Event Title
Panel 3: Unexpected Coalitions: Dream Act/Marriage Equality/Domestic Worker Legislation
Location
Krongard Room
Start Date
29-3-2013 1:30 PM
End Date
29-3-2013 3:00 PM
Description
The panel on unexpected coalitions taps the power generated at the switch points where the academy, the legislature, and activism intersect, with the goal of putting that energy to good use. In New York and California, an unexpected coalition of law students and activists played a central role in fighting for, and in the case of New York, enacting domestic worker protections. By transcending identity politics, those coalitions attract students who’ve studied queer theory and are eager to embrace social justice projects focused on the intersections of race, sex, sexuality, class, and immigration status. The conference began with a discussion of domestic worker protections, Thursday evening’s keynote speech by Andrea Mercado of Mujeres Unidas y Activas, and this final substantive panel seeks to explore how unexpected coalitions that criss-cross race, religion, class, gender, and immigration status can and have led to successful reforms like domestic worker protections, marriage equality, and the Dream Act. Falling toward the end of the conference, we hope that its insights, on top of material in the earlier panels, will spark future campaigns and reforms
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Panel 3: Unexpected Coalitions: Dream Act/Marriage Equality/Domestic Worker Legislation
Krongard Room
The panel on unexpected coalitions taps the power generated at the switch points where the academy, the legislature, and activism intersect, with the goal of putting that energy to good use. In New York and California, an unexpected coalition of law students and activists played a central role in fighting for, and in the case of New York, enacting domestic worker protections. By transcending identity politics, those coalitions attract students who’ve studied queer theory and are eager to embrace social justice projects focused on the intersections of race, sex, sexuality, class, and immigration status. The conference began with a discussion of domestic worker protections, Thursday evening’s keynote speech by Andrea Mercado of Mujeres Unidas y Activas, and this final substantive panel seeks to explore how unexpected coalitions that criss-cross race, religion, class, gender, and immigration status can and have led to successful reforms like domestic worker protections, marriage equality, and the Dream Act. Falling toward the end of the conference, we hope that its insights, on top of material in the earlier panels, will spark future campaigns and reforms
Comments
Moderated by Marley Weiss, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.