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SUMMARY:What’s Wrong With Rights? Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics & the Limits of Law
DESCRIPTION:The Critical Law, Gender and Sexualities Speaker Series invites you to a talk by Dean Spade:
What's Wrong with Rights? Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law.



Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people



in the US has reflected the civil rights and “equality" strategies of



mainstream gay and lesbian organizations - agitating for legal reforms



that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and



equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the state



and its legal, policing, and social services apparatus - even its policies



and documents of belonging and non-belonging - are neutral and



benevolent. However, many trans people, especially the most



marginalized, are more at risk for poverty, violence, and premature - or



social - death by virtue of those same putatively neutral legal structures.



Join us for a talk by attorney, educator, and trans activist Dean Spade



on his new book Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans



Politics and the Limits of Law (South End Press, 2011). Visit Dean's



website at www.deanspade.net.



Anyone interested in participating in a reading group of Chapter One of



Normal Life on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 4:00pm should contact



Stacy_Douglas@carleton.ca for more information.
LOCATION:Room 2017 Dunton Tower, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
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