Interview with Dean Spade

An interview with Dean Spade, a white trans activist, writer and teacher. He founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. He is the author of the book Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, and, at the time of this interview, taught at the Seattle University School of Law. In this oral history interview, Spade discusses his early life, becoming an activist in New York in the 1990s, the decision to pursue a law degree, and the process of founding SRLP. In addition, Dean discusses the mainstreaming of trans politics and his belief in the value of mutual aid projects.

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Identifier: vd66w021c
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Spade, Dean
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Nov. 9, 2019
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Places: New York
Illinois > Cook County > City of Chicago > Chicago
Virginia
Washington > King > Seattle University
Topic(s): LGBTQ+ communities
LGBTQ+ people of color
Nonprofit organizations
Trans men
Transgender authors
Transgender political activists
White transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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