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Kate Redburn

is a JD/Phd student at Yale Law School and the Yale Department of History, working on queer and trans* legal history of 20th century U.S. Prior to starting graduate school, they worked as a community organizer in New York, and as a photographer and oral historian in Argentina thanks to a Fulbright Research Grant. You can find their writing in lefty magazines, including Jacobin Magazine where they are a contributing editor.

Essays & Reviews

If You Build It, They Will Come

By Kate RedburnAugust 28, 2012
Instead if somehow serving the needs of transgender people, a prison reserved exclusively for them merely ensures that unchecked social stigma will result in continued abrogation of justice.
Essays & Reviews

Hate on Me

By Kate RedburnFebruary 17, 2012
The logic of anti–hate crime legislation is seductively easy to support, but it fails to account for the hate built into law enforcement
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