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Sharmila Lodhia published a paper titled "Rewriting Race: Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the Power of Dissent," in Women's Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal. This study examines how dissenting opinions authored by Justice Sotomayor expand the rhetoric of race at the Supreme Court. Rewriting, or re-righting race, as it were, involves adopting a voice as a rhetor that speaks back to the customary obfuscation of race at the Supreme Court by inserting into the record an intersectional account of race that encompasses its affective, experiential, and embodied dimensions across a range of jurisprudential domains.