Law Reform and Movement Building

Law Reform and Movement Building
Social movements aiming to mobilize people around shared imaginations of transformation must contend with ques- tions of infrastructure: how to devise methods of participation and decision-making, build and sustain leadership, create shared political analysis, and generate and manage resources to feed the work. If we are to focus on “bottom-up” mobilization for trans- formative change rather than top-down empty declarations of equality, we need to build social movement infrastructure that can support mobilization. This chapter begins with an analysis of why and how law reform–dominated agendas stem from pro- fessionalized, lawyer-overrun, foundation-funded organizational structures that have come to dominate social justice work in the context of neoliberalism. This chapter also introduces a useful tool, developed by the Miami Workers Center (MWC),1 that considers social movement infrastructure in a way that helps us re-imagine the role of law reform tactics in resistance work focused on mobilization. Finally, this chapter provides several detailed examples of how organizations committed to trans liberation can and are creating movement infrastructure and critical trans political practice.
Having examined the limitations of traditional law reform strategies as well as some of the questions that emerge when using
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