Normal Life -Dean Spade

"This Is a Protest, Not a Parade!"

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What Roles Legal Work Should Have in Critical Trans Politics?

1. Providing legal services to the most vulnerable trans people

2. Demystifying legal systems

3. Developing law and policy reform targets as campaign issues

4. Providing technical assitance

Building Transformative Resistance: Tools and Strategies

Key Concerns with Nonprofit Model

The Four Pillars

1. The Pillar of Policy

2. The Pillar of Consciousness

3. The Pillar Service

4. The Pillar of Power

Continued- Nonprofit Industrial Complex

"...the rise of nonprofitization and philanthropic control, there has been a shift away from the traditionally central strategy of social movement work: building change by mobilizing the participation of a mass base of directly impacted people who share an experience of harm and a demand for transforming it" (pg. 174)

"The governance structures of most nonprofits, characterized by boards consisting of donors and elite professionals perpetuate dynamics of white supremacy, capitalism, patriarch, ableism, and zenophobia" (pg.176)

Nonprofit Industiral Complex

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Criminalization

"Together, these two forces established narrow parameters in which social movements work could occur- solely in forms that do not threaten the white supremacist political and economic status quo of the United States" (pg. 173)

Mobilization

by Jahmel Martin

Rise of Neoliberalism

Two interconnected challenges

Emerging Trans Politics

"As Ruth Gilmore describes, the rise of neoliberalism from the 1970s to the present has caused the growth of a shadow state of volunteer-based and/or nonprofit organizations that fill the gaps in social services created by the government abandonment" (pg.173)

1. Understanding the problems of legal demands within lesbian and gay politics

2. Assessment of nonprofitization of social movements

Outline:

Lesbian and Gay Rights Work

Neoliberalism:

An approach to economics and social studies in which control of economic factors is shifted from the public sector to the private sector. Drawing upon principles of neoclassical economics, neoliberalism suggests that governments reduce deficit spending, limit subsidies, reform tax law to broaden the tax base, remove fixed exchange rates, open up markets to trade by limiting protectionism, privatize state-run businesses, allow private property and back deregulation.

1. an analysis of why and how law- reform dominated agendas stem form professionalized, lawyer overrun, foundation funded organizational structures that have com to dominate social justice work in the context of neoliberalism

2. introduces a useful tool, developed by Miami Workers Center (MWC), that considers social movements' infrastructure in a way that helps us re-imagine the role of law reform tactics in resistance work focused on mobilization

3. provides several detailed examples of how organizations committed to trans-liberation can and are creating movement infrastructure and critical trans political practice

1. Narrow focus- does not reach the most vulnerable targets of homophobia

2. Legalistic approach are linked to concerns about an unjust distribution of power and leadership

Social Movements Aiming to Mobilize:

• how to devise methods of participation and decision-making
• create shared political analysis
• generate and manage resources to feed the work
• build and sustain leadership