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Introducing the Law and Liberation Lab and The Repository Project/Pushing Past Stage Fright and the…

I love museums and libraries, and it is my biggest dream to not only become lost inside of them, but to somehow be completely subsumed by…

Dec 8, 2024

Introducing the Law and Liberation Lab and The Repository Project/Pushing Past Stage Fright and the…

Dec 8, 2024

Race and National Security — Fall 2024 Public Syllabus

(A humble offering and work-in-progress)

Sep 28, 2024

Race and National Security — Fall 2024 Public Syllabus

Sep 28, 2024

Spring 2023 Syllabus — State Power

In 2022, the (very awesome) then-Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Richmond School of Law asked me if I would…

Sep 21, 2023

Spring 2023 Syllabus — State Power

Sep 21, 2023

Fall 2023 Syllabus — Contemporary Black Feminist Thought in the Law

This Fall, I have the honor and opportunity to debut a new reading group at the University of Richmond School of Law — Contemporary Black…

Sep 16, 2023

Fall 2023 Syllabus — Contemporary Black Feminist Thought in the Law

Sep 16, 2023

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(excerpt from) The Shopping Cart

I noticed the stares before I considered what they meant, of folks trying, and failing, to make sense of what they were seeing. As was…

Feb 17, 2021

(excerpt from) The Shopping Cart

Feb 17, 2021

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Clean up in Aisle 5

This morning, I was wheeling my shopping cart past a magazine stand in Whole Foods Market and caught a glimpse of a magazine cover…

Jan 23, 2021

Clean up in Aisle 5

Jan 23, 2021

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The Patently Racial Politics of Bridgerton’s Racial Utopia

Like tens of millions of viewers around the world, I treated myself to Season One of Shondaland’s adaptation of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton…

Jan 16, 2021

Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton, played by Golda Rosheuvel. Credit: Netflix

Jan 16, 2021

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I See You

The power of seeing and being seen

Sep 27, 2020

A young girl in a market stares upward into the camera.

Sep 27, 2020

The Art of a Bad Deal

On Black Voters’ Limited Negotiating Power

May 5, 2020

The Art of a Bad Deal

May 5, 2020

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Finding My Home in Motown’s Margins

Detroit may be changing but it is still full of Black culture and history

Nov 8, 2019

A photo of two Black youths walking down a street in Detroit.

Nov 8, 2019

Marissa Jackson Sow

Marissa Jackson Sow

Human rights evangelist and legal scholar tracking legal personhood, race, gender, and political and socio-cultural movements. Twitter/ IG @MarissaEsque

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