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Dean Spade (born 1977) is an American lawyer, writer, trans activist, and associate professor of law at Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective in New York City that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. Spade was a staff attorney at SRLP from 2002 to 2006, during which time he presented testimony to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission and helped achieve a major victory for transgender youth in foster care in the Jean Doe v. Bell case. Spade was also involved with the campaign in 2009 to stop Seattle from building a new jail.

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  • Dean Spade (1977) és un advocat, escriptor, i professor associat de Dret a la , on imparteix cursos sobre acció policial, empresonament, gènere, raça i moviments socials. (ca)
  • Dean Spade (born 1977) is an American lawyer, writer, trans activist, and associate professor of law at Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective in New York City that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. Spade was a staff attorney at SRLP from 2002 to 2006, during which time he presented testimony to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission and helped achieve a major victory for transgender youth in foster care in the Jean Doe v. Bell case. Spade was also involved with the campaign in 2009 to stop Seattle from building a new jail. The Advocate named Spade one of their "Forty Under 40" in May 2010. Utne Reader named Spade and on their list of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in 2009, for their collaborative project Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism. Spade was the 2009-2010 Haywood Burns Chair at CUNY Law School, the Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow at UCLA Law School and Harvard Law School, and was selected to give the 2009-2010 James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School. He received a Jesse Dukeminier Award for the article "Documenting Gender". Spade has written extensively about his personal experience as a trans law professor and student. This includes writings on transphobia in higher education as well as the class privilege of being a professor. He has also written about the limitations of the law's ability to address issues of inequity and injustice. His research interests have included the impact of the War on Terror on transgender rights, the bureaucratization of trans identities, models of non-profit governance in social movements, and the limits of enhanced hate crime penalties. His first book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, was released in January 2012 from South End Press and nominated for a 2011 Lambda Literary Award in the category of Transgender Nonfiction. Spade has collaborated extensively in the past, including editing two special issues of Sexuality Research and Social Policy with Paisley Currah and coauthoring a guide to Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men with Dr. Nick Gorton. Spade has collaborated particularly frequently with sociologist Craig Willse. Their collaborative projects include I Still Think Marriage is the Wrong Goal, a manifesto and Facebook group. Willse and Spade were also the co-creators of MAKE, "propaganda for activist agitation", a paper zine (1999–2001) and website (2001–2007). In the past, Spade has written other zines including Piss and Vinegar (2002), telling the story of his transphobic arrest during the 2002 World Economic Forum protests in New York City. interviewed Spade and Willse about the experience in Maximumrocknroll. (en)
  • Dean Spade (né en 1977) est un professeur de droit, un avocat, et un activiste trans américain, engagé notamment en faveur des droits des personnes transgenres. Il est le fondateur en 2002 du Sylvia Rivera Law Project, un collectif qui fournit des services juridiques gratuits aux personnes transgenres, intersexuées, non conformes au genre à faible revenu et / ou aux personnes racisées. Spade a également participé à la campagne en 2009 qui visait à empêcher la construction d'une nouvelle prison à Seattle. (fr)
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  • Spade in 2015 (en)
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  • Dean Spade (1977) és un advocat, escriptor, i professor associat de Dret a la , on imparteix cursos sobre acció policial, empresonament, gènere, raça i moviments socials. (ca)
  • Dean Spade (né en 1977) est un professeur de droit, un avocat, et un activiste trans américain, engagé notamment en faveur des droits des personnes transgenres. Il est le fondateur en 2002 du Sylvia Rivera Law Project, un collectif qui fournit des services juridiques gratuits aux personnes transgenres, intersexuées, non conformes au genre à faible revenu et / ou aux personnes racisées. Spade a également participé à la campagne en 2009 qui visait à empêcher la construction d'une nouvelle prison à Seattle. (fr)
  • Dean Spade (born 1977) is an American lawyer, writer, trans activist, and associate professor of law at Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective in New York City that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. Spade was a staff attorney at SRLP from 2002 to 2006, during which time he presented testimony to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission and helped achieve a major victory for transgender youth in foster care in the Jean Doe v. Bell case. Spade was also involved with the campaign in 2009 to stop Seattle from building a new jail. (en)
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