i am pleased and as proud as punch that my colleague katherine franke's book is given as a toolkit to think to some of the intractable problems and the enormous challenges that those of us who still believe that there is dignity to the struggle for sexual liberation will need in the years to come. thank you very much. [applause] >> since the conference is not yet scheduled i think we will take some time now to discuss the wonderful book in these responses. i think it's everybody's fantasy to have such different and rich responses to anything that one has just published so i think it's a tribute to this wonderful book into our speakers. sub or would you like to respond to any of these questions before we open it up -- katherine would you like to respond to any these questions before we open it up? >> i actually would rather hear questions i will work my responses into answers to your questions but hopefully also answer your questions. >> so, the floor is open. >> thank you to all of you for the work you have done. i've been a reporter for many years and i'm transitioning to becoming an

so katherine franke's account of gay and lesbian marriage as a story that is closely connected, not only closely connected to but, as a story about race, i think represents an enormously valuable contribution to the work of those who are situated at the intersection of critical race theory on one side and queer legal theory on the other. and she does it through this idea of aggragation. she is calling in effect one might say for aggragation of race and sexuality which recalls in a kind of reverse mirror image an argument in her earlier work against the disaggragation of sex and gender. so this attention to and her delight in the thought experiment that is possible when one engages in a kind of a free association historically informed to be sure but a free association of sex and gender offers us a rich analytic tool for tracking the shifting and supple and fluid movement of marriage law across multiple multidimensional axe sees. the book allows us to think in terms one might say about the condensations, combinations and rye combination, the dynamic fluid character of, mixed modal characte

digs out from all of this snow, frank mccarten with be deputy commissioner of operations here at new york city's office of emergency management, and on the phone, katherine garcia, commissioner of the department of sanitation which operates the city's snowplows. katherine, talk a little bit about going ahead and the big job ahead for snowplows. we know some of the sidewalks and streets are being cleared but we are still seeing huge amounts of snow all around the city. >> yes, absolutely. this was an enormous storm that came in pretty fast and crews worked diligently to try to stay ahead of it. but the intensities were pretty overwhelming. we are in pretty good shape on most of the arterial highways but a lot of work to do on secondary streets and a lot of hauling in some of the smaller areas where we literal will have to dig it out and take it away because there is nowhere to put this much snow. >> at what point do you make a decision about tomorrow morning as millions of people either think about taking their kids to school, coming in to the city to work. at what point to city or state officials make the decision about whether those conditions are acces