Spade and Stanley
The QFT will be co-sponsoring a talk on February 9th with the LGBT Resource Center–
It is our great pleasure to host Dean Spade & Eric Stanley for a discussion on their recently released books: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press) and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (South End Press). This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Thursday, February 9 12pm-1:30pm Meeting Room A in the New Student Community Center
Hard copies of Captive Genders & Normal Life can be checked out from the LGBTRC library. We hope you join us for this exciting event.
Sponsored by the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center & the Queer, Feminist, and Transgender Research Cluster.
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Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Lawraises 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 more 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.
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle.
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 University. 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
Eric A. Stanley works at the intersections of radical trans/queer politics, theories of state violence, and visual culture. Eric is currently finishing a PhD in the History of Consciousness department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Along with Chris Vargas, Eric is a co-director of the films Homotopia (2006) and Criminal Queers (2011).