DEAN SPADE, Professor, Seattle University
October 23, 2009 1:00 PM -5:00 PM
Location: LAW 231-237 & HC L-2
DEAN SPADE, Professor, Seattle University
LECTURE, "Trans Politics: Beyond Law & Order," 12-1 PM with reception to
follow, UofA Law Centre 231-237
PANEL, "TRANS.assemblages: Intersectionality and Beyond," with Dean
Spade, Lucas Crawford, Carol D. Allan, Lane Mandlis, and Val Napoleon,
3:30-5 PM, UofA Humanities Centre L-2.
Trans lawyer, scholar, and activist Dean Spade visits Edmonton on
Friday, October 23rd! In the wake of Bill 44 legislation and the
delisting of SRS, queer and trans issues in Alberta are becoming
increasingly influenced by legal discourse. But, as Dean Spade's work
shows, trans politics are also done "beyond law and order" in everyday
and systemic styles of racism, classism, and the many disciplinary
architectures through which we learn what our bodies mean. From prisons
to poverty to psychiatry to post 9/11 surveillance, Dean Spade's version
of 'trans' attends to the many ways in which gender is never a simply
isolated identity or mode of discrimination.
Dean is currently a professor at the Seattle University School of Law.
He also founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in NYC, which provides
free legal services to trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming people
who are low-income and/or people of colour. He has also taught on the
subjects of sexuality, gender, and law at Columbia and Harvard.
*This visit is sponsored by APIRG, the Faculty of Arts, OUTLaw, Women's
Law Forum, the Trudeau Foundation, Peace by Piece, Institute for Sexual
Minority Studies and Services, and Inside/Out.