Abstract
This article practices Participatory Law Scholarship and Movement Law to engage Marginalized and Mobilized Youth in legal scholarship and to elevate their resistance against book bans and trans bans. Together, we—a legal scholar-practitioner, frontline movement lawyer, Youth community legal worker, and law student-activist—make the positive claim that book bans and trans bans constitute a dignity taking—a state action that takes property from a marginalized group and dehumanizes and infantilizes that group in the process. Further, we make the normative claim that legal advocates committed to repairing the deprivations of these bans and bills must attend to both the material loss and the immaterial loss of Youth dignity. The article concludes with movement lawyering and prefigurative strategies that legal scholars and practitioners can use to win material change, redistribute power and property, and reimagine law in solidarity with targeted Youth. As the first piece of legal scholarship to join frontline practitioners and Youth legal workers as co-authors, this article provides new insights on the material failure of constitutional law to protect Mobilized and Marginalized Youth from the legislative and administrative violence of book bans and trans bans.
Volume Number
1
Issue Number
1
Recommended Citation
Camiscoli, Sarah M.; Duggins-Clay, Paige; Salmanova, Maryam; and Chamakh, Ibtihal
(2024)
"Youth Dignity Takings: How Book and Trans Bans Take Youth Property and Dignity,"
Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/lijpil/vol1/iss1/1
