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Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking on the button below. Thanks! Tomorrow is the first day of June, LGBTQ Pride Month. Happy Pride! In honor of the occasion, I interviewed Alejandra Caraballo, one of the nation’s most prominent advocates for—and authorities on—transgender rights.

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking on the button below. Thanks! Are you having a hard time keeping track of all the Supreme Court ethics episodes? You’re not alone—and some of us have to do it as a job.

1 Rafael Delacruz made a beautiful video for my song, The Well. 2 I interviewed the artist, Jorge Pardo a few years ago for a column I wrote in Art in America, asking him for recommendations. I’ll be posting these recommendation columns in each of my substacks for the next few months. 3 Henry Flynt is a philosopher, musician and artist who began working in the post-John Cage milieu of New York in the early 1960s.

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Kader Diaby is many things: a visionary clothing designer, a talented photographer and artist, a business management consultant for one of the Big Four accounting firms, and a karaoke king who does an excellent rendition of Adele’s “Easy On Me.” Most importantly, though, is that he is thoroughly Abidjanais, a man who loves Côte d’Ivoire’s main city with an infectious passion. His new collection, “Boulevard Lagunaire,” the third collection of his unisex brand Olooh, is a testament to that love.

If you enjoyed my very first blog, Underneath Their Robes (2004-2006)—which I wrote under a pseudonym while working as a federal prosecutor, pretending to be a female associate in Biglaw obsessed with federal judges and fashion—then you’ll enjoy this latest podcast episode. How many podcasts combine analysis of Supreme Court oral arguments with discussion of pumps versus cowboy boots versus Mary Janes? (For the record, my guest made the first reference to shoes; I didn’t go there unprompted.

This is the first interview of a series I’m doing exploring how people across different industries use beauty to do their jobs. The first few will focus on women who choose to work in the oldest profession around, but it is not an in-depth series on the intricacies and complications of the sex work industry: it is a series of interviews across careers that use beauty, and the interviewees span race, class, and gender.