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“I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.”

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Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

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One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into…

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Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

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More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and…

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Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector…

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In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal reform strategies encourage…

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"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all…

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I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.

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Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

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My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal…

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Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements,…

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