UNSAFE: S. Lamble and Dean Spade on the Anti-Trans Backlash

Join S. Lamble and Dean Spade for an urgent discussion on the pernicious role of the politics of fear and exclusion in the anti-trans backlash and beyond.

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Amidst a rising tide of anti-trans legislation and discrimination on both sides of the Atlantic, the powerful and seductive narrative of protecting ‘safety’ - particularly of women and children - through carceral responses has been deployed again and again, depending on conjured ‘threats’ and the policing of difference.

Yet such responses fail to address root causes of harm, instead weaponising one group's 'safety' against another's, and legitimising forms of violence, categorisation, and exclusion that ultimately serve to harm us all.

In this conversation, celebrating the launch of Unsafe: the Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash, Lamble and Spade will examine the roots of such approaches and discuss how we construct an alternate vision: one of a safety rooted in collective care, solidarity, and transformative justice.

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Speakers:

Lamble is a community organizer and Professor of Criminology and Queer Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. Their work explores questions of gender, sexuality, and justice with a focus on feminist and abolitionist alternatives to prisons, police, and punishment. They are based in London.

Dean Spade has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation, anti-militarism, and police and prison abolition for the past 30 years. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). His latest book is Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together, and he is the host of a new podcast with the same name.

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