Author: juliacmudry
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Katri’s Intrasectional Approach to Transgender Law and Litigation
“The framing of anti-discrimination law through protected classes and the law’s use of the outside gaze to conclude whether or not an act is discriminatory, show that the law utilizes performance in deciding cases and allocating rights.” As a result, Katri argues that if we apply an intrasectional legal analysis of the protected classes relating…
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Trans-misogyny and EO 14168
In this essay, I will explain Executive Order 14168 (EO) and apply a “problem body” framework to the states’ characterization of trans women. Through the “’gender troubled’ problem body” framework, I will compare the British Colonial (BC) characterization of hijras and EO characterization of trans women. Broadly, the relationship suggests that problem bodies are dangerous…
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Every Mother Counts
Everymothercounts.org/films/ “Every Mother Counts” discusses “Making Midwives”: a recently founded program in Haiti that addresses maternal/baby mortality and discomfort by training students to become midwives. Each video focuses on one specific student or instructor, including Juslene, Genette, and Philomene, along with the founder Nadene. Each training midwife explains why they became part of the program,…
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Kamala Harris Visits Abortion Clinic
Kamala Harris Visits Abortion Clinic, in Historic First discusses the Biden administration’s recent initiatives to protect and advocate for abortion rights. Vice President Kamala Harris has become the “most outspoken defender of abortion rights in the administration” and is on a nationwide tour to advocate for abortion rights. VP Harris has visited five states on…
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Unmasking the Abuser – Dina McMillan
Dina McMillan’s Ted Talk addresses common behavioral patterns among abusers and offers advice for people seeking or in relationships, ultimately laying out early warning signs for abusive relationships. As a social psychologist, McMillan studies influence and interaction and examines persuasion and coercion. Through conducting interviews with abusers, she identifies universal tactics of abusers and argues…
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Vibrators & Choice-Feminism
“Since I began to understand feminism, I love to [masturbate with a vibrator],” says a woman participating in the 1976 Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality. [1] Second-wave feminists were divided about the relationship between sexual pleasure and women’s liberation, which prompted debate about the vibrator as a “‘male-identified’ and anti-feminist form of…
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Intersectionality
Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to enforce the idea that we need to incorporate multiplicity and the idea of a matrix when thinking about identity, culture, and theory regarding systems of oppression. More specifically, individuals have aspects of their identity that compound to impact their lived experiences and how they are treated in society.…
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Aristophanes’ Speech from the Symposium
Aristophanes’ speech from the symposium attempts to define love and explains why people love who they love. A symposium was a social gathering for men in ancient Greece and included activities that were meant to bring people together. This speech was recorded by Plato in Greece in the fifth century BCE. Aristophanes was a comedic…
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Brief Timeline of Reproductive Rights
1873: Comstock Act 1916: Margaret Sanger, fellow activist, and sister opened the first U.S. abortion clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn. 1921: Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League 1936: U.S. v One Package 1960: Enovid 1965: Griswold v. Connecticut 1967-1972: States reform abortion laws 1972: Eisenstadt v Baird 1973: Roe v. Wade 1976: Hyde Amendment…
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Supreme Court & Ghost Guns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/22/supreme-court-will-hear-challenge-biden-administration-rule-ghost-guns/ Opinion: I strongly believe that ghost guns should qualify as firearms and that overruling the Biden administration’s ghost gun rule will pose serious public safety risks. In my eyes, if an individual will own an item after assembling a set, then that set should be treated as that item; not doing so is illogical,…
Valuing Justice 