![]() Most trans people lack a safety net, he said, due to factors involving both their poverty and the discrimination that keeps them out of jobs. They’re also often from households where parents are also affected by systemic discrimination and poverty.” He explained the cyclical and even generational factors that played a role: “A lot of people who come to SRLP come to us out of youth services, where they’ve faced gender segregation, where they have to go into mandatory systems where that can be forced into the wrong group, leaving them unsafe. Much of his talk was based on a critique of the prison industrial complex ( PIC ). Its primary aim is to address the issues of poverty and severe incarceration that affect low-income transgender communities and transgender communities of color.īuilding upon his experiences as a poverty lawyer, Spade provided a historical and cultural context to explain why trans communities are so overwhelmingly faced with these issues. Spade founded the organization in 2002 (it became a collective in 2003), and specifically set up to work with and for trans people. Speaking to a packed room, Spade began by contextualizing the very specific issues faced by many trans people, particularly those who lack economic resources and constitute the clients at SRLP. ![]() ![]() Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. ![]()
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