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women and the law

3 posts in ‘women and the law’

advocacy

The Right to Be Called Workers

Language of ‘trafficking’ and ‘slavery’ disempowers migrant sex workers while directing attention away from state violence.

Chanelle Gallant & Elene Lam

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campaigns

Do You Know Their Names?

When slain by police, Black women and girls rarely garner the same communal outcry or political response as their fallen Black brothers.

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

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Sexual Policing

Law enforcement of women’s bodies is a structural and systematic form of police violence. All of us are less safe if we don’t end this brutal expression of state-sanctioned power.

Anne Gray Fischer

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