Normal Life
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade was first published in 2011 by South End Press. A second edition with new material was published in 2015 by Duke University Press.
Normal Life was published in Spanish by Bellaterra Press in 2016. (Read Chapter 2, “What’s Wrong with Rights?” in Mandarin here: 「權利」有什麼問題？)
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next)
Published October 2020, by Verso Press. Mutual Aid is forthcoming from various publishers in Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, German, Czech, Italian and Korean.
Check out the free Teaching Guide that goes with the book, and this free Study Guide created by Radical in Progress.
Read this draft of a Spanish translation now and look forward to the book coming out in Spanish, Italian, Czech, and Thai in the coming months. Here is a translation of the Leadership Qualities chart from the book in Spanish, and here is a translation of the chart about Qualities of Mutual Aid Projects in Spanish. These were made by @multiversidadlibertaria.
Watch the launch event video where I was in conversation with Whitney Hu, this conversation with Mariame Kaba and Ejeris Dixon, and this one with Mia Mingus.
Read this excerpt that was published by Truthout in October, this other excerpt published in Roar Magazine in November, this interview about the book with In These Times, and this interview with The Nation. Read this review by Rori Elliot, and this review by Paul Centorame.
Anthologies and Book Chapters
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).