You’ve perhaps heard the phrase “be gay, do crime” at least once in your lavender-shaded life, but consider that, sometimes, the being-gay part is considered a crime all its own. From author and Indiana Innocence Project co-founder Valena Beety comes an in-depth dig into how women and the queer community overall have been criminalized for their identity. “In the United States,” the BookWoman description reads, “nearly three-quarters of all wrongly convicted women were convicted of crimes that never occurred at all.” Yikes! Beety sits with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maggie Freleng this week for a discussion on the various pitfalls of our current legal system, including “how prosecutorial overreach, flawed forensic science, and cultural panic have dramatically expanded the reach of criminal law.” – James Scott
