So I Wrote This Thing About Rape…
:: Let’s say “running with it” equaled getting my ass kicked, but I finally went through the rape reporting process and wrote the essay. I actually scheduled a date on my planner called “Reporting Day.” Reporting Day was a terrible day....
April is . . . not what I expected: On the commonplace of rape
:: Rape is commonplace until you try to prove to someone else that rape happened. Many of you read my previous post, in which I posted a short story published back in 2008 (by the fabulous Bayou Magazine). I didn’t say in the previous post, but I’m sure...
Liberal Heroes and The Cancel Colbert Twitter “Debate”
:: White liberals love Colbert. He’s their hero. Colbert (and others like him) is white liberals’ modern-day Atticus Finch. He’s a screen-based liberal hero who makes white liberals feel good about themselves by taking down easy conservative and...
What “Counts” as Knowledge
:: How do we teach our law students to prioritize alternative sources of knowledge? To prioritize “vernacular thought, theory, community, maps, places, intuitions”? This seems to me to be a critical lawyering skill, at the intersection of client...
The New Jim Crow and “Those We View As Guilty”
:: Michelle Alexander: “My great crime was imagining that there was a path to racial justice that didn’t include those we view as guilty.” I recently went to see Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...01. About Me
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