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Jennifer Hendricks

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feminist law professor. regulation of pregnancy, gender and sports, relational feminist theory, ecofeminism.

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · Nov 20

The law of pregnancy is overrun by a sexist ideology that masquerades as sex equality while denigrating gestation and other caretaking. Feminists must work to overthrow this skewed value system that subordinates women, devalues caretaking, and impoverishes the law of our fundamental rights.

Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood a book by Jennifer Hendricks

Essentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman's nine months of gestation hardly count in her claim to...

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 8h

Read the whole thing here!

The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country

The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country [Hendricks, Steve] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 8h

Steve is a big fan of the anti-acknowledgement. He follows this intro with five paragraphs anti-thanking various entities and individuals:

text: Authors' acknowledgements nearly always lie by omission--specifically, by acknowledging only those worthy of thanks. But for every two people who do a book like mine a kindness, three throw obstacles in its way. A few of these devils should be given their due.

Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 12h

I don't even have an office phone anymore. They re-routed our phone numbers to Microsoft Teams, which I refuse to use. I did manage to set it up so that any voice mails that get left are sent to my email.

I've been putting my cell number on my syllabi since fall 2020. No student has ever called.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 13h

We are surrounded by Chekov's Laws that we ignored at our peril.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 17h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 16h

If this administration were at war here, interfering with medical transport and threatening an attack on medical personnel would be a war crime. & they have said (repeatedly, including to assembled military command at Quantico) that this is a war.

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Highlights in **’s.

Respect for and protection of medical transports
State practice generally indicates that medical transports enjoy the same protection as mobile medical units. Hence, the meaning of the terms
"respect and protection" as interpreted in the context of medical units (see commentary to Rule 28) applies mutatis mutandis to medical transports. In practice, this means that *medical transports must not be attacked or their
passage
arbitrarily obstructed.*
This
interpretation is explicitly stated in the military manuals of Germany, South Africa and Switzerland. [31] The military manuals of Benin, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo state that the mission, content and actual use of medical transports may be checked through inspection.
[32]

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 16h

I read something else about "removal" this morning. First I thought it was about invoking the subject-matter jurisdiction of a federal court, then I thought it was about deporting people, and finally I figured out it was about firing people.

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Gary Gehman @glgehman.bsky.social · 2d

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 4d

Is this by any chance the same writer who recently announced that after intense study, he felt compelled to inform a shocked and reelling world that the genius of Springsteen's work is more in the lyrics than in its similarity to Schubert's lieders?

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm. I feel like it's fair, given *which* things are indexed to inflation and which are not.

Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 5d

Boulder: Sanitas

Helena: Helena

Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 5d

the people who've been actually winning in red states

Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, goody, look who gets to be thrown under the bus.

"As the political scientist Adam Przeworski points out, Polish pro-democracy forces won only when they agreed to leave aside their bitter divisions over abortion until after they had succeeded."

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 5d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 5d

I hear a lot of talk about legislatures in states like Ohio and Missouri blocking the will of the voters on abortion. Colorado is as blue as they come, but that doesn't mean there aren't arms of the state the think they're above the people.

David Seligman for Colorado Attorney General @daveyseligman.bsky.social · 6d

We are beginning trial today in our case on behalf of a class of all those incarcerated in Colorado fighting for their basic right to be free from involuntary servitude. But we shouldn’t have to be here. /1

www.westword.com/news/colorad...

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David Seligman for Colorado Attorney General @daveyseligman.bsky.social · 6d

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 6d

I think we need to start indicating "Trump 1" or "Trump 2" on these designations.

Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 6d

[He wants] his children [to be] self-sufficient ... fixing, variously, a fan belt (using a pair of his wife’s stockings), a coffee machine and the automated cover for the swimming pool. “It’s important to me that they can survive,” he said.

Is it the reporter or Clooney who's being sarcastic here?

George Clooney says his children have a ‘much better life’ being raised in France than LA

The actor said that life on their French farm will be free of paparazzi, teach them self sufficiency and let them see his handyman skills, such as fixing the coffee machine

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 7d

Wait, what is this about submitting "a condensed draft"?

"You must have a draft paper before you can even submit to the symposium, but we're not going to read it. LOL. You have to make us a separate, shorter version."

Do they mean a précis?

Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 8d

I guess I should have expected something like this once I learned that they clap between movements here.

Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 8d

We went to a concert, and there was a drunk guy who yelled "woo" when he liked the music, put his feet up, and staggered in and out of the concert hall, once coming back with a new drink. Much of which sounds normal for a concert until I tell you it was Beethoven's triple concerto and 5th symphony.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 10d

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 10d

there's really a point where i genuinely fear for my own immortal soul, because even as i oppose this administration, i still am a part of this polity and am guilty of its sins

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants.

KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
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I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly mis- judges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the sta- bility our Government has promised them. Because, re- spectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 10d

I'm thinking about that as I work on an article about marriage (and what we in the biz call "nonmarriage") as a sharing institution. Anyway, here's a history of the Boulder Chautauqua, part of the Chautauqua Movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. We could do this again!

Boulder’s Chautauqua Park: A History | Your Boulder

Boulder’s citizens put great value on the physical health and well being of their bodies. They also place a huge amount of emphasis on the health and well being of their minds. At the foot of the flat...

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 10d

My spouse (free-lance writer) recently told me (lawyer cum professor), "Sometimes when we have a really bad fight, I think about how, if you left me, I'd have to listen to the symphony from outside."

Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 10d

Boulder has a Chautauqua Park with a concert hall--basically a big barn with lots of gaps in the walls. You can buy a ticket, like for a regular theater, or you can picnic outside and listen for free.

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