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Announcing: The Catherine Albiston Prize for Recent Developments on Gender, Law & Justice
Apr 15th
The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice is now accepting submissions for its first annual student writing competition.
Please see flyer for details.
2012 Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Award for Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of Social Justice for Women: Anne Tamar-Mattis
Feb 22nd
The Journal created the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Award for Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of Social Justice for Women in 1985 when theJournal was founded. Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong was the only woman in the Boalt Hall Class of 1915. She became the Morrison Professor of Municipal Law, Emeritus, and was the first tenured woman law professor in the United States. She was instrumental in drafting state and federal social security acts and also published a monumental text on family law and community property.
The Armstrong Award is a national award open to all people—including scholars, community workers, legal practitioners, and activists—who demonstrate outstanding advocacy on behalf of social justice for women and underrepresented genders. The recipient is chosen by the membership of the Journal.
The recipient of this year’s Armstrong Award is Anne Tamar-Mattis. Ms. Tamar-Mattis, a Berkeley Law alumna and former Journal member, currently teaches Sexual Orientation & the Law at Berkeley Law and is the Founder & Executive Director of Advocates for Informed Choice—the nation’s first and only organization that provides legal advocacy on behalf of children with intersex conditions or differences of sex development. Advocates for Informed Choice builds upon the peer support and political advocacy work already taking place within the intersex community by providing patient advocates and members of the media with the resources they need to support children born with intersex conditions and by stimulating legal dialogue about the civil and human rights of intersex children. Ms. Tamar-Mattis is also deeply involved in the LGBT rights movement: among her many endeavors, she has served as the director of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, an intern with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the East Bay Community Law Center’s HIV Law Clinic, and the director of a peer-support hotline for LGBT youth.
The Journal is very proud of Anne Tamar-Mattis and is honored to present her with the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Award for her ongoing advocacy on behalf of LGBT and intersex communities.
Volume 27:1 Dedication
Feb 22nd
Volume 27 of the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice is dedicated to Girls Kick It, a non-profit organization that emotionally and economically empowers female youth who have been displaced by the Northern Ugandan Civil War. Girls Kick It provides young women living in Gulu town and the Paicho Internally Displaced Persons Camp with team-building and leadership-building activities and weekly soccer practice. The girls who have participated in the program have demonstrated new-found confidence, teamwork, and the belief that they have control of their futures as a result of their involvement with Girls Kick It.
Girls Kick It and its parent organization, Global Youth Partnership for Africa (GYPA) are responsible for a wide variety of projects that combat rampant gender inequality in East Africa. For example, they have organized a mixed-gender team to represent Uganda at the annual Homeless World Cup that took place in Cape Town in 2006 and Denmark in 2007. Girls Kick It and GYPA also organized the first all-female delegation to Female Homeless World Cup in Melbourne in 2008 and then again in Rio in 2010. Girls Kick It now plans to expand its services by providing the loan funding to build a gweno (poultry) house in Paicho and the management training necessary to oversee this enterprise. In doing so, the Girls Kick It team will, for the first time, provide a real economic opportunity for the young girls and women of Paicho.
In a region traumatized by war where many displaced women and girls are forced to spend their childhoods as sex slaves, Girls Kick It uses the power of sport to transform women’s lives and get them involved in ongoing efforts to train, educate, empower, and unite the people of Uganda. Girls Kick It is a source of hope for Ugandan women, and, given its expanding mission, we believe that it will continue to create lasting changes in that region.
Checkout Advocates for Informed Choice–An Organization Doing Awesome Work that Supports our Mandate
Apr 20th
