Join us for a presentation and discussion with prominent transgender scholar-activists Dean Spade and Eric Stanley on the limits of the contemporary LGBT and feminist movements. Spade and Stanley will be discussing their recent books, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law and Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, which present novel interventions to our understanding of the law and the criminal justice system. Drawing from Critical Race Analysis and lessons from feminist and queer organizing, Spade and Stanley present compelling critiques of legal rights frameworks, the prison industrial complex, criminalization, and the authority of the State that are pertinent to all people invested in social justice and human rights. An attorney, educator, and trans activist Dean Spade has taught classes on sexual orientation, gender identity, poverty and law at the City University of New York (CUNY), Seattle University, Columbia University, and Harvard University. In 2002 he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a collective that provides free legal services and works to build trans resistance rooted in racial and economic justice Eric A. Stanley works at the intersections of radical trans/queer politics, theories of state violence, and visual culture. Eric is currently finishing a PhD in the History of Consciousness department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.