Debra Parkes
@DebraParkes
Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. Lives in New West. She/her. #NoMorePrisons
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http://www.allard.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/debra-parkes 27-01-2012 23:11:39
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Some outstanding letters of protest here from NYU (New York University) faculty to the President and Provost, but the below from Steven Hahn is pure 🔥 🔥 🔥 : facultyforpalestine.education/statements/fac…
Thinking of our dear QMUL School of Law colleague Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian who has been subjected to degrading treatment by Israeli police, & isolated by Israeli academics for speaking out against genocide in Gaza, & for researching Israeli unchilding
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It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.
Come out next Wednesday night in #Montreal McGill Faculty of Law | Faculté de droit for a 'Prison Abolition in Canada' roundtable feat. El Jones, Debra Parkes & me.
Will be selling copies of #HowToAbolishPrisons & CPEP Group merch to raise funds 4 CAPP Kemptville legal fund, Prisoner Correspondence Project + Termite Collective
Trying to find out when we will find out the group Canada will be in for the Olympic women's football tournament (and the dates/places for their games)? Hoping to get tix for group stage and need to plan. Shireen Ahmed OneSoccer Canada Soccer fifa.com/tournaments/wo…
Hear from experts on the issues surrounding Alberta's new anti-trans, anti-queer policies. Misinformation is fuelling support for these policies, and this teach-in will help dispel some of it. Please share this event widely! Register tinyurl.com/ypv52fuy Florence Ashley
Making sure students are supported, and feel safe and welcome in our schools is fundamental. Thank you James Richardson and Jaimie McEvoy for your support and endorsement of Jalen Bachra (Jalen Bachra) in the school board by-election. Voting day is this Saturday, February 3!
#Trans 🏳️⚧️people have existed for millenniums. No amount of legislation or hate will change that, by Jacqueline Murray theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… via Globe Opinion