Meaghan Winter recently interviewed me for Guernica, have a look. In other news, I’m very excited that Nat Smith and Eric Stanley’s anthology, Captive Genders: Transembodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex is coming out in August. Finally, I’m happy to report that, working with the editors at South End Press, I’ve finally settled on a title for my forthcoming book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law.
Be Professional!
I wrote “Be Professional!, published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender in 2010 in response to Bob Chang and Adrienne Davis’ article, “Making Up Is Hard to Do: Race/Gender/Sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom,” 33 Harv. J. L. & Gender 1 (2010). You can read it here.
Abstract
In 2010, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender published a series of letters between Adrienne Davis and Bob Chang entitled, “Making Up Is Hard to Do: Race/Gender/Sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom,” along with three response pieces by Adele Morrison, Darren Rosenblum and Dean Spade. “Be Professional!” is written in letter form like “Making Up Is Hard to Do” and discusses Spade’s experience becoming and being a trans law professor, as well as broader questions about activism, academia, professionalism and the neo-liberal academy.
Beyond Gay Marriage Podcast
Lisa Dettmer just released her podcast and article critically examining same-sex marriage advocacy. The podcast includes interviews me and many other critics of same-sex marriage advocacy. Thanks to Lisa for the great work!
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Considering Law School?
I wrote up a little summary of some of the things I often tell people who come to me because they are considering law school and want to know if it is a good route to making transformative change. I hope this might be a helpful document for activists considering law school.
New Writing in the Seattle Journal for Social Justice
The Seattle Journal for Social Justice just published a new issue that includes a cluster of articles and art on trans issues. You can read the introduction I wrote for the cluster here.
Here is an interview with advocates working on Medicaid access for trans people in three states.
Here is an article by my colleagues at SRLP about the role of lawyers in trans resistance.
Read all articles in the issue here.
We’re having a symposium featuring several articles from the cluster at Seattle University School of Law on October 20 from lunchtime until evening open to the public and free. Please come!
Intersectionality by Design: Epistemologies, Disciplines, and Discourse
Keynote Address: Trans Law Reform Strategies, Co-Optation, and the Potential for Transformative Change
I wrote “Trans Law Reform Strategies, Co-Optation, and the Potential for Transformative Change” in Women’s Rights Law Reporter in 2009. You can read it here.
Exile and Pride: Afterword to the 2009 Edition
Here is the afterword I wrote to the 2009 edition of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare.
Keynote Address: Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape
I wrote “Keynote Address: Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape” in Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review in 2009. You can read it here.
Abstract
These edited Keynote remarks from the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review Symposium on transgender law address how questions of law reform strategy relate to critical understandings of neoliberalism. The paper addresses questions of administrative governance, identity documentation, the relationship between law and social movements, and questions of economic and racial justice as applied to transgender politics.