the picture above is of the 7/11 slurpees I will be working on during my spring break trip to Seattle, but I am now really currently working on a mountain of schoolwork. Spring is in the air and I'm trapped in my house. We CEOS dont jut make fruits and sit around looking pretty all the time. We have schoolwork to do. Here are a couple of things I am currently working on.
1. Senior paper
"let's talk about sex, ruby: an interracial relationship that rocked 1950s America."(the title to my paper)
I am writing my senior paper this semester. I have selected Florida v. McCollum, a 1952 murder case that took place in Live Oak, Florida. My main focus is the interracial relationship between the defendant, a black woman called Ruby McCollum, and murder victim,a white man called Dr. C. Leroy Adams. Through my research I am exploring the relationship between race and sex in 1950s America. I will hit on how white males are treating different in the US legal system with regards to rape and murder, and the social treatment of interracial relationships in the 1950s. I am thoroughly enjoying the research, but also scared of the writing process.
2.Feminist Legal Theory project
I am working on a class presentation on the topic of marital rape: specifically the evolution of marital rape in the American legal system. My argument pertains to the idea that the consent is the issue that greatly slowed down the criminalization of marital rape. The readings are amazing but at the same time causing serious emotional damage.
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