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Ritch K. and Joan Eich: Putting the fan experience back in the golf game
As both fans and marshals who have volunteered at the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) tour events around the country and across the pond, my wife and I believe the PGA has a responsibility to improve the fans' experience by having the modern-day golfer demonstrate greater appreciation to the gallery who help make these tournaments and their huge paydays possible.
When our respective sets of parents first introduced us to the game of professional golf, it was dominated by such classy, caring and conversation-rich pros as Chi Chi Rodriguez, vivacious Tony Lema, daring Arnold Palmer, flamboyant Doug Sanders, the humorous and good-natured Lee Trevino and "Mr. Excellence" Gary Player — to name a few.
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In my just-released book, "Real Leaders Don't Boss," I describe many of the traits leaders in every endeavor have. They were no different — on the course and off.
During the past 30 years, we have been a small part of the British Open, the TPC Championship, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, the Tournament of Champions and such tour stops as Riviera, Palm Desert, Torrey Pines, Pebble Beach, Oakland Hills, Congressional, Sawgrass and invitationals like Sherwood.
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The world has changed dramatically since 9/11 and the resultant enhanced security measures are clearly desirable. But within these necessary parameters, we offer the following suggestions to the PGA as a means of improving the fan experience, an integral part of the health and well-being of the sport:
n When the pros approach the tee box or are just about at the green, encourage them to lift up their heads and smile, or nod or say "thanks for your help" (to the volunteers) or "thanks for coming" (to those in the gallery).
n When the gallery applauds a great shot, smile more often at the gallery and tip their cap (believe it or not, this long-standing gesture happens less all the time).
n When the pro heads to the practice range or to the practice tee before or after he plays, acknowledge the crowd gathered there in some pleasant way.
n When the would-be pro is in qualifying school, include a module about how etiquette, especially to those who pay handsomely to either volunteer at the tournament or buy expensive tickets to watch and park, has been historically an important part of the game.
n When the pro completes his round, encourage him to spend 10-15 minutes greeting families, especially those with small children, and signing autographs.
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Asian American workers now dominate Silicon Valley tech jobs
Asian-Americans make up half of the Bay Area's technology workforce, and their double-digit employment gains came from jobs lost among white tech workers, according to an analysis by this newspaper of Census Bureau data released Thursday. The dramatic shift in the changing composition of the high-tech workforce represents a new generation of homegrown and imported workers drilled in science, technology, engineering and math studies. But the shift in workplace demographics -- at least among tech companies -- fails to reflect the gains of California's Hispanic and Latino population, which lost ground in tech jobs along with African-Americans. "It's the new world -- a world in which whites are not the majority," said Jan English-Lueck, associate dean of the college of social sciences at San Jose State University, who is also co-founder of the Silicon Valley Cultures Project. "Other people are being displaced."
The percentage of Asian tech workers grew from 39 percent in 2000 to just more than 50 percent in 2010 in Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties combined, according to Census Bureau statistics. At the same time, white workers saw their more than 50 percent majority of tech jobs in 2000 fall to nearly 41 percent, according to the numbers released Thursday...
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On Friday, March 30, 2012, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender will present a symposium at Harvard Law School. "Transcending Barriers: Strategies for Change in Transgender Rights" will run from noon to 5:30 PM and feature four panels. For more information on the schedule, click here. Below, JLG will live blog the event.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:42:07pm
Thanks everyone for coming! This was an excellent day. Just to clarify, unless a phrase is in quotes it is the blogger's own interpretation, thoughts, and reflections on the panelists.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:41:09pm
Other strategies for change:
Read "Name Calling" by Elizabeth Glazer.
Also, look to what other law schools are doing and form a coalition for change!
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:39:09pm
Why are trans people so threatening?
Some choose to opt out of gender, and then cannot be fit into the sexual discrimination framework. Also have to contend with the marriage movement. It is hard to get funding for economic and social justice within the trans movement.
Women's colleges: Providing a safe space for women. Do we need to change the conversation that takes place within women's colleges?
Smith College's Dean talking about the leadership opportunity for women. If the value of this education: Produce women leaders in the absence of patriarchy. What does that mean for embracing and inviting transgender people? Why wouldn't we want to admit transwomen and provide them with these same opportunities?
How to make HLS a more welcoming place?
Collaborate with more students, reach out to groups and work together. Reach out to the alumni network – pushing them to work for change. Form alliances with other progressives and advocates.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:22:53pm
I am: Transpeople Speak: Looking for people to make videos and tell stories about the real lives of transpeople.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:20:11pm
Video of a parent of a 15 year old transgender youth. Transgender son came out to parents by writing a letter to his parents. Mother was surprised to learn that he was transgender and immeditate response: I love my kid and I want my kid to be happy, will do whatever it takes to support him. Secondary response: Full of fear for what this might mean for my child and his chances for happiness in life. Main fear – for him to be accepted and supported in the world.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:16:44pm
Being an ally to Transgender people:
Focus on "need to know" versus "want to know." Remember that every transgender person is different.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:13:44pm
From R-to-L: Diane Rosenfeld, Stevie Tran, Elizabeth Glazer, Katherine Kraschel, Gunner Scott
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:11:54pm
Gunner Scott: Mass Transgender Political Coalition – have been around for 10 years – focus exclusively on trans issues. It took 5 years to pass a transgender rights bill. Also tell stories of discrimination in our community. Start a group of parents of trans children. These parents helped make policy changes because policy makers could identify with them.
Wants to note that being trans is a healthy way to be.
Transgender Youth K-12 settings rates of harassment (79%), physical assault (31%) and sexual assault (11%).
Harassment was so severe for transgender and gender non-conforming students caused them to leave school (11%).
In higher education, transgender students are denied access to gender-apporpriate housing (19%), lost campus housing (5%), lost or could not get financial aid or scholarship (11%).
[Statistics from 2009 National Transgender Discrimination Survey]
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:05:41pm
Once admitted, women's colleges would only be in violation of Title IX if they didn't spend the money to make accomodations. This is an untenable position. Title IX is a crutch to deflect a difficult institutional decision.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 5:03:55pm
Katherine Kraschel: Student note on Title IX and women's only colleges. Historically women's only colleges are refusing to admit transgender individuals. Title IX is the rationale behind this policy. Title IX is used perversely to allow for continued discrimination. Colleges argue that if they were to admit transgendered individuals they would have to provide reasonable accommodations, and these are expensive.
Transgendered individuals face high levels of harassment while in school. Title IX should protect gender nonconforming and transgender individuals. Some district courts have found that Title IX protects victims of discrimination due to not conforming to gender stereotypes.
One argument has been raised that the affirmative action provision in Title IX allows single sex education to flourish. Katie argues that women's institutions goals are not compromised by admitting transgendered students, while still excluding the privileged gender (straight cisgender men).
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 4:53:05pm
What about trans people that makes them so different? That should be the reason they experience discrimination? Then we can get a handle on how to fix it.
The types of people who get protected are people who have the ability to prove that they have a medical disorder. This is not about destabalizing gender. We are seeing a big disparity between the purpose of the trans movement (destabilization) and the outcomes of litigation (opposite of destabilization). Gender nonconformists are still wedded to gender – because accept that they are only two genders.
We are couching trans rights in a sex discrimination model. In order to win a sex discrimination claim you have to prove that if you were the other sex you wouldn't have been discriminated against. If you can't prove that, then you haven't proved that the reason for your discrimination is your sex.
The problem is that this doesn't do much for Marlo/Marla.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 4:46:32pm
Professor Glazer: Missing narratives of people who exist in transitional spaces who may not identify in traditional ways. That middle space is exactly what we are supposed to be trying to protect in the transgender rights movement. It is really important to focus on that middle space. Thesis of the paper: We should get away from sex. Think about what the problem is: Why is it so bad that we don't have that middle space.
20 years ago famous symposium (1993): Debate between Mary Ann Case with Janet Halley and Pat Cain. Cain writes history of litigating for LGBT rights: How do we make the right argument to hold that sodomy bans are unconstitutional (pre-Lawrence). Cain – shift from a gay rights movement that was about liberation that has become about being like straight people (homo-kinship model).
What about gay people that was so bad that caused them to be discriminated against? Sodomy is illegal, so if you're gay, you are presumed to have engaged in sodomy. Cain argues that we should ask gay people on the stand about their sexual histories, so it is not about what we presumed you did, but conduct you actually engaged in.
Halley: If we say that people are different on the basis of sodomy, then straight people who also engage in sodomy, will be grouped together with gay people.
Case: If you highlight sodomy, you will seperate out "good" gay people (those who don't engage in sodomy) from the "bad" gay people. This isn't very helpful.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 4:38:18pm
Panel 4: Education and Schools
Moderator: Diane Rosenfeld
Panelists: Stevie Tran & Elizabeth Glazer (Hofstra School of Law); Katherine Kraschel (Harvard Law School); Gunner Scott (Mass Transgender Political Coalition)
Stevie Tran: Professor Glazer and Stevie tried to shed light on a story that is rarely heard. Came from a conversation based around my own transition. When Stevie tried to obtain hormones, was told was too ambivalent about it. Concerned with the medical approach necessary to obtain hormones – knowing what will happen 5 years down the line.
Read the book "The Transgendered Child" which told the story of Marlo. Marlo always preferred feminine forms of expression. He was allowed more feminine forms of clothing and others were starting to perceive him as a girl. Throughout this whole process, he never felt liek a girl. He had a strong male identity but he like to express as a girl. He would correct people when they thought he was a girl, but when faced with recoil and negative reaction he stopped correcting them. At age 7 he started to present as a more stereotypical boy with short hair. He became depressed and suicidal. Marlo became Marla and now says that he always felt like a girl.
Why did Marlo/a have to choose? Why did she have to choose in the first grade to be a particular gender? Where is the transitional space for people who just want to be who they are?
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 4:16:59pm
Earlier this year, USCIS issued guidance for adjudicating LGBTI asylum claims. This is significant because it demonstrates that LGBTI are as serious as other asylum cases. There is some guidance that are transgender specific (language to use and examples of one year exceptions – if someone has recently began to transition).
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 4:14:51pm
Will a transgendered person go to a men's or a women's prison?
Sadly placements are placed based on birth sex or what an officer determines is their birth sex. Often that person will be placed based on a genital search. Then when a person doesn't feel safe, they are placed in 23 hour lockdown. Trans women are placed in general population in male prisons. Victoria has never seen a transwoman placed in general population in a female prison.
There is no one sized fits all solution, which makes it difficult to do "global advocacy work." Some people feel more comfortable in general population, some feel more comfortable in segregation.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 4:06:19pm
Question: Should we focus on individual advocacy or on systemic change?
Bottom line: We need both. Must use multiple strategies to break down this system.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 4:03:44pm
Victoria: There is no way to house transgendered people safely in a detention setting. They should be released, for example with ankle monitoring bracelets. It is so much harder for trans people to win their cases once detained. Once detained, with no counsel, but very hard to proove an asylum case.
Good news and bad news: Most of the cases we bring on behalf of transgendered people we do win. However, this is because they are facing persecution in their country and it is generally not hard to proove the horrific human rights abuses that face trans people around the world.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:57:08pm
Victoria Neilson: Post 9/11 – enormous rise of policing – police and immigration working hand in hand to detain people. THere have been more deportations under the Obama administration than under the Bush administration. Day to day problems in immigration detention: About 15-20% of her asylum practice is for transgendered clients. Yet 75% of detained clients are transgendered because trans people are much more likely to come in contact with the criminal justice system.
The theory of immigration detention is not punitive. The reality however, is that detention centers are run like jails, often as for-profit-prisons. Big problems include access to medical care while in immigration detention. Now, new guidelines that say that if someone was receiving hormones before they were detained, they should continue to get hormones. Even with these moderate standards that are largely unenforceable, there has been backlash (Republican hearings using rhetoric that compares detention to a holiday).
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:52:14pm
VIctoria Neilson: Film about a transwoman immigrant from Mexico, who faced violence in her childhood home and left Mexico for the United States partly to escape the violence. She has been incarcerated and placed in a center for men. She was then transferred to Louisiana, where she was locked up in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. She doesn't speak English and therefore couldn't access any kind of legal support or justice through the courts. She was deported to Mexico in 2006.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:46:46pm
Post 9/11 laws pit deserving immigrants against non-deserving immigrants puts the most vulnerable immigrants at risk: Transgender, poor immigrants of color.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:44:39pm
Pooja Gehi: Post 9/11 legislation have affected the poor trans community. Any time a trans person interacts with the criminal justice system, increased likelihood of deportation. This has created a profiling to deportation cycle. One way to break this cycle is to pay bail at an arraignment hearing. However, even 0 bail may be too high for low income trans people of color.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:38:10pm
Immigration Panel
Moderator: Sabrineh Ardalan
Speakers: Pooja Gehi (Sylvia Rivera Law Project [SRLP]) & Victoria Neilson (New York University Law School)
Pooja Gehi: SRLP – Free legal services to transgendered, gender non-conforming, intersex, intersecting with poverty, low income and especially to people of color. Having a membership base made up of the clients, and operating as a collective: Very important. Making strategic choices around whether to focus on immigration equality, educational advocacy work, etc.
3 areas of focus that intersect:
1. immigrant access program
2. Prison justice program
3. Access to healthcare
Gender identity policed in the community. This has lead to the term coined by clients: "Walking while trans." For example, transwoman holding a purse stopped and searched, upheld as a legitimate search based on "suspicious activity."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:16:50pm
Dreger responds to a great comment about gender policing and social norm reinforcement in non-trans contexts (such as labiaplasty) and connections to trans medicalization and says that should be the responsibility of feminists, not the trans community, which is already a community with a lot of burdens.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:12:01pm
Crincoli says that answer to the recreation sports question is no sex-segregation in sports at all. Bona fide gender identity should be the governing ethic across the board. He would say only the very, very elite (Olympic, for example) levels would have gender policing – everywhere else (including NCAA sports) would not. At the youth level we force segregation often for Title IX implications – instead we should ramp up all participation.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:06:40pm
Dreger says physicians are finally looking at outcomes, which really matters. "Safety is one of the things finally being measured – which is the biggest issue for people who aren't privileged." Passability is all about safety for some populations.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:05:50pm
Crincoli also points out that treatments being "available" is not necessarily universal because we lack universal care. Dreger says she uses the term "medical refugees" (not tourists) for individuals who go outside the United States to get care. Dreger says she does worry about whether changing availability will increase coercion. Palazzolo says one 7th Circuit case by Posner (who Crincoli clerked for) discussing the cost of treatment.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 3:02:16pm
Gunner Scott in the audience argues that we should push for no genital surgery requirements for SSA and other issues. Liz Glazer in the audience points out that there is an equality question and a liberty question embedded. "Sometimes we essentialize who gets in the club." Professor Cohen takes Palazzo's case where they're trying to say surgery shouldn't be recreated. What if someone feels trans but doesn't want hormone therapy, surgery, or even wants to have gender discordant dress?
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:57:11pm
Moderator Professor Cohen asks about interventions and developments thought of progressive becoming coercive – where if you don't do them you won't get access to something. Examples include marriage and insurance, cochlear implants for the death, and surgery for trans-identifying individuals.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:54:39pm
Palazzolo says a lot of it is about connecting with individuals in the field and having them know your name. Engage with events like this in your area.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:53:46pm
Dreger: it's an overblown fear that drives the medical establishment in multiple contexts. "it's a combination of beneficence and homophobia." Some providers have an attitude that no sane person would transition medically. Dreger points out that medicine could look at levels of regret with heart surgery – the regret might be higher. This could inform how we think about regret in other contexts.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:51:58pm
Questions from the audience. Journal member Evelyn asks about the connection between narratives of medical regret in the trans community and narrative of regret related to abortion. Symposium co-chair Joanne asks Kyle how you can get access to these great cases while working at firm.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:48:04pm
Palazzolo discusses some of the cases he's worked on. One in Illinois involves a custody dispute where a trans parent who hadn't had gender surgery. The court decided that without surgery, the marriage was actually a same-sex marriage, and thus the custody dispute was null. Palazzolo and Jenner & Block brought a suit with the ACLU. A new law in the state instead of just requiring genital surgery specified which surgeries. They got new birth certificates for all the plaintiffs, and a state court judge let the case proceed as a class action.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:43:12pm
Last we have Kyle Palazzolo of Jenner & Block, one of our sponsors today. Kyle says that even from a firm you can still engage with LGBT communities.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:42:34pm
When we tell an essentialist story of who is what we limit approaches and options.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:41:27pm
Dreger reiterates her discomfort with immutable characteristics. In the history of medicine the narrative requirement has been really strict and impacts access to care. Dreger says Crincoli's discussion of recreational sports is important. In Canada, gender segregation in childhood sports is not present – "there are other models".
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:38:59pm
The real focus should be: is the patient well? When people are allowed to choose interventions for themselves, they are. Dreger says that the trans population is studied in terms of regret and held to an incredibly high standard of non-regret regarding surgery and hormone intervention.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:36:34pm
Another approach is called the accommodation approach, where you identify a transgender child early and intervene early (pre-puberty) with hormones. Dreger says this looks progressive but is actually rather conservative – it might take kids who are queer and send them down a channel to "smash them into the male-female system."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:33:36pm
Dreger specializes in treatment of children. She is very concerned with the treatment of children who are sex atypical and gender atypical. "It's a history of coercion, frankly – of requiring those children and adults to adhere to those concepts of what it means to be a man or woman."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:32:15pm
Some biological distinctions are widely accepted (such as age or human/non-human). However, "adherence to anatomy is getting old-fashioned" and maybe we're approaching a new question: "What does democracy look like after anatomy?"
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:29:40pm
Dreger discusses the founding era in America and analogies to anatomy – there were appeals to an anatomical commonality ("all men are created equal") and 20th-century civil rights movements pushed a similar approach.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:27:43pm
Alice Dreger, Professor of Clinical Ethics at Northwestern University's school of medicine. She's a historian of anatomy and works in history of science.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:26:01pm
What can we do? What role do attorneys and advocates have? Understand that other actors don't speak the language we do – we should reach out to make sure there's communication between law and medicine to make sure we're pushing for inclusion. It's common for us to punt to medical experts, and for them to punt to us on legal questions – it's important we educate ourselves to speak with others.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:24:03pm
Being an athlete is part of your identity – having access to sport is an important part of a person's life. In marriage, there's a relational aspect to identity. Sport and marriage/relationships can be viewed as health care – access makes people better off.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:21:24pm
Discussing the impact of medical providers. In elite performance sport we see competition-oriented treatment. In recreational sport, however, you have varied access to care or treatment, and it is usually uninvolved with athletic participation. The medical community has a gatekeeper role for the trans community, and often they view family support as key to opening that gate.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:19:16pm
Crincoli analogizes to family law and marriage – you see a similarly non-standardized system, reactive approach (waiting for a problem to happen), no clear choice of language and terminology (the opposite of the 'boiler plate' problem we see in recreational sports), and implementation by a decentralized system.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:17:42pm
Crincoli says we see a lot of "cut and paste" where the first actor creating language and terminology in a policy gets copied. Those first actors are often "experts" discussing the high-level elite. Then, in terms of implementation, you have a diffuse array of actors implementing the policies (such as volunteer coaches).
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:16:09pm
Crincoli will focus on the impact of documentation on recreational sports (versus elite performance sports, which gets more of the media attention). How do policies get set in sports. There's no "lex sportiva" governing sports – no one system. At the same time there's a reactive vs. prospective approach to this – often we wait until someone is excluded to react.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:13:46pm
Shawn Crincoli, Professor at Touro College Fuchsberg Law Center, is up first to discuss law and medicine. He begins with looking at passports and gender reassignment on official government documents. There is a variety of treatment in this area, and language doesn't specify what should happen. Language used by lawyers and physicians and "It's the luck of the draw" regarding who you get to see. Of course, this favors sophisticated clients.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:11:38pm
Thanks for live blogging the first panel Amy (incoming co-EIC for Volume 36) – this is Kristi back again to blog our second panel, "Marriage and Health," moderated by our own faculty advisor Professor I. Glenn Cohen.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 2:02:30pm
Q: raises concerns essentialist approach and narrative of sex or sexual orientation as an immutable characteristic. Ex: changing sex on birth certification — changing it might indiciate that there is something "wrong" with someone.
A: Jennifer Levi: courts already be moving away from requiring immutable characteristics; can still be deep and central to identity without being immutable. Activists face difficult question: "who to help first, how to help most marginalized members of community?"
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:57:42pm
Q: raises example of trans man not being allowed to answer phones on DV hotline. "It all goes back to the bathroom." Losing the voices of survivors of violence; keeping these voices out of community. But is restorative justice feasible; does it really hold people accountable?
Quince Hopkins: restorative justice may protect victims better than court process and enable them to speak; may ensure that DV is not a secret. Feels "hopeful, but with some caution" toward move toward RJ.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:54:25pm
Answer from Quince Hopkins: few people would take on social stigma of being transgendered by merely pretending to be so.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:52:12pm
Question from audience: how to respond to claim that "gender identity" category will be abused, ie: by the non-trans guy who wants to hang out in women's bathrooms?
Jennifer Levi: court's don't step into complex question of what someone's claimed religious beliefs and obligations are. In education and employment settings, it's not so difficult to assess the legitimacy of one's asserted identity — people have day-to-day contact with the person making such claim. And most employers want to avoid litigation.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:46:38pm
Constitutional law so far silent on what freedom of expression means within the context of gender expression — but possibilities in this realm. We are just beginning a legal revolution.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:45:47pm
When we ask "should transgender people be included in antidiscrimination laws," what broader issues are we overlooking?
Ex: health care. Client "Beth" (pseudnym). Even though state has robust antidiscrimination law, Beth covered by ERISA and insurance that doesn't pay for sex reassignment. Developed breasts and needed mammogram; insurance refused to cover cost because claim related to change of sex and she was in insurer's system as "male." What if her mammogram had been positive: could insurance company claim that cancer was related to change in sex?
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:41:15pm
El'Jai's case: filed suit under NJ antidiscrim. law. Employer claimed BFOQ defense. TLDEF didn't dispute this claim.
If El'Jai can be terminated based on BFOQ defense, what does the NJ law accomplish? Is an entire class of jobs going to be unavailable to any trans person, and to an individual with few job opportunities in general?
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:38:27pm
Michael Silverman (Trans Legal Defense & Educ. Fund): Starts off with a quote: "Nothing in life is true but the rent."
Wants to focus on a few cases to get to practical effects on law and legal chance on individiudal:
El'Jai Devoreau: current client. Is African-American, poor, transexual. Lives in NJ, which includes gender identity/expression in antidiscrimination law. Applied for work at drug treatment center, which included watching men urinate into specimen jar. After he showed up for training, managers learned of his trans status; fired him for not meeting qualifications of job.
Case raises question: how much good can these anti-discrimination laws do? What happens once the words are on paper, and when an agency is left to interpret the language?
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:33:22pm
Community conferencing: all the "stakeholders" in the community broad in to address the problems. Empowering for victims, gives voice and control, reaches offender in more meaningful way than criminal penalties. More broadly: builds community bonds.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:31:24pm
Restorative justice as an answer? Collectively identifiying and responding to harms. Within tight-knit communities (ex: indigeonous and first nations), restorative justice has worked well — might extend to trans community.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:29:43pm
3. Violence against transgender people: relationship and acquaintance violence, including members of LGBTQI community committing violence against each other. Most violence against trans people is relationship violence, and often is violence of sexual character. Massive underreporting, among many other law enforcement problems. Fear of law enforcement and widespread discrimination within law enforcement.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:27:26pm
2. "Unreadable bodies confuse the 'orthodox.'" Confusion caused by unreadable bodies leads to exclusion: MI women's music festival. Ex: Same-sex sports. Jennifer Miller: excluded from lesbian bars because she has a beard. ENDA and question of whether to include transgender as protected category.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:24:25pm
1. Laqueur: gender pre-defines sex. Anatomical studies show that in 1500s and 1600s, there was conception of "one" human body, not a male/female binary. One body has variations along a "heat axis." Female bodies seen as upside-down or inside-out male bodies (vaginal canal = inverted penis). [Shows early anatomic drawings.] Where people fall along heat axis is socially and politically determined: those who have power aligned with male sex.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:20:17pm
C. Quince Hopkins (Florida Coastal School of Law): Focusing on "hidden violence." Data shows most of the violence against LGBTQ persons occurs within their own homes/families.
Theorizing from T. Laqueur and J. Butler.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:18:27pm
Addresses problems in law and legal frameworks:
Highlights problems with statutory language. For example, definition of sexual orientation in MA: homosexuality, heterosexuality, and bisexuality, but excludes sexual attraction to children. (Message of this?)
IMportance of public statements: Cynthia Nixon ("I choose to be a lesbian") — does law need to recognize sexuality as an "immutable characteristic; Chas Bono's desire to have "genital surgery." Jennifer: We can't pay too much attention to this — we are not a monolithic community, but need to form a strong community across the identities that we share (and those we don't share).
"Can't let legal frameworks determine of definitions of who we are."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:11:25pm
Passage of anti-discrimination law doesn't eradicate discrimination, but does signal growth of a movement and creation of a community — making it possible to say "I am a transgendered person."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:10:45pm
MA law defines "gender identity" as "a person's gender-related identity, appearance, or behavior, whether or not [it] is different from that traditionally associated with the person's psyiology or assigned sex at birth."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:09:06pm
Jennifer Levi (GLAD): Reponding to a selection from Prof. Spade's book: "we must stop understanding that what the law says is true." She would combine Spade's broader advocacy efforts with working within the law – are not in diametric opposition – can actually work together. Can work to ensure inclusion within nondiscrimination laws while also questioning the language they use to define people and phenomena. Notes that federal gov't (country's largest employer), and 16 states plus DC defines "sex," "gender," and "gender identity/expression" — evidence of progress. But these definitions are problematic.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 1:02:51pm
Next panel: "Evolution of Laws" with C. Quince Hopkins, Jennifer Levi, Michael Silverman, Libby Adler.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:59:11pm
Second question concerns prison reform. Prison abolitionists, Spade says, look to only system-wide reforms, and do the rest as individual advocacy to get trans people and all people out of prison. Spade recommends Angela Davis's "Are Prisons Obsolete?" – you can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Are-Prisons-Obsolete-Angela-Davis/dp/1583225811
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:51:32pm
We need to also re-think the time frame of social justice projects – it's not an eighteen-month (ie funding cycle) change we're looking for. The funding structure also forces everyone to say any effort is a win, not letting us really think about severe losses and learn from them.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:49:10pm
Now we move to Q&A. First question: wondering about funding for the public sector and visions for change there. Spade recommends the book "The Revolution will not be Funded" (you can find more about it here http://www.southendpress.org/2006/items/87662) which critiques funding streams and how they shape and shift what organizations can do. It makes the focus on what's fund-able.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:47:13pm
Broader social justice politics, not equality politics is the goal. "Law reform is not the goal – we're not going to meet our needs by passing a law."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:46:19pm
Spade isn't arguing against law reform or legal efforts – these efforts involve legislative tactics. The question is whether we can shift the efforts against "equality law" (window dressing).
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:45:31pm
Change must come from masses of people coordinating with each other. Work should be focused on building horizontal, community-driven (not funder-driven) communities, not with getting the right op-ed in the The New York Times. We should look for ways that communities are driven into harmful systems. Efforts include advocacy against building new prisons. "We also need to build the systems we want – building alternatives." How can we be safe? How do we meet each other's needs? We should look at community responses to violence which are not tied to police and prison.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:42:34pm
When we think about legal reform, "we need to ask: who are we leaving out? Will this provide actual relief or is it just window dressing to make the state look better? Will it build or expand harmful systems?"
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:41:35pm
Spade raises interesting questions for the legal services model. Now, in the mainstream legal services model, we have extremely privileged people decide which poor people should get legal support. It's very individualized.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:39:38pm
What does it look like on the ground? Vulnerable people should be first – start with people in immigration facilities, who are homeless, who are in the criminal punishment system experience rape and violence. "It's actually the reverse of what the gay and lesbian rights groups have done, which is demand access for those closest to inclusion." Now we know that trickle down idea doesn't work.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:38:04pm
Anti-immigration enforcement, demand for wealth equality and an end to poverty, and the dismantling of the criminal punishment system are some of the demands we're talking about here. "These are demands that are not winnable in American law – it's established and based in slavery, genocide and colonization, and that's what it continues to preserve, protect and promote."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:35:23pm
Spade's book seeks to provide critical trans politics. There are two tracks here. The first focuses on marriage, military, anti-discrimination, and hate crime laws. Another path, which is strong and robust but without the same corporate funding and support has a different framework. It says, "let's help people survive and dismantle the systems that harm us and build alternatives" instead of "asking the systems to claim us as constituents."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:33:13pm
These laws are often embraced by those with a vested interest in the status quo.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:32:16pm
Hate crime laws are similarly flawed – they mostly enhance penalties and surveillance systems, with the idea that prisons and police officers will protect the rights of marginalized people. Spade argues that these laws are from the perpetrator's perspective.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:30:37pm
The story that changing law will change our lives is told to all marginalized communities. Trans communities are told to follow the path of gay and lesbian rights – changing law will change people's lives. Spade's book asks if changing laws will actually meaningfully affect the lives of those facing assault, homelessness, and other issues. Yet anti-discrimination law hasn't eliminated racism. Spade argues that anti-discrimination law misunderstands how racism works – "it misses the reality that most of this racialized issues happen on the population level" – for example, the entire way that schools are funded, environmental harm is focused on certain neighborhoods.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:26:08pm
According to this narrative, supposedly there law is race-neutral, gender-neutral, and disability-neutral. "That entire story that U.S. is neutral can't say what's deep and underlying – that it's based on genocide of indigenous people." In an apparently post-civil rights era, "we're told that the government is our protector through the legal system."
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:23:51pm
Systems of criminalization are organized to enforce racialized gender norms – "what it is to comply in these systems is to comply with gender norms," often enforced by violence. This is particularly prominent in the criminal punishment system. "The story in the US is if you face marginlization is: you should seek to change the law. That's a huge narrative in the U.S." Spade argues that this is a particularly anti-black narrative when the narrative says racism is over now that equality is declared by law.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:21:44pm
When SRLP meets clients, often they've been denied legal services elsewhere – services that are nominally available to low-income people are not meaningfully accessible to trans and gender non-conforming individuals, either by lawyer uncomfortability or other factors.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:18:56pm
Dean founded Sylvia Rivera Law Project, which serves low-income trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming people of color. To learn more about it, you can click here: http://srlp.org/
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:18:08pm
Ryan Blodgett, my co-EIC, introduces Professor Spade, who just published a book called Normal Life (reviewed on JLG's website by Alex St. Pierre).
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:09:34pm
This is Kristi Jobson, the co-editor-in-chief of Volume 35 of the Journal of Law & Gender. I will be live blogging our keynote by Dean Spade just as soon as everyone is settled and having lunch.
Fri, March 30, 2012 - 12:08:49pm
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Weve been assured by the contractors. They understand the parameters clearly, I think, of what they need to do, Mr. Vigliotti said.
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Oct. 11th, 1943 — A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.
When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.
As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage and failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?
Harrowing and beautifully written, Elizabeth Wein creates a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other. Code Name Verity is an outstanding novel that will stick with you long after the last page.
"Wein (The Empty Kingdom) serves up a riveting and often brutal tale of WWII action and espionage with a powerful friendship at its core. Captured Scottish spy Queenie has agreed to tell her tale — and reveal any confidential information she knows — in exchange for relief from being tortured by Nazis. Her story, which alternates between her early friendship with a pilot named Maddie and her recent sufferings in prison, works both as a story of cross-class friendship (from an upper-crust family, Queenie realizes that she would likely never have met Maddie under other circumstances) and as a harrowing spy story (Queenie's captor, von Loewe, is humanized without losing his menace). Queenie's deliberately rambling and unreliable narration keeps the story engaging, and there are enough action sequences and well-delivered twists (including a gut-wrenching climax and late revelations that will have readers returning to reread the first half of the book) to please readers of all stripes. Wein balances the horrors of war against genuine heroics, delivering a well-researched and expertly crafted adventure. Ages 14 — up. Agent: Ginger Clark, Curtis Brown." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
"This heart-in-your-mouth adventure has it all: a complex plot, a vivid sense of place and time, and resonant themes of friendship and courage. Practical Maddie and mischievous Julie are brought to life through their vibrant narrative voices and intriguing backstories....In this powerful work of historical fiction, Julie and Maddie need never fear 'flying alone'; the reader will soar with them until the final page." The Washington Post
"Young people will enjoy this Second World War spy story, no doubt, but its appeal is much wider. It's a beautiful thriller about friendship, courage and daring at a desperate time." The StarPhoenix
"Moving back in time, rather than forward, Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein is an original, cleverly written Second World War story about spies, torture, women pilots, friendship and the horror of war." The Independent
"A carefully researched, precisely written tour de force; unforgettable and wrenching." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"[Code Name Verity] is outstanding in all its features — its warm, ebullient characterization; its engagement with historical facts; its ingenious plot and dramatic suspense; and its intelligent, vivid writing." The Horn Book (starred review)
"A fiendishly plotted mind game of a novel." The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Elizabeth Wein has lived in Scotland for over ten years and wrote nearly all her novels there. Her first five books for young adults are set in Arthurian Britain and sixth century Ethiopia. The most recent of these form the sequence The Mark of Solomon, published in two parts as The Lion Hunter (2007) and The Empty Kingdom (2008). The Lion Hunter was short-listed for the Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2008. Elizabeth also writes short stories.
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The series follows the adventures of the main protagonist Aang and his friends, who must save the world by defeating the Fire Lord and ending the destructive war with the Fire Nation. The show first aired on February 21, 2005 and the series concluded with a widely-lauded two-hour television movie on July 19, 2008. The show is now available on DVD, the iTunes Store, and the Xbox Live Marketplace, as well as its home on Nickelodeon.
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Computer Inventory
Ok, so I am not sure where to start. I have inherited this system and I am hacking away at figuring it out.
When the previous admins installed Altiris, they imported everything in as a CSV. So everything shows up as a computer.
Everything. All Asset Items. Everything. If I go to Mangage, Computers, I see very generic things like "apple iPad3" and "acer 21in monitor"
This makes me sad. From what I understand, there is no easy way to change this short of some custom SQL hacking, which I do not have the chops for. (at least not at this moment)
All I really want to do right now, is have Alteris Look at my Active Directory (a specified OU) and compare a list of machines in that OU, to its massive computer list.
I want to know what machines are active, and which machines in AD are missing Altiris clients.
What is the best way to get this info? Think simple. I'd love to solve all my issues inthe world, but baby steps first please.
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Actually, I just noticed that if I create a filter based on that OU, it list the IS Managed is set to 0 or 1. So this is a good step. Next to se if I can do some more work on with this list. I am open to any ideas that anyone may have...
I'd like to find a way to export this filter to a Text or CSV file.
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I don't wear dresses much as I'm retired, however I have been watching this dress for a while and when it went on sale I decided to try it. Glad I did, as it is a very nice go to dress. Usually I wear a small but decided to try the medium as it was fitted around the hips.Although it is roomy around the chest it still looks good.The colours work nicely with my salt and pepper hair. I think it is a good buy at the sale price.
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Posted Jan 06, 2011 | Atlanta, GA
With the renewed emphasis on global engagement articulated in Georgia Tech's new strategic plan, Institute leadership has formed an advisory group that will provide additional focus in forging future international partnerships.
Earlier this month, Provost Rafael Bras announced the creation of the International Advisory Group, a faculty committee that will serve to support and advise both the provost and the vice provost on issues related to Georgia Tech's strategy for global engagement.
"In Tech's strategic plan, a stated goal is the expansion of our global footprint and influence," said Steve McLaughlin, vice provost for International Initiatives and chair of the advisory group. "Not only will this foster research collaborations and promote economic development both at home and abroad, but also ensure Georgia Tech graduates good global citizens who are prepared to assume leadership positions with multinational institutions."
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Ingredients4 Tbs butter or margarine
3 eggs
1 cup flour
1 cup milk
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 Tbs chopped onion
1 lb cheddar cheese
2 pkg frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
PreparationPreheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt butter in 9x13" pan. Lightly beat eggs in large bowl. Add flour, milk, salt and baking powder. Mix well. Add spinach and onion. Mix well. Spoon into baking pan and level off. Top with additional cheese and seasoned salt if desired.
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Although Labour Day weekend is in the past, I still haven't been able to shake myself completely out of vacation mode. Thus, I've found myself rifling through old images of past getaway trips, wistfully dreaming of the next break I can rustle together.
Of all the photos I've dug up recently, the ones I took a few years ago in Venice bring back the sweetest memories. You can't really take a bad photo in such a mysteriously beautiful place, but the shots I got still pale in comparison to Canaletto's vedute style paintings of the old waterways.
That top image?
It's exactly how the canals of Venice look in my mind. Murky and bottle-green, with glinting bits of jewel-like blues being reflected in the water from the clear skies above. And those floating buildings - just magical...
If I were to go back, right now, this is how I'd have to look for an afternoon stroll along the waterways. The city makes one feel as if there must be some touch of ornate adornment about one's person; the Sara Battaglia cage purse and those Marni earrings could do the trick.
As for everything else? I figured an easy black dress would be perfect, along with a little touch of something striped. Just for the kitschy reference to those black-and-white tees worn by the occasional gondola man...
Shoes - Reiss; Earrings - Marni; Dress - T by Alexander Wang; Sunglasses - The Row; Purse - Sara Battaglia; Lipstick - MAC (Russian Red); Camera - Leica; Travel Guide - Luxe Venice
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