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Month: August 2011
Reading and Rioting
My dear law school friend Sam Ames, tells all current and budding lawyers to read Tips for Communicating with Transgender Clients in Prisoners’ Rights Cases that was published by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. If you are starting law school Read More …
Confessions
“Stop being a monk and tell her. Nothing changes if you don’t tell her.” “No, if I do that, I lose a friend. And she loses a friend. I can’t do that to her.” I take a long swig of Read More …
Gender Boundaries
When we allow women/queer organizers to leave activist spaces and protect people whose violence provoked their departure, we are saying we value these de facto state agents who disrupt the work more than we value people whose labor builds and Read More …
Need A Work Permit? Place Yourself In Deportation
Today, in a letter to Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) and 21 other Senators, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the Administration has established a new process for handling the deportation cases of DREAM Act students Read More …
Credentials
“Hi, do you have credentials to live here?” I looked up at him. Average-size, middle-aged, white male. Probably straight. “Excuse me?” Now women usually say “excuse me” not because we didn’t hear you correctly the first time. We say “excuse Read More …