The 82 Percent: Bonus Conversation with Alex Chen

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Jul 25, 2024

Alex Chen, Founding Director of Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, discusses legal roots of nuclear family, monogamy, and fight for diverse family rights. Topics include challenges in promoting non-traditional family structures, impact of discrimination, economic disadvantages, and historical roots of family dynamics in America.

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Intro

00:00 • 3min

Legal Advocacy Clinic and LGBTQ+ Advocacy at Harvard Law School

03:21 • 2min

Exploring Diverse Family Structures within the LGBTQ+ Community

05:31 • 10min

Challenges of Diverse Family Structures: Legal Recognition and Discrimination

15:34 • 2min

Legal Recognition and Economic Disadvantages in Diverse Families

17:25 • 8min

Exploring the Origins of the Nuclear Family and Alternative Family Structures

25:24 • 3min

Exploring the Evolution and Impact of Family Structures in America

28:40 • 17min

Discussion on Polyamory Legal Advocacy and Support

45:11 • 3min

In this special bonus episode, Whit Missildine interviews Alex Chen. Alex Chen is the Founding Director of the Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and a founding member of Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition. In this conversation we discuss the legal and historical roots of the nuclear family, monogamy and the challenges and successes in the fight for rights for diverse family structures.

Alex is one of the nation’s leading experts in LGBTQ+ civil rights law. He also teaches Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and the Law at the Law School. Previously, Alexander served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. He also co-drafted AB 2119, a bill that made California the first state to guarantee access to transition-related health care for trans youth in foster care. Alex received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was the first openly transgender editor of the Harvard Law Review. You can find out more about Alex and his work at PLAC at polyamorylegal.org

Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits

Content/Trigger Warnings: sexual themes, explicit language

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