Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

The Normal Life: Administrative Violence from the Sexual to the Carceral State by Dean Spade is a groundbreaking book that challenges the conventional wisdom of legal equality as the solution to social change for marginalized populations, particularly trans people.

This revised and expanded edition includes a new afterword that examines recent efforts by the Obama administration and trans equality advocates to "pinkwash" state violence by articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans inclusion reforms.

Spade's critiques of the legal equality framework for social change are revelatory, and his descriptions of transformative grassroots activism that goes beyond traditional civil rights reforms are inspiring.

This book is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and it is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complex issues facing marginalized communities today.