Human Rights and Immigration Lawyer Contact Me
Year: 2011
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 …
“That Woman Who Comes to Clean”
That woman who comes to clean What do you know about her? She’s just the woman who enters your office after hours Leaving your office nice and clean for the next business day. That woman who comes to clean Washes Read More …
Home-Bound
San Francisco looks like heaven from the skies. I’m leaving my home for a new one. Home has always been a site of violence and repression but also one where I’m loved and cared for the most. I’m going to Read More …