Episode 137: Dean Spade
Gender Reveal
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What Is Pragmatic and What Will Actually Help People?
A big theme throughout your work has been that like civil rights laws are not going to actually save us because writing down in a book somewhere that people have to respect us is not going to make them respect us. So I am interested if going for more civil rights laws, which people are actually really into right now in this moment is not the best way to actually serve queer and trans people in terms of health and safety. What do you see right now being better avenues for trying to ensure that trans people have access to like healthcare housing, employment, education, like basic things like that? Yeah. A huge part of my work, you know, which really comes from critical race theory, it's
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