Uruguay has officially elected their first transgender senator. Michelle Suarez is young, passionate and a vocal advocate for increasing the rights of all transgender people. She has never shied away from pushing policies that are some of the most progressive in the region, as she seeks to bring equality to the LGBT community.
As the vote recount is impatiently awaited by many, president-elect Donald Trump has continued to raise questions of voter fraud, most recently tweeting, “In addition to winning the electoral debate in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally” (Keyes 2016). Nobody has been able to find evidence of a single illegal immigrant casting a vote -let alone millions slipping into the system- that would support this claim.
On October 14, 2015, Pitt’s very own Law Professor Jasmine Gonzales-Rose gave a talk titled, “Race Inequality Fifty Years Later:
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s triumph at this year’s Academy Awards stirred much discussion; but not all necessarily for good reasons. Before announcing the winner for best picture Sean Penn asked, “Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?” Although this comment was intended to be a joke, the controversy that it generated perhaps detracted from González Iñárritu’s well-earned win and highlighted to the older-white-male dominated nature of the Oscars.
