Center on Applied Feminism
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@ubaltlaw bringing legal theory & practice together through applied scholarship focused on #feminist legal theory that intersects with race, class, and gender.
Baltimore, MD
Joined December 2019
@MDLegalAid @MarylandOPD @MDHumanServices @HopkinsMedicine @SpinakJane: Courts cannot separate children, and “should support communities to be able to take care of their own children.” CAPTA allows parents to be prosecuted without lawyers, evidence, and without the judge enforcing what the law requires.
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@MDLegalAid @MarylandOPD @MDHumanServices Dr. Caballero from @HopkinsMedicine discusses the mass trauma caused by family removal, highlighting family separation at the US-Mexico border and the unacceptable conditions of kids living in cages.
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@MDLegalAid @MarylandOPD @MDHumanServices Mr. Lopez: “Why wouldn’t we spend more time investing on the front end on prevention than spending more money?”.
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@MDLegalAid @MarylandOPD Mr. Lopez/@MDHumanServices: “The Obama administration changed Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, the first time in US history to allow the child welfare system to use federal funds to invest in prevention.”.
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@MDLegalAid Ms. Villamar/@MarylandOPD: Removal leads to resentment, distrust, and trauma within the communities.
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@MDLegalAid Ms. Schultz/@MDLegalAid: 72% of children in foster care are receiving psychotropic medication WITHOUT a documented psychiatric diagnosis.
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Next up at #CFCC2023: panel on Removal Today with Prudence Beidler Carr @ABACCL, Dr. Tania Caballero @HopkinsMedicine, Rafael Lopez @MDHumanServices, Iesha Randolph, Nena Villamar @MarylandOPD, Vicki Schultz @MDLegalAid, & Jane Spinak @SpinakJane.
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*boarding schools.
@ndnadoptee .@ndnadoptee: "It was cheaper to put us in boarding skills than to kill us. Then it got cheaper to adopt us." Sandy White Hawk is the Founder and Director of Healing Programs at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition @NABSHC.
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.@ndnadoptee: "Plant the seeds, be a red leaf when you can, and always lead in compassion. Always." Sandy White Hawk closes out the panel with a song - "I want to live with my relatives, so I will pray first.".
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Audience Q: "We're in an industry that is making money & we do it so well. There's nothing broken. Because if it was broken, as a business, we would have been shut down. That's what they do to businesses that are broken. They shut them down. We are growing, and we are strong.".
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Mr. @AlanDettlaff: "Children are taken from their parents & put in homes in communities that have better resources & access to education. That starts to confuse the best interest standard. It's not the job of this system to improve life outcomes for children. And they don't.".
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Mr. Best/@MiningForGold: "I ascribe power to people who are deemed powerless because they are the most powerful.".
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Ms. Burton/@SankofaRose: "This is the system that we've inherited. But this is not the system that we have to continue to accept. We should be spending our time thinking about how we can dismantle these oppressive systems that have gotten us to where we are now.".
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@CurreyCook @ndnadoptee Mr. Best/@MiningForGold: "Folk have miscategorized our righteous rage for anger.".
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@CurreyCook @ndnadoptee .@ndnadoptee: "We do have to respect time and people's time. But we also should respect the natural flow of life.".
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@CurreyCook .@ndnadoptee discusses how she doesn't speak on panels anymore, because there's not enough time. "We miss such important things by having to hurry.".
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Mr. @CurreyCook: "We are in a major cycle of more disinformation and impression with this year being the largest number of anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures in history. Over 500. just state-sponsored hate and disinformation attempted to be enshrined in the law.".
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