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Posts by Juan Bobo

Jan. 6, 2010

Is a Marriage One Couple or Two People?

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Entry #2: January 5th, 2010 “Legal texts are an essential part of the literature of the society that produces it. These texts, like novels, poetry, or plays, express the inquietudes (anxieties?), values, and the aspirations of a culture.” (Marco Rigau,…

Jan. 6, 2010

Male Feminist

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I’m taking a Winter Term class at the Law School of the University of Ottawa in Ontario. The class is called Feminist Legal Issues. Like one of my recent professors, who I call “the prof” to make him mad, fellow…

Jan. 1, 2010

Is ‘race’ Real?

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Entry #3: January 6th, 2010 According to the third chapter of Professor Constance Backhouse’s Colour Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada (1900-1950), titled “The Legal Prohibition of Aboriginal Dance: Wanduta’s Trial, Manitoba, 1903”, there seemed to be a…

Dec. 26, 2009

Dear Santa: Can We BOND?

As my brother Gabriel lit up a cigarette I wondered when was the last time I spent Christmas without my entire family. It’s Christmas Day and my little brother and I are walking down 6th Avenue in Midtown passing by…

Dec. 23, 2009

At the Airport…

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It seemed like a quiet Sunday morning in 2009, but it wasn’t like any other. I woke up to my second of three alarms total, to an anxious dog who knew I was leaving, but with a feeling of complete…

Dec. 13, 2009

Ley 7 Del 2009: ¿Política Pública Argumentiva O Cultural?

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  “[The ideal reader] is also the perfect reader implied by another text, say a Jane Austen novel, Mein Kampf, or a Coca Cola ad[vertisement]. Yet to try to become the reader that Plato or Austen seem to be addressing…