Social Justice for Gender and Sexual Minorities: A Discussion with Paisley Currah and Aeyal Gross

This is a discussion between Professors Aeyal Gross and Paisley Currah, moderated by Joseph Fischel, about how we configure law, legal theory, state recognition, and institutionalized sex classifications in our pursuit of sexual and gender justice. Fischel asks what the terms queer, legal, and studies mean for the scholarship and political commitments of Currah and Gross, whose responses generate a broader discussion about, among other questions: the identitarianism and anti-identitarianism of progressive world-building; the meanings of violence for our movements; state apparatuses’ definitions and delimitations of sex; and why legalization and regulation may present different problems for gender minorities than sexual minorities.