Articles in Gender & Sexuality tagged with Law and Justice

Sonali Chakravarti

Jurors Can Protect Abortion Access

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

Rachel Rebouché

How the Federal Government Can Fight Abortion Bans

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Why Does the State Care About Your Gender?

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people. A new book considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.

Boston Review

Reproductive Justice After Roe

As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.

Rachel Rebouché

Roe Is as Good as Dead. It Was Never Enough Anyway.

It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.

Mary Bernstein

Are the Courts the Way to Queer Rights?

In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.

Emma Lower, Mary Kathryn Nagle

What Will It Take to End Violence Against Native Women?

The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is an important step, but activist Mary Kathryn Nagle argues that only full restoration of Indigenous sovereignty will stop the epidemic.

Judith Levine

Father Knows Best

“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.

Joseph J. Fischel

Is There a Constitutional Right to Sex Work?

The Supreme Court recognizes the right of consenting adults to an erotic life free of state control. Given that, it shouldn't matter whether sex is your job.

Sara Matthiesen

Abortion Is Not a “Choice” Without Racial Justice

After Roe v. Wade, Angela Davis wrote about how the reproductive rights movement was failing women of color. As Roe is dismantled, her diagnosis is more crucial than ever.

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