This Trans Latina Shares How Trump Presidency Impacted Her Life in New Docuseries
This Trans Latina Shares How Trump Presidency Impacted Her Life in New Docuseries
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Rebecca, a trans Latina originally from Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas, can’t imagine what her life would be like today if she and her mother hadn’t left Mexico for the United States when she was 10 years old. She’s not even sure she would be alive.
“The hate crime for trans women in Mexico is very, very high,” Rebecca says at the start of her episode in the four-part docuseries
Trans in Trumpland. “If we would have stayed back in Mexico, I wouldn’t be who I am and maybe wouldn’t even be in this world.”
‘Take a risk’ and run your firm from overseas
By Jerome Doraisamy|18 February 2021
When Rebecca Murray moved to Washington, DC and continued to operate her Queensland-based firm, she was worried she’d lose clients. Not only did that not happen, but she also became an award-winning sole practitioner.
In October of last year, Lawyers Weekly spoke to Cornwalls senior associate Sarah Bullock – who won Senior Associate of the Year at the 2020 Australian Law Awards – about her 16-month stint working for her firm from Canada. In that conversation, Ms Bullock explained why remote work from overseas is viable for more lawyers most-pandemic, and advised lawyers how they can successfully pitch an employer for such a working arrangement.
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