Currently on the faculty of Seattle University, Dean Spade has
taught at Columbia and Harvard Law Schools and was a Williams
Institute Law Teaching Fellow at UCLA Law School. He focuses on
classes related to sexual orientation and gender identity law and
law and social movements.
In 2002, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit
law collective that provides free legal services to transgender,
intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or
people of color. SRLP also engages in litigation, policy reform and
public education on issues affecting these communities and operates
on a collective governance model, prioritizing the governance and
leadership of trans, intersex, and gender variant people of color.
From 1998-2006, Dean co-edited the paper and online zine "Make."
Dean is currently the co-editor of the online journal "Enough, "
which focuses on the personal politics of wealth
redistribution.
Spade was awarded the prestigious Dukeminier Award for his 2008
article "Documenting Gender" and the 2009-2010 Haywood Burns Chair
at CUNY Law School, and was selected to give the 2009-2010 James A.
Thomas Lecture at Yale.
""Normal Life" should be read, not only by legal scholars and trans
activists, but by everyone who is interested in challenging
capitalism, colonialism, racism and patriarchy in the 21st
century." --Angela Y. Davis, author, activist, and Professor
Emerita, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
"An invaluable resource not just for rethinking gender justice, but
for rethinking how we do social justice organizing in general."
--Andrea Smith, author of "Conquest: Sexual Violence and American
Indian Genocide"
"Sharply political, deeply intellectual, broadly accessible,
"Normal Life" is exactly what we need right now." --Lisa Duggan,
author of "The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural
Politics, and the Attack on Democracy"
"This street-smart and theoretically sophisticated little book
should be required reading for all would-be radicals looking for
practical ways to build a better future." --Susan Stryker,
Associate Professor, Gender Studies, Indiana
University-Bloomington
"Original, visionary, urgent, and brilliantly argued." --Urvashi
Vaid, author of "Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and
Lesbian Liberation"
"Normal Life" should be read, not only by legal scholars and trans
activists, but by everyone who is interested in challenging
capitalism, colonialism, racism and patriarchy in the 21st century.
--Angela Y. Davis, author, activist, and Professor Emerita, History
of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
"An invaluable resource not just for rethinking gender justice, but
for rethinking how we do social justice organizing in general."
--Andrea Smith, author of "Conquest: Sexual Violence and American
Indian Genocide"
"Sharply political, deeply intellectual, broadly accessible,
"Normal Life" is exactly what we need right now." --Lisa Duggan,
author of "The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural
Politics, and the Attack on Democracy"
"This street-smart and theoretically sophisticated little book
should be required reading for all would-be radicals looking for
practical ways to build a better future." --Susan Stryker,
Associate Professor, Gender Studies, Indiana University
"An invaluable resource not just for rethinking gender justice, but
for rethinking how we do social justice organizing in general."
—Andrea Smith, author of "Conquest: Sexual Violence and
American Indian Genocide"
"Sharply political, deeply intellectual, broadly accessible,
"Normal Life" is exactly what we need right now." —Lisa
Duggan, author of "The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism,
Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy"
"This street-smart and theoretically sophisticated little book
should be required reading for all would-be radicals looking for
practical ways to build a better future." —Susan Stryker,
Associate Professor, Gender Studies, Indiana
University-Bloomington
"Original, visionary, urgent, and brilliantly argued."
—Urvashi Vaid, author of "Virtual Equality: The
Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation"
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