Rights-Making and Rights-Taking: A Module on Stonewall and Intersectionality

In the end, I decided to frame rights in the context of "rights-making" and
"rights-taking." By "rights-making," I asked the students to reflect on the
fact that civil, human, constitutional, etc. rights are always made in a
historical context. In practice, rights are never constant. They are
negotiated, claimed, and fought for. By "rights-taking," I wanted them to
think about how, in these historical contexts, rights are taken (i.e.
claimed) by activists or taken away by those with ...