Complicated thing

“VAWA’s focus on law enforcement reduces the really more complicated thing of violence against women to be a problem of the law. And it’s not just a problem of the law.”

Beth Richie,  director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, talks about flaws in the Violence Against Women Act, Feb. 27 Time

“The Los Angeles area is the place where the U.S. gay rights movement was born.”

John D’Emilio, professor of gender and women’s studies and history, on the birth of the U.S. gay rights movement, Feb. 22 Long Beach Press-Telegraph