feature marriage law that is essential to the story she tells both about african-americans in the postbellum. matt -- period and gay manned and lesbian. it allows us to see the normative white character of the marriage equality movement even when the argument weren't explicit and they had a road normative activity a fancy word that i would use with a shout-out to empire. my central point here is that "wedlocked" is an encounter of legal theory that allows us to understand in the words of my friend the places where race no longer talks about race precisely and paradoxically by talking about it to something else. what might race help us think about that race does not -- but to which is nonetheless connect it? in my work i would suggest the things raises about his sexuality. catherine shows us in the "wedlocked" thinking about gay and lesbian sexuality and race. and effusion that i think represents an important insight about how to understand the history of marriage equality and the second panel would be a panel of outlaw and the structure of feeling pretty would focus on those aspects of marri