[Hamp-law] A. Ritchie speaks on LGBQT issues at CLPP conference this weekend!

[Flavio Risech]

*Andrea J. Ritchie* will be speaking at the upcoming CLPP conference 
 From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for 
Reproductive Freedom. Ritchie is a staff attorney with the Sex Workers 
Project at the Urban Justice Center in New York City. She comes to this 
position as a civil rights attorney who has engaged in extensive 
research, writing, speaking and advocacy on physical and sexual violence 
by law enforcement agents against women and lesbian, gay, bisexual and 
transgender (LGBT) people in the US and Canada over the past decade. She 
has worked with INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and is the 
coauthor of /Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in 
the United States/ (Beacon Press). /Queer (In)Justice/ is a searing 
examination of queer experiences as "suspects," defendants, prisoners 
and survivors of crime. This new book illuminates the many ways queer 
lives are criminalized, policed, and punished, demonstrating that 
policing of sex and gender is both integral to racial profiling and 
race-based policing and an independent function of law enforcement. 
Ritchie is also co-counsel in Doe v. Jindal, the Center for 
Constitutional Right's constitutional challenge to Louisiana's 206 
year-old Crime Against Nature statute, which carries unjustifiably harsh 
penalties, such as mandatory sex offender registration, and 
disproportionately affects low-income African American women and LGBT 
people. For more information and to register for the CLPP conference, 
please visit our website: clpp.hampshire.edu

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Flavio Risech
Associate Professor of Law
School of Critical Social Inquiry
Hampshire College
Amherst MA 01002
413.559.5504 voice
413.559.5620 fax
frisech at hampshire.edu

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