Whose Suffering Matters? from Boston Review. Signed seventy years ago, the UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.
“Sarah’s willingness and fearlessness in being honest is what brought us together,” adds Paskey.
Lenz, a graphic designer and artist, grew up in Berkeley, California, while Paskey, raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a lecturer in law, legal analysis, writing and research at the University at Buffalo School of Law. He spent more than a decade working in the Department of Justice, bringing to trial Nazi collaborators who came to the United States after the war. But he began his career working in desktop publishing and typesetting, the field in which Lenz also began her career.
Given the shutdown and the distance between them, there was plenty of time for long, rambling conversations on the phone or online. Paskey opened up about his two short-term marriages and other relationships, while Lenz had a more recent story to tell. She had met her husband when she was 17, and theirs was an open marriage. In 2013, she left him, taking a few years to be on her own as an adult for the fir