“Within the next couple of years, we’re going to have a million sex offenders, people found guilty or who plead guilty. That’s an enormous population we’re going to isolate from mainstream society.”
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The show can’t conceive of the fact that the biggest hurdle for most of the women in prison with Chapman is not that they made ‘bad choices,’ but that their future choices are foreclosed by prison.
Literary icon and celebrity Alice Walker was in Chicago on July 1 to promote two new books. She appeared as part of the summer program at Women and Children First (WCF) bookstore. Though sponsored by the bookstore, the event was held at the First Free Church, 5525 N. Ashland. The venue had been changed from the Swedish Museum in order to accommodate larger crowds.
Since 2008, the Chicago Dyke March Collective (CDMC) has held its annual march in locations outside the city’s traditional Andersonville neighborhood. The CDMC has also, in recent years, sought to engage communities by organizing forums on topics relevant to the area it marches in.
A Sebastian, Fla., teenager is being charged with a crime that could potentially place her on the state’s sex offender registry. At the same time, some publicly disseminated statements about her case appear to be inaccurate.
Luzma Umpierre-Herrera, a leading and out lesbian Puerto Rican poet and critic, was in Chicago this past week to present on her work.
“I realized that in some ways the closing of the buildings doesn’t change all that much, because as we close more buildings, we put more people in ankle bracelets, under house arrest, or make their probation longer.”
In the push to redefine themselves as “undocumented,” the undocuqueers have essentially used the “illegals” as their bargaining chips.
Edwards would have been metaphorically and literally run out of Chicago if he had been anything but a white, gay man.
To put it bluntly: both men would rather see women die than have abortions because they wanted to.
