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Series
International refugee law volume Volume 3
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
38) Pigs in heaven
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey,...
Author
Publisher
South End Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Wait-what's wrong with rights? Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and "equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations--agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the state and its legal, policing, and social services apparatus--even its policies...