Convicted for being a weedhead tramp in 1944 https://t.co/g3oM91TKW1
In the United States, the last of these laws was not repealed until 1976.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Disability began to be mapped as the group of physical and mental conditions that limited the price at which enslaved people could be sold at auction.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
(The INS paid the PHS no mind; the old definition continued to be used until the US Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1990.)
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Loitering, as you know, means fucking off, or doing jack shit, or jacking off, and given that two of those three terms have sexual connotations, it’s no great imaginative leap to know that it is a repressed and repressive (sexual and otherwise) culture, at least, that invented and criminalized the concept. Someone reading this might very well keel ... See more
Ross Gay • Loitering Is Delightful - The Paris Review
People v. Long
The defendant appeals a trial court order finding his continued detention necessary due to charges of criminal sexual assault, citing a real threat to safety and community under statutory authority.
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