Amy Oppenheimer Looking For Justice

About

A hippie, activist, lesbian, feminist, lawyer, judge’s search for identity & justice. The at times humorous and at times deadly serious show begins when Amy moves to Berkeley in the early 1970’s during second wave feminism. Amy finds her identity as a lesbian feminist, goes to law school to fight for women’s rights, represents coal miners and battered women in Appalachia and returns to California to open a lesbian feminist law practice. She is representing women who had been sexually harassed – pre-Anita Hill – but keeps seeing all sides of things, becomes an administrative judge and starts a law firm to do mediation and impartial investigations of harassment and discrimination. She adopts two children – both biracial – and experiences racism up close and personal. In the meantime, she can’t stop revisiting her first experience with the criminal justice system in 1970 when she accompanied a friend to a rape trial. Her (white) friend had been raped by a (Black) boyfriend. The friend wanted him to get help, rather than serve a decade in prison. This restorative justice solution was not an option. Amy wonders about her role in the verdict and if real justice is possible in an unjust world. Content Advisories: The content of this production includes topics and events that may be triggering to some people including sexual violence/rape, sexual harassment, racism and familial violence.