By Bernard E. Harcourt January 30, 2018. 5:25pm CST. I am sitting on a plane headed to Birmingham, Alabama, for a hearing tomorrow in federal court—in the Hugo L. Black Federal Courthouse in historic downtown Birmingham—on Doyle Hamm’s execution, scheduled… Continue Reading
By Zethu Matebeni Violence towards queer bodies Zanele Muholi’s short video project for Puma’s Films4peace 2013, https://vimeo.com/73943643, was the starting point for this essay. I was intrigued by the women’s cry in the video as well as the final… Continue Reading
By Katherine Franke On June 12, 1967, Chief Justice Earl Warren announced for a unanimous Supreme Court that Virginia’s statute criminalizing marriage between a white person and a colored person violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause not only because… Continue Reading
By Jack Halberstam Now is an excellent time to talk about sex, trouble and the body. Not a day goes by in the contemporary US press without a new account of sexual assault, unwanted sexual contact, the sexual manipulation of… Continue Reading