Under Deconstruction

Students, alumni, and more are invited to submit shorter critical notes, book reviews, responses to articles published in BGLJ, responses to recent events and other commentaries. Suggested length is 500 to 1000 words. Submissions should meet our mandate. All work is peer edited and published here on our site. Email submissions to bglj.online@berkeley.edu.

Jess Vlacos 6/6/24 Jess Vlacos 6/6/24

1,190,953 and Counting

To me, queerness isn’t about my liberty to do whatever I want. It’s about cultivating the collective autonomy of my community. This includes taking steps to keep myself from getting COVID because choosing to increase my risk of exposure would mean forcing the people around me to increase their risk of exposure as well.

AJ Stone Jonathan 9/29/23 AJ Stone Jonathan 9/29/23

Informing Intersections

“To consider an intersection, in its legal, theoried meaning, involves looking at experiences of discrimination and power. It involves locating people along more than one axis of power, and looking to how the experience of multiple identities imbued with legal meaning – race and sex, certainly, but also class, sexuality, ability, nationality, religion, and more – cannot be synthesized down to the experience of just one identity, just one working of power…”

AJ Stone Jonathan 9/29/23 AJ Stone Jonathan 9/29/23

Our Journal, and all the words that describe us

“As we decide what to publish, and consider why, it is not just about remembering our purpose, but about coming to know that purpose more fully. In exchange for our power – to publish, to decide, to hold space for, to care – it is our responsibility to be informed…”