Yet Another New Guest Blogger: Gowri Ramachandran

Thanks to all the permaprawfs for inviting me on for a guest visit!  I’m a visiting professor at FSU with Dan, and in the fall, will be joining Paul at Southwestern.  Add to that my friendships from law school with Ethan and Steve, and I have to admit feeling like some kind of privileged crony, albeit only in the context of Prawfsblawg.

My academic focus is on employment discrimination, constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, and queer/postfeminist theory.  But I’m also an avid follower (and very occasional producer) of film, television, fashion, and other elements of popular culture, in ways that aren’t always separate from my academic work.  So peppered among my thoughts on how to avoid identity politics, without reducing one’s beliefs to what Steven Seidman calls a “politics against identity,” you may occasionally see my passionate response to the latest front page of Sunday Styles—the portion of the New York Times I most love to hate.

So here's hoping my perspective contributes to the diversity of the views presented here, not just along the axes for which I am typically thought of as “different” in the legal academy, but along some other ones, too.