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VIRTUAL: Respecting All Connecticut Families: The Legal Parent-Child Relationship for Unmarried, Same-Sex, and Nonbiological Parents

Who is a parent in Connecticut? The Connecticut Parentage Act, which came into effect in January 2022, is the most significant update to Connecticut’s parentage laws in decades. It ensures that all children in the state have equal access to the security of a legal parent-child relationship regardless of the circumstances of their birth or the marital status, gender, or sexual orientation of their parents. Learn more about parents in Connecticut from Professor Douglas NeJaime, the CPA’s primary drafter.

Getting Un-Stuck: Strategies for Getting Out of The Rut

Join FLY, WWN, YAAA, and YLNG for the next Building Wealth Generator Series event entitled “Getting Un-Stuck: Strategies for Getting Out of The Rut”. We will discuss how to get through painful decisions or disengage from a tangle of overlapping challenges, how the financial and legal implications of being stuck can be devastating and grow worse over time and finding help when facing problems, and investigating alternative paths and moving forward.

Language Matters: Defining the History of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II

Join the Reparative Archival Description Working Group (RAD) at Yale University Library for Language Matters: Defining the History of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II, a virtual symposium focused on the language used to describe the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Euphemisms such as “internment,” “relocation,” and “evacuation,” were utilized by the U.S. government and prevail in many sources that recount this history, including archival description.

Felon: An American Washi Tale | A solo performance by Reginald Dwayne Betts

New Haven local poet, Yale Law School Ph.D. candidate, and MacArthur Genius Fellow, Reginald Dwayne Betts adapts his critically-acclaimed book of poetry, Felon, into a solo performance about re-imaging paper. Felon: An American Washi Tale begins with the pages of a book being slid into a cell, traverses stoves made of toilet paper, kites from a father, handwritten affidavits, legal complaints, handmade paper, certificates of pardon, & 1,000 squares fashioned from the clothing of men serving life sentences.

Felon: An American Washi Tale | A solo performance by Reginald Dwayne Betts

New Haven local poet, Yale Law School Ph.D. candidate, and MacArthur Genius Fellow, Reginald Dwayne Betts adapts his critically-acclaimed book of poetry, Felon, into a solo performance about re-imaging paper. Felon: An American Washi Tale begins with the pages of a book being slid into a cell, traverses stoves made of toilet paper, kites from a father, handwritten affidavits, legal complaints, handmade paper, certificates of pardon, & 1,000 squares fashioned from the clothing of men serving life sentences.

Felon: An American Washi Tale | A solo performance by Reginald Dwayne Betts

New Haven local poet, Yale Law School Ph.D. candidate, and MacArthur Genius Fellow, Reginald Dwayne Betts adapts his critically-acclaimed book of poetry, Felon, into a solo performance about re-imaging paper. Felon: An American Washi Tale begins with the pages of a book being slid into a cell, traverses stoves made of toilet paper, kites from a father, handwritten affidavits, legal complaints, handmade paper, certificates of pardon, & 1,000 squares fashioned from the clothing of men serving life sentences.

Felon: An American Washi Tale | A solo performance by Reginald Dwayne Betts

New Haven local poet, Yale Law School Ph.D. candidate, and MacArthur Genius Fellow, Reginald Dwayne Betts adapts his critically-acclaimed book of poetry, Felon, into a solo performance about re-imaging paper. Felon: An American Washi Tale begins with the pages of a book being slid into a cell, traverses stoves made of toilet paper, kites from a father, handwritten affidavits, legal complaints, handmade paper, certificates of pardon, & 1,000 squares fashioned from the clothing of men serving life sentences.

Felon: An American Washi Tale | A solo performance by Reginald Dwayne Betts

New Haven local poet, Yale Law School Ph.D. candidate, and MacArthur Genius Fellow, Reginald Dwayne Betts adapts his critically-acclaimed book of poetry, Felon, into a solo performance about re-imaging paper. Felon: An American Washi Tale begins with the pages of a book being slid into a cell, traverses stoves made of toilet paper, kites from a father, handwritten affidavits, legal complaints, handmade paper, certificates of pardon, & 1,000 squares fashioned from the clothing of men serving life sentences.

Yale English Department’s Initiative on Literature & Racial Justice presents Randall Horton on Monday April 4th at 5pm

Randall Horton is the author of Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays (2022) and several books of poetry, including Pitch Dark Anarchy: Poems ( 2013) and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street (2009). His most recent poetry collection, #289–128: Poems (2020) was awarded the American Book Award. In 2019 he served as poet-in-residence for the Civil Rights Corps in Washington, DC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system.

2022 Greater New Haven Heart Walk

The Greater New Haven Heart Walk is back and ready to reinvigorate your heart-healthy lifestyle by uniting our community for better health, a fun experience and opportunity to help save lives.

This year, you can Heart Walk Here, there or anywhere! Choose our path or yours. We invite you to walk with our affinity group members at our in-person event on 5/7 at Savin Rock in West Haven, or wherever you feel inspired. No matter where you choose to walk, participating and donating to the Heart Walk will save lives and improve lives.