Queer Militarism?!: The Politics of Military Inclusion Advocacy in Authoritarian Times

Dean Spade is an associate professor at the Seattle University School of Law. He has been working in movements to build queer and trans liberation based on racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (2015), the director of the documentary Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back! (pink-washingexposed.net), and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book is Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity during This Crisis (and the Next) (2020).

Aaron Belkin is a scholar and advocate who, since 1999, has served as founding director of the Palm Center, which the Advocate named as one of the most effective LGBT rights organizations in the United States. He designed and implemented much of the public education campaign that helped end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and summarized lessons learned in How We Won: Progressive Lessons from the Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which Arianna Huffington praised as a “best practices guide for civil rights fights.” He has written and edited more than thirty scholarly articles, chapters, and books.