New Videos and a New Syllabus

I am teaching a January Term class at Seattle U for the first time, starting in a few weeks.  It will be a four day intensive about imprisonment.  I just posted the syllabus in case it is of interest.

I also wanted to share some new videos.  GritTV recently posted an interview that Laura Flanders did with me.

http://blip.tv/grittv/dean-spade-the-most-imprisoning-nation-in-the-world-part-1-of-2-6482091

Also, I recently attended the World Social Forum: Free Palestine! in Porto Alegre, Brazil. I was part of a Queer Visions contingent that put on two public panels, this one and this one. Here’s the talk I gave about marriage and the military and pinkwashing:

 

 

 

Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics, with Craig Willse

I co-authored with Craig Willse “Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics” publisehd in Widener Law Review in 2005. You can read it here.

Abstract

This paper attempts to trace the links between the Lawrence v. Texas decision and campaigns for gay marriage rights in order to envision movements that seek justice for more than just the most racially and economically privileged lesbians and gay men. The authors outline the limits of the agenda represented by Lawrence and propose alternative modes for resisting the coercive regulation of sexuality, gender, and family formations.