And right now we can take political risks to protect the criminal risks that other people are taking.

We don't actually have to wait for the law to catch up.

It's not going to.

We don't have time. Welcome to the Death Panel.

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myself and my co-host j Jules Gil Peterson. Hello.

And the two of us are joined by returning guest and friend of the panel, Melissa Jira Grant.

If you're not familiar with Melissa's work, she is a staff writer at the New Republic,

the author of the book Playing the Horror, the Work of Sex Work, Published by Verso,

and her next book, which is forthcoming, is called

A Woman is Against the Law, Sex, Race, and the Limits of Justice in America.

And Melissa has been tirelessly covering the intersections of gender, sexuality, race,

health and reproductive justice, and the so-called law at the New Republic.

And as Jules put it, in an email between the three of us last night, Melissa's work has been vital to making sense of this

latest round of fuckery that we're going to talk about today. So Melissa, welcome back to the

death panel. It's always so nice to have you on, even though it usually means that something terrible

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