nick Gorton.<ref name="gorton">Gorton N, Buth J, and Spade D. [http://www.nickgorton.org Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men: A Guide For Health Care Providers] Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services. San Francisco, California. 2005. {{ISBN|0-9773250-0-8}}</ref> Spade has collaborated particularly frequently with sociologist Craig Willse. Their collaborative projects include ''I Still Think Marriage is the Wrong Goal'',<ref name="marriage">[http://makezine.enoughenough.org/prop8.html I Still Think Marriage is the Wrong Goal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091214235119/http://makezine.enoughenough.org/prop8.html |date=2009-12-14 }} accessed 6-17-10</ref> a manifesto and [[Facebook]] group<!-- ([http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=39392496765 GONE external link])-->. Willse and Spade were also the co-creators of MAKE, "propaganda for activist agitation", a paper zine (1999–2001) and website (2001–2007).<ref name="make">[http://makezine.enoughenough.org/ MAKE zine archives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527204013/http://makezine.enoughenough.org/ |date=2010-05-27}} accessed 6-17-10</ref> In the past, Spade has written other zines including ''Piss and Vinegar'' (2002), telling the story of his transphobic arrest during the 2002 [[World Economic Forum]] protests in New York City. [[Mimi Nguyen]] interviewed Spade and Willse about the experience in ''[[Maximumrocknroll]]''.<ref name="mrr">[http://makezine.enoughenough.org/mimi4.html Interview in Maximumrocknroll] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807021224/http://makezine.enoughenough.org/mimi4.html |date=2010-08-07}} accessed 6-17-10</ref> |
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==Political affiliations== |
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⚫ | Spade is Jewish,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.deanspade.net/2016/01/15/creating-change-pinkwashing-ice-pinkwashing-israel/ |title=Creating Change: Pinkwashing ICE, Pinkwashing Israel |author = Dean Spade | date= January 15, 2016 | access-date = April 2, 2016 |quote=As a Jewish trans activist...}}</ref> and has worked closely with the Seattle chapter of [[Queers Against Israeli Apartheid]] (QuAIA).<ref name=SocietySpace>{{cite web| url = https://societyandspace.com/material/interviews/interview-with-dean-spade/| title = Interview with Dean Spade| editor = Natalie Oswin| access-date = 2016-08-08| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160611062118/https://societyandspace.com/material/interviews/interview-with-dean-spade/| archive-date = 2016-06-11| url-status = dead}}</ref> |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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*{{cite book|title=Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law|year=2011|publisher=South End Press|location=New York|isbn=9780896087965|oclc=601132754}} Second expanded edition published by Duke University Press (2015).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Spade |first1=Dean |title=Normal Life. Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law |url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/normal-life-revised |website=Duke University Press}}</ref> Translated to Spanish by Bellaterra Edicions.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Spade |first1=Dean |title=Una "vida normal". Violencia administrativa. Políticas trans críticas y los límites del derecho |url=https://www.bellaterra.coop/es/libros/una-vida-normal |website=Bellaterra Ediciones}}</ref> |
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*{{cite book|title=Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next) |year=2020|publisher=Verso Books|location=New York|isbn=9781839762123}} Translated to Spanish,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Spade |first1=Dean |title=Apoyo mutuo. Construir solidaridad en sociedades en crisis |url=https://traficantes.net/libros/apoyo-mutuo |website=Traficantes de Sueños|date=23 April 2024 }}</ref> Italian,<ref>{{cite web |title=Mutuo appoggio – Dean Spade |url=https://edizionimalamente.it/catalogo/mutuo-appoggio/ |website=Edizioni Malamente}}</ref> Portuguese,<ref>{{cite web |title=Apoio Mútuo: construindo solidariedade durante essa crise (e a próxima) – Dean Spade |url=https://criacaohumana.com.br/produto/apoio-mutuo-construindo-solidariedade-durante-essa-crise-e-a-proxima-dean-spade/ |website=Criação Humana}}</ref> Catalan,<ref>{{cite web |title=Suport mutu. Construir la solidaritat en temps de crisi |url=https://llegirencatala.cat/llibres/suport-mutu/ |website=Llegir en Català}}</ref> and Czech.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vzájemná pomoc: Jak v krizi upevňovat solidaritu |url=https://www.databazeknih.cz/knihy/vzajemna-pomoc-jak-v-krizi-upevnovat-solidaritu-496344 |website=Databazeknih.cz}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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* {{cite book|title=Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law|year=2011|publisher=South End Press|location=New York|isbn=9780896087965|oclc=601132754}} |
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* {{cite book|title=Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next) |year=2020|publisher=Verso Books|location=New York}} |
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===Anthologies=== |
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* "Out of time: from gay liberation to prison abolition: Building an abolitionist trans & queer movement with everything we've got" (with Morgan Bassichis & Alexander Lee), in ''Captive Genders : Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex'', eds Nat Smith & Eric A. Stanley (Oakland, CA : AK Press, 2011.){{cite book|title=Captive Genders|last=Spade|first=Dean|publisher=AK Press|year=2011|isbn=9781849350709|oclc=669754832}} |
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* "Fighting to win", in ''That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation'', ed. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Brooklyn : Soft Skull Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2008.){{cite book|title=That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation|last=Spade|first=Dean|publisher=Soft Skull Press|year=2008|isbn=9781593761950|oclc=182552895|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thatsrevoltingqu0000unse}} |
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* "Compliance is gendered: struggling for gender self-determination in a hostile economy", in ''Transgender Rights'', ed. [[Paisley Currah]] (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.){{cite book|title=Transgender Rights|last=Spade|first=Dean|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|year=2006|isbn=0-816-64311-3|oclc=68221085}} |
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* "Undermining gender regulation", in ''Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity'', ed. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006.){{cite book|title=Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity|last=Spade|first=Dean|publisher=Seal Press|year=2006|isbn=9781580051842|oclc=71285289}} |
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*Afterword in ''Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation'' by Eli Clare (1999) |
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==Personal life== |
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⚫ | Spade grew up in rural Virginia, the child of a single mother who was sometimes on welfare.<ref name = Enough>{{cite web | url=http://www.enoughenough.org/about/ | title= Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism: Who We Are|website = Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism}}</ref> 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.<ref name="professional">{{cite journal | url=http://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/33_HVJLG_71_4-6-10_1423.pdf | author = Dean Spade | title=BE PROFESSIONAL! | date=Winter 2010 | journal = Harvard Journal of Law & Gender}}</ref> At the age of 14 his mother died of lung cancer. Following her death he lived with two sets of foster parents.<ref name="UCLAToday">{{cite journal | url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/070522_transgender-policy | title=Transgender lawyer's appeal for justice | author=Cynthia Lee | date=May 22, 2007 | journal=UCLA Today | access-date=August 8, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917182915/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/070522_transgender-policy | archive-date=September 17, 2016 | url-status=dead |
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⚫ | Spade graduated [[summa cum laude]] from [[Barnard College]] of [[Columbia University]] with a [[ |
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*[https://law.seattleu.edu/faculty/profiles/dean-spade Dean Spade: Seattle University School of Law] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901072852/https://law.seattleu.edu/faculty/profiles/dean-spade |date=2019-09-01}} |
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100609185826/http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty-staff/HBChair/spade.html Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights - CUNY School of Law] |
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Latest revision as of 22:06, 24 September 2024
Dean Spade | |
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Born | 1977 (age 46–47) |
Education | Columbia University (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (JD) |
Occupation(s) | Lawyer, activist, author |
Employer | Seattle University School of Law |
Known for | Transgender activism |
Website | Official website |
Dean Spade (born 1977) is an American lawyer, writer, trans activist, and associate professor of law at Seattle University School of Law.
Early life and education
[edit]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 graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and women's studies,[3] and then graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 2001. He has written about seeking a mastectomy for gender-affirming surgery in 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 a non-binary gender expression.[4]
Career
[edit]In 2002, he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective in New York City that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people 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 the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission[6] and helped achieve a major victory for transgender youth in foster care in the Jean Doe v. Bell case.[7] Spade was also involved with the campaign in 2009 to stop Seattle from building a new jail.[8][9]
The Advocate named Spade one of their "Forty Under 40" in May 2010.[10] Utne Reader named Spade and Tyrone Boucher on their list of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in 2009,[11] for their collaborative project Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism.[12]
Spade was the 2009-2010 Haywood Burns Chair at CUNY School of Law, the Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow at UCLA Law School and Harvard Law School, and was selected to give the 2009-2010 James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School. He received a Jesse Dukeminier Award[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 the class privilege of 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 the War on Terror on transgender rights, the bureaucratization of trans identities, models of non-profit governance in social movements, and the limits of enhanced hate crime penalties.[21] His first book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, was released in January 2012 from South End Press and nominated for a 2011 Lambda Literary Award in the category of Transgender Nonfiction.[22][23]
Spade has collaborated extensively in the past, including editing two special issues of Sexuality Research and Social Policy with Paisley 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 include I Still Think Marriage is the Wrong Goal,[26] a manifesto and Facebook group. 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 including Piss and Vinegar (2002), telling the story of his transphobic arrest during the 2002 World Economic Forum protests in New York City. Mimi Nguyen interviewed Spade and Willse about the experience in Maximumrocknroll.[28]
Political affiliations
[edit]Spade is Jewish,[29] and has worked closely with the Seattle chapter of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA).[30]
Works
[edit]- Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law. New York: South End Press. 2011. ISBN 9780896087965. OCLC 601132754. 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. ISBN 9781839762123. Translated to Spanish,[33] Italian,[34] Portuguese,[35] Catalan,[36] and Czech.[37]
References
[edit]- ^ "Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism: Who We Are". Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism.
- ^ Dean Spade (Winter 2010). "BE PROFESSIONAL!" (PDF). Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.
- ^ a b Cynthia Lee (May 22, 2007). "Transgender lawyer's appeal for justice". UCLA Today. Archived from the original on September 17, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ^ Dean Spade (September 2013). "Resisting Medicine, Re/modeling Gender". Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice.
- ^ "SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)". SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project). Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_pr_prison_release_081905 Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 7-2-10
- ^ "Landmark Foster Care Case: Jean Doe vs. Bell". SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project). 2012-09-26. Archived from the original on 2017-10-12. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ Holt, Emily (2/6/09). "Activists oppose new Seattle jail proposal" Archived 2009-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. The Spectator.
- ^ http://srlp.org/seattle Archived 2009-06-20 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 7-2-10
- ^ "Forty Under 40." 'The Advocate' May 2010.
- ^ "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World: Tyrone Boucher and Dean Spade: Cocreators, Enough." 'Utne Reader' November–December 2009.
- ^ Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism accessed 6-17-10
- ^ "Dean Spade - CUNY School of Law". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
- ^ "Past Volumes - Dukeminier Awards Journal - Williams Institute". Williams Institute. Archived from the original on 2017-10-12. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
- ^ Dean, Spade (2008). "Documenting Gender". Hastings L.J. 59.
- ^ Spade, Dean (Winter 2010). "Be Professional" (PDF). Harvard Journal of Law and Gender.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "the dirty details of my new salary | Enough". www.enoughenough.org. 26 April 2009. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ 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. S2CID 146177405.
- ^ Spade, Dean (2010). "For Those Considering Law School". Harvard Unbound. 6 – via EBSCOHost.
- ^ "Dean Spade on Prison Abolition and Anti-Transgender Violence", Out FM on WBAI, 1/30/12 Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine accessed 2-20-12
- ^ Spade, Dean (2011). Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law. South End Press: New York. ISBN 978-0-89608-796-5 [1] Archived 2010-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced." 'Entertainment Weekly' March 2012 accessed 3-25-12
- ^ 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]
- ^ Gorton N, Buth J, and Spade D. Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men: A Guide For Health Care Providers Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services. San Francisco, California. 2005. ISBN 0-9773250-0-8
- ^ I Still Think Marriage is the Wrong Goal Archived 2009-12-14 at the Wayback Machine accessed 6-17-10
- ^ MAKE zine archives Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine accessed 6-17-10
- ^ Interview in Maximumrocknroll Archived 2010-08-07 at the Wayback Machine accessed 6-17-10
- ^ Dean Spade (January 15, 2016). "Creating Change: Pinkwashing ICE, Pinkwashing Israel". Retrieved April 2, 2016.
As a Jewish trans activist...
- ^ Natalie Oswin (ed.). "Interview with Dean Spade". Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
- ^ Spade, Dean. "Normal Life. Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law". Duke University Press.
- ^ Spade, Dean. "Una "vida normal". Violencia administrativa. Políticas trans críticas y los límites del derecho". Bellaterra Ediciones.
- ^ Spade, Dean (23 April 2024). Apoyo mutuo. Construir solidaridad en sociedades en crisis.
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- ^ "Apoio Mútuo: construindo solidariedade durante essa crise (e a próxima) – Dean Spade". Criação Humana.
- ^ "Suport mutu. Construir la solidaritat en temps de crisi". Llegir en Català.
- ^ "Vzájemná pomoc: Jak v krizi upevňovat solidaritu". Databazeknih.cz.
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