Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow: Dean Spade

Dean Spade 2006 - 2008 Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow

“Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics.” Co-authored with Craig Willse. 11 Widener L. Rev. 309 (2005)

“Fighting to Win.” in That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, ed. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, (2004).

“Once More . . . with Feeling.” Inside Out: FTM and Beyond, ed. Morty Diamond, (2004).

“My Memory and My Witness.” Co-authored with Elisabeth Goldschmidt, in Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, ed. Michelle Tea, (2004).

“Transecting the Academy.” Co-authored with Sel Wahng. GLQ 10. 2, (2004).

“Resisting Medicine/Remodeling Gender.” 18 Berkeley Women’s Law Journal, (2003), excerpted in Sexuality, Gender, and the Law, 2004 Foundation Press, eds. William Eskridge and Nan Hunter.

Dean Spade
2006 - 2008 Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow

Dean Spade completed his undergraduate studies at Barnard College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, and was awarded the Jane S. Gould Prize for Best Women’s Studies Senior Thesis. He is a 2001 Order of the Coif graduate of UCLA School of Law, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review and an Emil J. Stache Public Interest Law Fellow.

In 2002, Dean founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (www.srlp.org), an innovative law collective focused on gender, racial, and economic justice. SRLP provides free legal help to low-income people and people of color facing gender identity and/or expression discrimination. SRLP also operates on a collective governance model, prioritizing the governance and leadership of trans, intersex, and gender variant people of color.

Dean’s current research interests include the impact of the War on Terror on transgender rights, the bureaucratization of trans identities, and models of non-profit governance in social movements.

PUBLICATIONS

"The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part I." Sexuality
Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 1–6, Co-authored with
Paisley Currah (2007). Click to download (PDF): The State We're in (Part I).

"The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part II." Sexuality
Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 1–5, Co-authored with
Paisley Currah (2007). Click to download (PDF): The State We're In (Part II).

"The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Trans Resistance." Sexuality
             Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 53–71, Co-authored
             with Rickke Manazala. Click to download (PDF): The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and
             Trans Resistance.

“Methodology and Trans Resistance.” Forthcoming in A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies), eds. McGarry and Haggerty.

“Compliance is Gendered: Transgender Survival and Social Welfare.” Transgender Rights,, eds. Paisley Currah, Shannon Minter, Richard Juang (2006).

“Mutilating Gender,” in The Transgender Reader, eds. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle (2006)

“For Lovers and Fighters.” We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, ed. Melody Berger (2006).

“Remarks at Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law Symposium.” In Sex, Gender and Crime: The Politics of the State as Protector and Punisher: The Identity Victim, 7 Geo. J. Gender & L. (2006).

“Dress to Kill, Fight to Win.” LTTR 1. (2002).

“Undeserving Addicts: SSI/SSD and the Penalties of Poverty.” 5 Howard Scroll: The Social Justice Law Review 89, (2002).

“Confronting the Limits of Gay Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique.” Co-authored with Craig Willse. Chicano-Latino Law Review, Volume 21, (2000).

“Street Smart.” Images: A Journal of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ,(2000), Volume 1.

"Outing Age: A Working Paper on Policy Issues Facing GLBT Old People." National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, August 1998. Released as final report November 2000.

“SexPanic!–Make the Connections.” Co-authored with Eva Pendleton. Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Volume V, Number 3, (1998).

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Dean Spade
2006 - 2008 Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow

Dean Spade completed his undergraduate studies at Barnard College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, and was awarded the Jane S. Gould Prize for Best Women’s Studies Senior Thesis. He is a 2001 Order of the Coif graduate of UCLA School of Law, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review and an Emil J. Stache Public Interest Law Fellow.

In 2002, Dean founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (www.srlp.org), an innovative law collective focused on gender, racial, and economic justice. SRLP provides free legal help to low-income people and people of color facing gender identity and/or expression discrimination. SRLP also operates on a collective governance model, prioritizing the governance and leadership of trans, intersex, and gender variant people of color.

Dean’s current research interests include the impact of the War on Terror on transgender rights, the bureaucratization of trans identities, and models of non-profit governance in social movements.

PUBLICATIONS

"The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part I." Sexuality
             Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 1–6, Co-authored with
             Paisley Currah (2007). Click to download (PDF): The State We're in (Part I).

"The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part II." Sexuality
             Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 1–5, Co-authored with
             Paisley Currah (2007). Click to download (PDF): The State We're In (Part II).

"The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Trans Resistance." Sexuality
             Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 53–71, Co-authored
             with Rickke Manazala. Click to download (PDF): The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and
             Trans Resistance.

“Methodology and Trans Resistance.” Forthcoming in A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies), eds. McGarry and Haggerty.

“Compliance is Gendered: Transgender Survival and Social Welfare.” Transgender Rights,, eds. Paisley Currah, Shannon Minter, Richard Juang (2006).

“Mutilating Gender,” in The Transgender Reader, eds. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle (2006)

“For Lovers and Fighters.” We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, ed. Melody Berger (2006).

“Remarks at Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law Symposium.” In Sex, Gender and Crime: The Politics of the State as Protector and Punisher: The Identity Victim, 7 Geo. J. Gender & L. (2006).

“Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics.” Co-authored with Craig Willse. 11 Widener L. Rev. 309 (2005)

“Fighting to Win.” in That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, ed. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, (2004).

“Once More . . . with Feeling.” Inside Out: FTM and Beyond, ed. Morty Diamond, (2004).

“My Memory and My Witness.” Co-authored with Elisabeth Goldschmidt, in Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, ed. Michelle Tea, (2004).

“Transecting the Academy.” Co-authored with Sel Wahng. GLQ 10. 2, (2004).

“Resisting Medicine/Remodeling Gender.” 18 Berkeley Women’s Law Journal, (2003), excerpted in Sexuality, Gender, and the Law, 2004 Foundation Press, eds. William Eskridge and Nan Hunter.

“Dress to Kill, Fight to Win.” LTTR 1. (2002).

“Undeserving Addicts: SSI/SSD and the Penalties of Poverty.” 5 Howard Scroll: The Social Justice Law Review 89, (2002).

“Confronting the Limits of Gay Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique.” Co-authored with Craig Willse. Chicano-Latino Law Review, Volume 21, (2000).

“Street Smart.” Images: A Journal of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ,(2000), Volume 1.

"Outing Age: A Working Paper on Policy Issues Facing GLBT Old People." National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, August 1998. Released as final report November 2000.

“SexPanic!–Make the Connections.” Co-authored with Eva Pendleton. Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Volume V, Number 3, (1998).