Normal Life

Wait what s wrong with rights Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and equality strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and equal protection under the law This approach assumes that the state and its legal, policing, and social services apparatus even its policies and documents of belonging and non belonging are neutral and benevolent While we all have to comply with the gender binaries set forth by regulatory bodies of law and administration, many trans people, especially the most marginalized, are even at risk for poverty, violence, and premature death by virtue of those same neutral legal structures Normal Life Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law raises revelatory critiques of the current strategies pivoting solely on a legal rights framework, but also points to examples of an organized grassroots trans movement that is demanding the most essential of legal reforms in addition to making comprehensive interventions into dangerous systems of repression and the administrative violence that ultimately determines our life chances Setting forth a politic that goes beyond the quest for mere legal inclusion, Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.An attorney, educator, and trans activist, Dean Spade has taught classes on sexual orientation, gender identity, poverty and law at the City University of New York CUNY , Seattle University, Columbia University, and Harvard In 2002 he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a collective that provides free legal services and works to build trans resistance rooted in racial and economic justice. Read Normal Life By Dean Spade – kino-fada.fr i havent read it all but i started getting frustrated with dean spade, like i respect his work and ideas, but it jsut kinda reads to me like a white man re explaining what women of colour, especially trans women of colour, and trans sex workers have been saying for like a billion years, but now he is saying it and its all revolutionary And while he does credit these communities frequently i dunno i just cbf reading it allbut its probably a good introduction to these politics and exp...This book is an excellent summary of critical trans politics if you ignore the fact that Spade seems unable to utter the words trans woman throughout the book, leaving us to assume that all trans people face the same kinds and intensity of oppression W...this is required reading, just as the angela davis quote says on the cover of this edition being with dean on book tours and panels and such i have been exposed to dean s genius, this book gives you all the basics of critical trans studies, the book itself is an intervention, dean is awesome and brilliant i m excited for my associa...three stars for quality, four for value would be five, but my main quibble see below feels too significant to warrant inflating the rating that far very clear and articulate without getting too bogged down in academic contortionism though i say this speaking as someone fluent in academic, so others might disagree but there s no doubt that some of his earlier essays veer quite close to impenetrability there was a good deal of preaching to the choir in this reading experience because i three stars for quality, four for value would be five, but my main quibble see below feels too significant to warrant inflating the rating that far very clear and articulate without getting too bogged down in academic contortionism though i say this speaking as someone fluent in academic, so others might disagree but there s no doubt that some of his earlier essays veer quite close to impenetrability there was a good deal of preaching to the choir in this reading experience because i was already starting from a radical place, yet it still seemed like he does a fine job of getting to the heart of the important issues and walking the reader through why they re important, their impacts, etc., but this book does sometimes beg the question of what to do e.g yes, the prison industry is a terrible thing, and x reform would be great, but in the m...I read this book for a course on LGBT Politics and Activism my last year of college, and I regret not converting my rental to a purchase at the end of the semester It s a great introduction to administrative violence, particularly as it pertains to trans and queer people and or people of color The focus of the book is trans politics, but and this is one of the overarching points of the book trans politics and race politics, as well as the politics of gender, sexuality, age, ability, and I read this book for a course on LGBT Politics and Activism my last year of college, and I regret not converting my rental to a purchase at the end of the semester It s a great introduction to administrative violence, particularly as it pertains to trans and queer people and or people of color The focus of the book is trans politics, but and this is one of the overarching points of the book trans politics and race politics, as well as the politics of gender, sexuality, age, ability, and class, are all interconnected What these marginalized groups share is the plight of systemic, institutionalized oppression that is often disguised as a means of improving, while instead perpetuating and w...Good introductory text A few points though 1 How American anti discrimination law works is not how anti discrimination law has to work i.e Canadian anti discrimination law is explicitly based on a concept of substantive, not formal equality This is not to imply that Canadian anti discrimination law is perfect in fact, the SCC keeps on having to change the s 15 analysis in order to respond better to s 15 claims, but I do think that it is possible to have meaningful anti discrimination law Good introductory text A few points though 1 How American anti discrimination law works is not how anti discrimination law has to work i.e Canadian anti discrimination law is explicitly based on a concept of substantive, not formal equality ...Through succinct, effective writing, Spade offers an intersectional analysis on the problem with equality and why radical movement building is key to dismantling systemic and structural oppression, in lieu of legal reforms rooted in law enforcement and nonprofitization, which only reinforce racialized gendered social control and violence for people of color, indigenous people, immigrants, people with disabilities, poor people, and gender nonconforming and trans people By leveraging his white Through succinct, effective writing, Spade offers an intersectional analysis on the problem with equality and why radical movement building is key to dismantling systemic and structu...Seriously cannot recommend this book highly enough Spade lays out clearly why legal solutions and rights based advocacy, like same sex marriage, will never be enough to fix the problems for trans people He also goes on to actually suggest how to do better what meaningful change looks like, and how lawyers need to learn to take a step back.I m going to be sitting and thinking through the ideas present in this book for a long time It s relevant to an...So good An easy to read book which is a credit to Spade since a lot of the things he discusses are the same ones that many other authors make as dense as hell I loved the combination of both theoretical arguments and on the ground practical stuff.brilliant book the only thing i wish spade would have addressed is the urbancentrism and metronormativity of queer and trans politics both liberal and radical.

• English
• 07 June 2018
Dean Spade
• Paperback
• 248 pages
• 0896087964
• Dean Spade
• Normal Life