The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy invites you to a Race & Sexuality Series event:
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: THE ATTACK ON QUEER, TRANS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR
with Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law
& Andrea Ritchie & Joey Mogul, co-authors, with Kay Whitlock, of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Moderated by Erica Meiners, Visiting Scholar in Residence at IRRPP
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
3pm Panel, 4:30pm Book Signing and Reception
Place: 302 Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted St.
RSVP to Delaina Washington at dcarey3@uic.edu
Dean Spade is assistant professor at Seattle University School of Law. His book, Normal Life, critiques current LGBT strategies that rest solely on a “legal rights framework,” and explores an organized grassroots trans movement that is demanding the most essential of legal reforms and making more comprehensive interventions into dangerous systems of repression. Setting forth a politic that goes beyond the quest for mere legal inclusion, Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.
Andrea Ritchie (police misconduct attorney and organizer) and Joey Mogul (director of the Civil Rights Clinic at DePaul University College of Law) draw on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy in their book Queer (In)Justice, co-authored with Kay Whitlock. In this searing examination of queer experiences--as "suspects," defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime, the authors illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. Tracing stories from the streets to the bench to behind prison bars, the authors prove that the policing of sex and gender both bolsters and reinforces racial and gender inequalities. A groundbreaking work that turns a "queer eye" on the criminal legal system, Queer (In)Justice illuminates and challenges the many ways in which queer lives are criminalized, policed, and punished.Cosponsored by the English Department, the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice, and the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues.
All are welcome to attend!IRRPP’s Race and Sexuality Series is a multi-format series explores the intersections of race/ethnicity with sexual orientation, gender identity, class and other forms of oppression. This year’s program focuses on LGBTQ people.
For more information on IRRPP or the Race and Sexuality Series, email us at irrpp@uic.edu.
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