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.
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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.
RJ 101 Timeline
The Reproductive Justice 101 visual timeline covers the resistance of communities, policies and programs that helped or harmed access to reproductive justice. Updated and shortened version of materials originally created by Western States Center. Bilingual English/Spanish.
Who’s Who in Virginia Politics
Civic engagement means getting everyday folks involved in the decisions that affect our families and communities. Election season is an especially important time for us to speak up, and there are many ways we can all get involved in the process, regardless of our citizenship status or whether we can vote.
Abortion ‘reversal’: the latest sham from anti-choice activists trying to end women’s rights
At the core of “abortion reversal” is a desire to undermine the high level of decision certainty among people seeking the service.
Breastfeeding America: What We Know
When I look at black people’s present health outcomes I understand that they are based on structural inequities then and now, and directly linked to the ways that racism makes us sick.