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Ruth Abrams
Ruth I. Abrams (born 1930) was the first female justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, where she served from 1978 to 2000, and the first female appellate justice in Massachusetts.
Justice Abrams is a graduate of Radcliffe College's Class of 1953. She went on to graduate from Harvard Law School, one of approximately a dozen women in the Class of 1956. She was an assistant district attorney for Middlesex County (MA) and also served with the State Attorney General's Office. Justice Abrams
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According to the "Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions", queer theorists and activists have reinterpreted ancient texts "searching for alternative voices" that demonstrate the diversity of gender models and sexualities in Hinduism. These scholars include Gita Thadani, who attempted to uncover lesbian subtext in ancient Vedic and Sanskrit texts in "Sakhiyani: lesbian desire in ancient and modern India", and Ruth Vanita, who attempts "to locate spaces of same-sex intimacy in vernacular