DEAN SPADE is a lawyer, civil rights activist, writer and Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective in New York City that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. His first book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law was released in December 2011.