Compliance is Gendered:
Trans Survival in a Hostile World
DEAN SPADE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,
SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT

When: Friday, March 11, 2005
Time: 6:00 pm
Where: ALLGO's Tillery Street Theater
Cost: FREE and OPEN to the public
FMI: (512) 472-2001 ext. 108 / joanne@allgo.org

ALLGO, The Center for Gender and Sexuality, LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Texas present …

Dean Spade makes a special appearance in Austin for a discussion about obstacles for transpeople. Compliance is Gendered: Trans Survival in a Hostile World will focus on the exclusion of issues most affecting poor people and people of color from the mainstream LGBT community. Housing, immigration and access to medical resources are some of the specific issues to be addressed.

Dean Spade is a trans attorney and activist, and founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP). SRLP is a collective legal organization providing free legal services to low-income people and people of color facing gender identity discrimination, and engaging in public education, policy reform, and community organizing support focused on issues relevant to trans, intersex and gender non-conforming people. Spade’s writing has appeared in the Berkeley Women’s Law Journal, the Howard Scroll, GLQ, the Harvard Lesbian and Gay Review, the Chicano-Latino Law Review and other publications. His essays have appeared in the recent books, Without a Net edited by Michelle Tea, and That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Sycamore. Dean is also co-editor of the online journal makezine.org.

For more information about the important work the Sylvia Rivera Law Project accomplishes please visit www.srlp.org.