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Holding Up a Mirror to Hostile Gender Legislation: The Impact of Drag Bans on the Theater Industry
Full text linkStates, particularly infringing upon the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community. Certain states have sought to introduce “drag ban” laws under the guise of protecting children from viewing obscene content. These laws, in effect, are harmful to people, children especially, and have a chilling effect on expression, leaving critical harm in their wake. Laws such as these cast a wide net of regulation, opening up otherwise innocent citizens to criminal and civil liability. The theater industry is particularly affected by these regulations, even if lawmakers do not acknowledge this potential harm. This article will focus on three laws seeking to regulate drag performance. Next, this article will address how these laws implicate the first amendment and infringe upon expressive conduct by chilling speech. Then, this article will discuss the economic structure of the theater industry to provide context to elucidate the potential economic and social harms that will likely result from this nature of legislation. Further, this article will explain those social and fiscal harms resulting from the legislation. Finally, this article will argue that these laws will not overcome a constitutional challenge on the basis of overbreadth and vagueness and must be struck down
Ecocentric Environmental Justice: Why We Should Go There and How We Can Get There
Full text linkEnvironmental justice is necessary. It forces us to grapple with the fact that environmental burdens and benefits have been disproportionately divvied up across arbitrary race- and income-based lines, asks “what are you going to do about it?”, and offers solutions and answers to the problems it identifies. Everyone benefits from environmental justice. At the same time, environmental protection is necessary. Not only does environmental protection, by definition, protect the biotic and abiotic components of the natural world, but it further serves to protect humans, who unequivocally rely on the natural environment to sustain their collective life. Everything – living and non-living – depends on a functioning and protected natural environment. This piece, recognizing the above, explores how to marry environmental justice and ecocentrism. The environmental justice movement is presently and predominantly anthropocentric, and because anthropocentricism garners the capacity to be harmful when left unchecked, the movement ought to peel away from its human-centered lens and embrace the nature-centered lens of ecocentrism. The marriage proposed herein is simple: a new definition of environmental justice
The Effect of Ethnic Identity on Psychological Well-Being Mediated by Motivation to use Social Media
Full text linkSelf-Compassion and Attachment Insecurity: Examining the Relationship Between Self-Compassion, Insecure Attachment, and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction
Full text linkNurses\u27 Knowledge and Attitudes Towards the Healthcare Needs of Transgender Persons
Full text linkExploring the relationship between the nurse work environment, burnout, and central line-associated bloodstream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections
Full text linkDJ Henry In Memoriam Video
No full textThis video explains the background of Social Justice Week and shares information about the life and legacy of DJ Henry. The video also includes family photos of DJ, from early childhood through his time as a Pace student athlete
Enumerating Environmental Exemptions in Section 501(c)(3)
Full text linkTens of thousands environmental charities operate with the United States. These charities operate to “preserve, protect, and improve the environment.” Roughly half of the revenue of environmental charities is sourced directly from the public. These public donations depend, at least in part, on the organizations’ tax-exempt status, which allows donors to deduct their donations for tax purposes. Because donors take into account the after-tax cost of their donations, an environmental charity’s tax exemption encourages donors to donate more than they would if the charity lacked a tax exemption. However, an environmental organization’s tax-exempt status is tenuous and contingent on agency interpretation. The Internal Revenue Code lists eight tax-exempt purposes, none of which are environmental. Environmental organizations’ exemption arrives not through legislation but through administrative action—the IRS announced that environmental organizations fit under the exempt umbrella of “charitable” organizations, a pre-existing statutory category of qualifying tax-exempt organizations. Additionally, the value of the tax law is not limited to its substance; tax law also serves an expressive function. In its expressive function, it can encourage and discourage certain behaviors. It can, implicitly or explicitly, put the weight of government approbation behind certain organizations and classes of organizations. Tax exemption may, in fact, be more powerfully expressive than much of tax law. While much of the tax law is opaque—or even scary—to the general public, section 501(c)(3) is salient, and arguably hypersalient. Climate change has evolved into a critical and pressing issue. It is good that organizations which work to reduce climate change can avoid taxes and receive tax-deductible donations. But if the government truly wants to both signal its support for efforts to preserve the environment and ensure that environmental organizations continue to qualify for tax exemption, it must amend section 501(c)(3) to expressly allow environmental organizations to qualify. Moreover, because organizations already qualify for exemption, amending section 501(c)(3) offers the federal government a low-cost path toward disseminating its support for environmental priorities