Dean Spade

Jan 21, 2025 | lithub.com | Kim Kelly |Dean Spade |Ruth Gilmore

For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities find themselves under threat, people invariably step up and offer to help. Beloved children’s television star Fred Rogers famously told us to “Look for the helpers” after a tragedy, because he knew we’d see them.

Nov 12, 2024 | truthout.org | Dean Spade

When Trump was elected in 2016, the ACLU’s website featured a photo of him and the words “We’ll See You in Court.” They also rolled out an online campaign asking people to take an oath pledging to defend the Constitution (no specifics about how to do that).

Jul 8, 2024 | truthout.org | Dean Spade

In June, a Florida appeals court upheld Gov. Ron DeSantis’s anti-rioting law. The law, which both increases penalties for existing crimes and creates new crimes aimed at, in DeSantis’s words, ending “the bullying and intimidation tactics of the radical left,” was challenged in a lawsuit that argued it would undermine free speech rights of protesters.

May 29, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Armistead Maupin |Cookie Woolner |Dean Spade |Torrey Peters

Reading Lists These books, both fiction and nonfiction, remind readers of what collective power has achieved in the past, and to imagine what it could do in the future I wrote much of Lesbian Love Story during the Covid-19 lockdown, when I was desperate to build queer community inside the walls of my own home. From my living room, with the cat making the occasional interjection as she strutted across the keyboard, I slowly connected with a community of archivists at libraries, universities,...

Nov 3, 2023 | mskellymhayes.substack.com | Dean Spade |Kelly Hayes

Photo: Kelly HayesFrom Israel’s ongoing, genocidal assault on Gaza to prison organizing, reproductive justice, and the far-right infiltration of Palestine solidarity protests, here are some important stories you may have missed this week. I’m a Pediatrician in Gaza. Please Save Us From This Horror by Hussam Abu Safyia. “When the fuel runs out, we will no longer be able to function at night after the sun goes down.