Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity

by | Oct 11, 2026

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Interviewer: Justin Winchester

Justin is a DPhil Law candidate researching positive duties to promote and achieve equality funded by a Rhodes Scholarship. Justin holds a BCom (2019) and an LLB (2021) from the University of Cape Town and a BCL (2022/23) from Oxford. Justin previously worked in research and strategic human-rights litigation whilst a Litigation Fellow at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI). He has published articles on equality, human rights, and administrative law.

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If you find yourself trying to explain how the law is actively fueling and reinforcing gender ideology in the United States, the book you will want to have on hand is Valena Beety’s ‘Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity’.

In this episode, Justin Winchester speaks to Professor Beety about no-crime convictions, substantive equality, queerness and solidarity, and much more.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
Executive produced by Meghan Campbell.
Hosted by Justin Winchester.
Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.
Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.

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