Dean Spade

Dean Spade is a lawyer, civil rights activist, writer, and Assistant Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. 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. Spade was a staff attorney at SRLP from 2002 to 2006, during which time he presented testimony to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission^[1] and helped achieve a major victory for transgender youth in foster care in the Jean Doe v. Bell case.^[2] More recently, Spade was involved with the campaign to stop Seattle from building a new jail.^[3][4]

The Advocate named Spade one of their "Forty Under 40" in May 2010.^[5] Utne Reader named Spade and Tyrone Boucher on their list of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in 2009,^[6] for their collaborative project Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism.^[7]

Spade was the 2009-2010 Haywood Burns Chair at CUNY Law School, 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^[8] for the article "Documenting Gender".^[9] Spade's current research interests include the impact of the War on Terror on transgender rights, the bureaucratization of trans identities, and models of non-profit governance in social movements. His first book, Critical Trans Politics, is forthcoming from South End Press.^[10]

Spade has collaborated extensively in the past, including editing two special issues of Sexuality Research and Social Policy with Paisley Currah ^[11] and coauthoring a guide to Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men with Dr. Nick Gorton.^[12] Spade has collaborated particularly frequently with sociologist Craig Willse. Their collaborative projects include I Still Think Marriage is the Wrong Goal,^[13] a manifesto and extremely popular Facebook group (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).^[14] 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.^[15]

References

1. ^ http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_pr_prison_release_081905, accessed 7-2-10
2. ^ http://srlp.org/doevbell, accessed 7-2-10
3. ^ Holt, Emily (2/6/09). "Activists oppose new Seattle jail proposal". The Spectator.
4. ^ http://srlp.org/seattle, accessed 7-2-10
5. ^ "Forty Under 40." 'The Advocate' May 2010.
6. ^ "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World: Tyrone Boucher and Dean Spade: Cocreators, Enough." 'Utne Reader' November–December 2009.
7. ^ Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism accessed 6-17-10
8. ^ http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty-staff/spade.html
9. ^ Spade, Dean, Documenting Gender (August, 04 2008). Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008. http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/publications/Documenting%20Gender%20-%20Spade.pdf
10. ^ Spade, Dean (2011). Critical Trans Politics: Trans Politics and Law Reform in a Neoliberal Landscape. South End Press: New York. ISBN 978-0-89608-796-5 [1]
11. ^ 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
12. ^ 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, CA. 2005. ISBN 0-9773250-0-8
13. ^ I Still Think Marriage is the Wrong Goal accessed 6-17-10
14. ^ MAKE zine archives accessed 6-17-10
15. ^ Interview in Maximumrocknroll accessed 6-17-10

External links

• Dean Spade: Seattle University School of Law
• Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights - CUNY School of Law
• Yale Law School - James A. Thomas Lecture - Dean Spade - VIDEO

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