BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 RDATE:20120311T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 RDATE:20121104T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120314T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120314T131500 LOCATION:McCarty Classroom Complex - Room 2 GEO:45.4524021595747;-122.677382766518 SUMMARY:Andrea Ritchie DESCRIPTION:The National Lawyers Guild\, OUTlaw\, the Black Law Students' Association\, and Women's Law Caucus present Queer (In)justice: The Crim inalization of LGBT People in the United States. Join us in Room 2 on Ma rch 14 at 12:15 pm\, where NYC police misconduct attorney Andrea Ritchie will speak about the book she co-authored\, Queer (In)justice: The Crimin alization of LGBT People in the United States. The book is "a groundbrea king work that turns a "queer eye" on the criminal legal system. \;Dr awing on years of research\, activism\, and legal advocacy\, \;Queer (In)Justice \;is a searing examination of the queer experience—as c riminal defendants\, prisoners\, and survivors of violent crimes. The aut hors unpack queer criminal archetypes– \;like "gleeful gay killers\ ," "lethal lesbians\," and "disease spreaders"– \;to illustrate the punishment of queer expression\, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. And tracing stories from the judicial bench to the streets and behind prison bars\, the authors prove that the policing of sex and gend er both bolsters and reinforces racial and gender inequalities." Andrea Ritchie is a police misconduct attorney and organizer who has engaged in extensive research\, writing\, speaking\, litigation\, organizing\, and a dvocacy on profiling\, policing\, and physical and sexual violence by law enforcement agents against women\, girls\, and LGBT people of color in t he US and Canada over the past two decades. \; \;Lunch Served. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The National Lawyers Guild\, OUTlaw\, t
he Black Law Students' Association\, and Women's Law Caucus present
Join us in Room 2 on March 14 at 12:15 pm \, where NYC police misconduct attorney Andrea Ritchie will speak about t he book she co-authored\, Queer (In)justice: The Criminalization of L GBT People in the United States.
The book is "a groundbreaki ng work that turns a "queer eye" on the criminal legal system. \;Draw ing on years of research\, activism\, and legal advocacy\, \;Quee r (In)Justice \;is a searing examination of the queer experience —as criminal defendants\, prisoners\, and survivors of violent crimes. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes– \;like "gleeful gay k illers\," "lethal lesbians\," and "disease spreaders"– \;to illustr ate the punishment of queer expression\, regardless of whether a crime wa s ever committed. And tracing stories from the judicial bench to the stre ets and behind prison bars\, the authors prove that the policing of sex a nd gender both bolsters and reinforces racial and gender inequalities." p>
Andrea Ritchie is a police misconduct attorney and organizer who h as engaged in extensive research\, writing\, speaking\, litigation\, orga nizing\, and advocacy on profiling\, policing\, and physical and sexual v iolence by law enforcement agents against women\, girls\, and LGBT people of color in the US and Canada over the past two decades. \; \;< /p>
Lunch Served.