Saturday, April 07, 2007

Fascinating Footnote

In a legal journal article I'm editing, to quote

Anthony C. Thompson, Navigating the Hidden Obstacles to Ex-Offender Reentry, 45 Boston College Law Review 255, 285 (2004):

[I]n communities of color, women offenders tend to be stigmatized by their community. Although men who commit crimes are not necessarily seen as good members of the community, they are rarely ostracized. Women who engage in crime are often seen as defying gender roles, which is perceived by communities as deviance of a higher order.


Is it because women are supposed to be pure, good, and morally superior to men, or because we're not supposed to engage in self-help (i.e., turning to crime if that's what it takes to survive)?

Friday, April 06, 2007

Today I Applied

To join the Boston Medical Reserve Corps. You don't have to be a medical professional to get involved.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Tentatively checking out Twitter

Very tentatively. This just seems like a great way to distract myself every few minutes, and I don't really need that. We'll see. Me at twitter.