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** Welcome to Elana Redfield, our new Federal Policy Director
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Elana comes to the Williams Institute from the New York City Department of Social Services, where she worked to improve safety-net services and homelessness interventions for LGBTQI communities. Before this, Elana was a Staff Attorney for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, where she helped meet the survival needs and promote self-determination among low-income transgender people and transgender people of color.

ANNUAL UPDATE CONFERENCE
APRIL 4, 2022
12:15 – 1:15 PM PT


** LGBTQI+ Migrants: The Intersection of Race and SOGI
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The first day of our Annual Update Conference features a discussion on data needs and current challenges facing LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers. fjfkdjlakfjdslakfjdalks;fjakldsfjlksad
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APRIL 5, 2022
12 – 1 PM PT


** LGBTQ+ Indigenous People: Disparities and Data Justice
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Day two of the conference features a discussion of the health and economic well-being of American Indian/Alaska Native LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. and its impact on law and policy.
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APRIL 6, 2022
12 – 1 PM PT


** Branches of the Same Vine: LGBTQ Rights, Reproductive Rights, and Critical Race Theory
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The final day of our conference examines how research can reveal connections between current policy initiatives and provide responses to their core arguments.
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** Congratulations to the 2021 Dukeminier Awards Winners
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Recognizing the best sexual orientation and gender identity legal scholarship released during the 2019-2020 academic year.
THE MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM PRIZE
Marie-Amélie George

Associate Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law

Framing Trans Rights ([link removed]) , 114 Nw. U. L. Rev. 555 (2019)


In the wake of marriage equality, opponents of LGBT rights refocused their attention, making transgender rights their main target. Although advocates have largely succeeded in their efforts to preserve LGBT rights, their messaging may undermine the movement’s broader litigation strategy and subject nonbinary people to greater discrimination and persecution. This article analyzes the motivations behind social movements’ framing decisions to argue for an alternative approach to trans rights advocacy.
THE STU WALTER PRIZE
Susan Hazeldean

Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Privacy as Pretext ([link removed]) , 104 Cornell L. Rev. 1719 (2019)

This article uses legal privacy theory to show that allowing transgender people into gendered facilities does not undermine privacy in any legally cognizable sense. Indeed, examining the issue through these privacy theories shows that excluded transgender people are the ones whose privacy is violated. Opponents’ privacy claims are just a pretext to justify rolling back anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people and also reify negative stereotypes about men and women, undermining sex equality.
THE M.V. BADGETT PRIZE
Courtney Megan Cahill
Donald Hinkle Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law

The New Maternity ([link removed]) , 133 Harv. L. Rev. 2221(2020)

Never as uncomplicated as the Supreme Court has assumed, maternity has become considerably more complex in light of the new forms of kinship enabled by alternative reproduction and its legal accommodation. This article argues that progressive advances surrounding the new maternity in state family law ought to unsettle regressive tendencies surrounding constitutional maternity. The consolidation of the new maternity in constitutional law could have meaningful consequences both within and beyond the law of parenthood.
THE EZEKIEL WEBBER PRIZE
Jeremiah A. Ho

Associate Professor of Law, University of Massachusetts School of Law

Queer Sacrifice in Masterpiece Cakeshop ([link removed]) , 31 Yale J.L. & Feminism 249 (2020)

When assimilated same-sex couples sought marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, their respectable personas facilitated the alignment between their interest to marry and the Court’s interest in affirming the primacy of marriage. This article explores how the failure of such interest convergence in Masterpiece extends Derrick Bell’s thesis on involuntary racial sacrifice and fortuity into the LGBTQ context—arguing that Masterpiece is essentially an example of queer sacrifice.
THE JEFFREY S. HABER PRIZE FOR STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP
Phillip H.C. Wilkinson
Stanford Law School, Class of 2021
The Legal Implications of Sexual Orientation-Detecting Facial Recognition Technology ([link removed]) , 20 Dukeminier Awards J. 301 (2021)

This note addresses the legal issues that facial recognition artificial intelligence technology presents to the LGBTQ community. The note highlights relevant legal issues raised by this technology for LGBTQ people and analyzes case law, statutes, and administrative rulings that could become relevant in deciding challenges to the use of this technology brought by LGBTQ people.
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