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15 ConLawNOW 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/akjopal15 and id is 1 raw text is: THE NEW INTERSECTIONAL AND ANTI-RACIST LGBTQIA+ POLITICS: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PATH AHEAD Marc Spindelman * Something remarkable has been happening lately inside LGBTQIA+ communities and movements. It involves the widespread stirring and shifting of individual and collective political consciousness in directions and to a scale not seen before. These changes to LGBTQIA+ consciousness-and the politics they are producing-would not be happening without the great works of multiple generations of queer ancestors and elders, many of them trans and people of color.' Recalling these forbearers in no way overlooks the efforts of newer generations of activists and organizers, both in the movements for Black lives and among queer Black and trans people and collectives, all variously insisting that LGBTQIA+ communities must *© Marc Spindelman. All Rights Reserved, 2023. These remarks are the edited version of an address presented at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, on April 30, 2023, both as part of the Midwest LGBTQ+ Rights Conference and the Washington University Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series. Very special thanks to Maryn Lowell and Karen Tokarz for the invitations to speak, and to Susan Appleton and Marlon Bailey for incredibly generous and thoughtful commentary on the work. For various forms of supportive engagement with drafts of this work as it took shape, deep thanks to Amna Akbar, Kathy Baker, Matthew Birkhold, Maria Bruno, Courtney Cahill, Tayo Clybum, Brookes Hammock, Ann Tweedy, Joseph Wenger, and Shannon Winnubst. Many thanks, too, to Ryan Ackerman, Marcus Andrews, and Sophie Krueger for research assistance, and to Amy Tomaszewski for help with sources. 1. See, e.g., Raquel Willis, IBelieve in Black Trans Power, YOUTUBE at 8:27 (June 17, 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqlw7glqwkU; Marsha Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and the History of Pride Month, SMITHSONIAN (June 7, 2021), https://www.si.edu/stories/marsha-johnson-sylvia- rivera-and-history-pride-month; Nicole Pasulka, Ladies in the Streets: Before Stonewall, Transgender Uprising Changed Lives, NPR: CODE SWITCH (May 5, 2015, 4:52 PM), https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/05/404459634/ladies-in-the-streets-before- stonewall-transgender-uprising-changed-lives. See also, e.g., Scott James, Queer People of Color Led the L.G.B.T.Q. Charge, But Were Denied the Rewards, N.Y. TIMES (June 22, 2019), https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/us/lgbtq-minorities-trans-activists.html. For some commentary on queer Black trans politics and the ways they can and do refract conventional conceptions of civil rights, see Marc Spindelman, Queer Black Trans Politics and Constitutional Originalism, 13 CONLAWNOW 93 (2022). 1

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