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Sex Worker, Not Prostitute
I first heard about using the term “sex worker” instead of “prostitute” while listening to an episode of “My Favorite Murder”,112 – Our Bodies, Our Twelves, My Favorite Murder (Apr. 14, 2016) (downloaded using iTunes). a true-crime comedy podcast, demonstrating how…
Restricting Mandatory Arbitration Agreements in Sexual Harassment Cases
In the United States, over sixty million employees are subject to mandatory arbitration agreements as a condition of employment.1Alexander J.S. Colvin, The Growing Use of Mandatory Arbitration: Access to the Courts is Now Barred For More Than 60 Million American Workers,…Matter of A-B- and the Rejection of Refugees from Domestic Violence
In June 2018, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions released the controversial asylum decision Matter of A-B-.1A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018); see also Katie Benner & Caitlin Dickerson, Sessions Says Domestic and Gang Violence Are Not Grounds for Asylum, N.Y.No Status, No Hope: Women Refugees in Israel
Women refugees are one of the most marginalized populations in the world. As with all asylum seekers, women refugees face persecution both in their home country and their host country because of their status and identity. The situation is even worse in Israel, which continues to deny refugee status to…
Title IX Lawsuits as a Strategy for Integrating Fraternities
In February, three undergraduate women attending Yale filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court requesting a court order that Yale-affiliated fraternities allow women to join. The plaintiffs allege that the exclusively male fraternities create a hostile environment on campus for women and that, by excluding women, only men can…
Shame Punishments for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
In a surprising trend, judges in the late 1990s increasingly issued “shame sanctions,” punishments which cause a person to feel lessor in relation to other members of society.1See Toni M. Massaro, Shame, Culture, and American Criminal Law, 89 Mich. L. Rev.
We Aren’t Going Anywhere: Broadening Perspectives from 1992 to 2019
It’s probably no coincidence that the Michigan Journal of Gender and Law was founded in 1992—a year coined as “The Year of the Woman.” It was in 1992 that the nation watched uncomfortably as Professor Anita Hill confronted patriarchy in its ugliest form—forced to testify to a wall of judgmental,…“Stealthing” is Sexual Assault, Let’s Start Saying it in Court
“Stealthing,” the act of non-consensually removing one’s condom during sex, came to my attention in 2017 when the issue went viral in the online-feminist space. The fact that this act has a name immediately signaled to me its grotesque ubiquity. More than just an assaultive practice, stealthing is a community.