The sad truth is that pregnant women with drug problems are overwhelmingly likely to be criminalized rather than getting the help they need.
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Weed for Period Pain? Yes, But I Want Equity in the Marijuana Industry Too
Last month, “Vanity Fair” announced that Whoopi Goldberg is co-launching a line of cannabis (marijuana) products in April that will provide holistic alternatives for menstrual cramps. Yes, you read that correctly.
‘Overworked and Underpaid’: On Organizing, Black Womanhood, and Self-Care
Awards do little when a culture of martyrdom—the discouragement to prioritize one’s own emotional and mental health—reigns in the lives of activists.
Congressional Briefing Puts U.S. Maternity on Exam Table
Maternal mortality is mainly associated with the developing world, but it’s also a growing threat to women in parts of the U.S. where living conditions are just as harsh.
‘I’m Not Slow’: Black Girls Tell Their Experiences of School ‘Pushout’ in New Book
For Black girls, the very schools charged with educating them reinforce and reproduce a dangerous, though often invisible, form of racial and gendered inequality.
Joy and Pain: One Film Director Thoughtfully Depicts the Spectrum of Childbirth in the Black Community
In “The American Dream,” quietly released last November, Black women share their pregnancy and childbirth experiences in their own voices, an intentional device.
Anti-Transgender Policies Go Beyond Bathroom Bills
I am very familiar with this fear.
Schools Spend More Money Policing Students Than Helping Them
We all want safe schools. But we won’t get them with guns, handcuffs, or increased use of detentions and suspensions.
I’m a black woman; that doesn’t mean I have a bomb in my hair
My hair is a critical part of my self-expression, my artistic practice, a celebration of my heritage and my connection to spirit. So when TSA runs their dirty-ass latex gloves through my hair, it’s an insult. It’s racist. And it needs to stop.
How Reality TV Tackles the Issue of Black Incarceration
“Even though I was physically free, mentally I was locked up too,” says Papoose. “Being forced to see my wife suffer every day, year after year, is a level of confinement by itself.”