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• Title: Keynote Address (Symposium)
• Author : Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 282 KB

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Reflecting on the title of this symposium, I was thinking about the metaphor of "the frontier" and what it means to place our conversations about gender and US law in the context of US law as a project of settler-colonialism. In particular, the title of this symposium made me think about how the theorization and practice of resistance to coercive gender norms is often invested in narratives of citizenship and belonging that undergird colonialism and white supremacy. How does an understanding of genocide and slavery as the conditions of the creation of the US nation-state and US law impact our analysis of the relationship between law and gender? (1) The title of this symposium evokes the most basic questions that legal scholars and activists must ask ourselves as we seek to transform systems that we understand as harmful or violent. What is the law? What is violence? Are racialized-gendered distributions of harm and violence incidental to American law and the US nation-state or co-constitutive with it? One theme that has been touched on by today's discussions is the concern over cooptation and how resistance struggles can be co-opted into narratives of citizenship and belonging in law that actually reinforce conditions of subjection. Some of the most interesting work emerging in trans studies and trans activism is taking up critiques of universalism that underlie rights claims. Scholars and activists are questioning what it means to make rights claims that frame trans resistance in terms of demands for privacy, inclusion, recognition and liberty. We are examining how such claims can end up legitimizing and strengthening conditions of subjection and violence. These inquiries bring to light significant questions about what role law reform should have in resistance struggles and require us to

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