Lawyers for the Abused and Lawyers for the Accused: An Interfaith Marriage

In this article, we will explore what unites lawyers for the abused and lawyers for the accused. In Part II, we will discuss our connection as poverty lawyers concerned about the dignity of individual clients. In Part III, we will discuss our shared commitment to the adversarial system, legal process, and access to justice. In Part IV, we will address the challenge of teaching students who represent victims or perpetrators to be zealous and devoted advocates - but also to care about social and legal injustice on both sides

The Politics of Impossibility: CeCe McDonald and Trayvon Martin— the Bursting of Black Rage

What can the affect of black rage do in a era of impossibility marked by the circulation of neoliberal post-race post-feminist themes? I argue that black rage is a key weapon in the fight against our impossible era—black rage operates through an affective bursting apart, disrupting circulating narratives connected to a post racial, post feminist world and charting a new path of social unrest that has the potential to transform the social order. I locate political uses of black rage through two case studies: CeCe McDonald, a black Trans* woman who was brutally attacked by a group of transphobic and white supremacist in summer of 2012. And in the Justice for Trayvon Martin March and Rally in Atlanta, Georgia in July of 2013. Both cases studies prove black rage can collectivize the struggles of differing people producing a feeling of possibility during our era of impossibility

Popular music and/as event: subjectivity, love and fidelity in the aftermath of rock ’n’ roll

This article concerns the usefulness of attaching a philosophy of the event to popular music studies. I am attempting to think about the ways that rock ’n’ roll functions as a musical revolution that becomes subjected to a narrative of loss accompanying the belief that the revolution has floundered, or even disappeared completely. In order to think about what this narrative of loss might entail I have found myself going back to the emergence of rock ’n’ roll, to what we might term its ‘event’, and then working towards the present to take stock of the current situation. The article is divided into three parts. Part One attempts to think of the emergence of rock ’n’ roll and its attendant discourse alongside Alain Badiou’s notion of event, looking at ways in which listening subjects are formed. Part Two continues the discussion of listening subjectivity while shifting the focus to objects associated with phonography. Part Three attends to a number of difficulties encountered in the Badiouian project and asks to what extent rock music might be thought of as a lost cause. All three parts deal with notions of subjectivity, love and fidelit

Law\u27s Constitution: A Relational Critique

It is a simple fact: we begin from others. Without others we, quite literally, could not live, feel, be born. Every mother, every mother\u27s partner, every father, every child, knows this. But law sees these relations as something lesser, as foreign. Mention the word relationship to the average lawyer and she will likely assume that you are talking about sex, dating, or perhaps marriage. She may even wonder what relationship has to do with the law at all. In this paper, the author wonders whether it is possible to flip that equation, to think of the relational as central, rather than peripheral, to law\u27s most ambitious public projects. Her hypothesis is two-fold: first, that the relational question is known by, and important to, feminism; and, second, that the relational is important beyond feminism, indeed that it is important to our ideas of constitution and law itself. If this is right, then focusing on relationships is far from the marginal project that it is often assumed to be. Indeed, it may allow feminism to predict new ways of seeing law. The author offers examples from her own legal experience--in criminal law and constitutional law--that shows what she calls (for lack of a better term) the relational critique. What she mean by this is two things: (1) that many of the concepts that we see in law, that seem mundane, natural or given, stand as proxies for normative relations; (2) that by disaggregating the natural object--by seeing relations in naturalized descriptions--we can see the law creating/ generating/constituting. Put another way, this paper is about thinking relationally—the author wonders whether it is possible or wise to substitute the relational question for the sameness question or the difference question--not only in cases of concern to feminists but cases elsewhere in the law

The Estancia News, 02-03-1911

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Unless the Lord Build the House

Unless the Lord Builds the House is a work of creative nonfiction about two years of my life as my chronic Lyme disease altered how I had to live and how I thought about my life . There are three major threads that I explore. The first theme is about losing my old self. There was an old Alicia and a new Alicia, and I explore my frustration at losing the old Alicia. I explore this by talking about building. I see myself as a house under renovation, and I write about my struggle to let go of my past self and everything that came with that to accept the new things being built. The second theme follows me feeling like I\u27m not enough, and being angry at myself for that. My symptoms were very neurological, and I couldn\u27t do much for a long time. Other people had to take care of me, and that made me upset because I felt like people wouldn\u27t love me. The third is what ties everything together, and that is my relationship with God. I love Jesus and see Him as the most important part of my life, so that influences this piece a lot because it alters the way I see the world. This theme focuses on being close to God. There is a story in the Bible in which Moses goes up on a mountain to meet with God, and when he comes down, his face is radiant--shiny--so I use images of gold and radiance to talk about being close to God. This experience of illness changed and deepened my relationship with Jesus, and taught me more about how much He loves me and that I don\u27t have to be perfect--I don\u27t have to be enough --because He already is. I hope that no matter your beliefs, you find encouragement in this story

Spartan Daily, February 8, 1951

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