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#UsToo: We Must Expand the Conversation on Sexual Violence
There’s a continued obsession with cisgender white women’s purity that places their safety as the crux of these conversations.
A Senator Speaks Out Against Confederate Monuments… in 1910
Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol
Back to School (-to-Prison Pipeline)
For parents of children with emotional disabilities, sending our kids to school is a dangerous exercise in Russian roulette with the school-to-prison pipeline.
Black birth workers support sacred birth and self-determination for Black mamas
Black women are uniquely able to better support each other in birth because we experience and understand the impacts of racism on our relationships, to our bodies, and our ability to self-determine our health care.
White Supremacy and Transmisogyny are Cousins
I don’t get to pick and choose which force is more evil when my life and the lives of my sisters are at risk.
Forward Together Statement on Charlottesville, VA
Lately, I’ve been sitting with the image of a world on fire. Climate change,…
What Black Lives Matter Organizers Are Doing to Fight White Supremacy at Every Level
White supremacy is a web of violent and abusive behaviors bolstered by white nationalists, racist elected officials, violent police and law enforcement, corporate money, and you.
Ways to love someone through their pregnancy plan
Never shy away from asking for help, but also don’t shy away from your brilliance and ability to love a loved one through pregnancy. You’ve both got this.
The Right to (Black) Life
Far too often, compassion for black lives doesn’t extend beyond the womb or to the black women carrying that womb. Too few tears are shed for the people killed by police violence. Reproductive justice is about the resolve to raise our families on our own terms, safely.