Audre Lorde once stated that if you define yourself for yourself then you leave no room for other people’s interpretation of you.
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Straddling the both / and experience
I am both a person of color AND a woman. I am both queer AND working class. I am always both/and without having the luxury of disregarding my multiple realities, which I don’t want to nor should I be forced to.
A victory — and the road ahead
We did it! We – ACLU, LSPC, ACOG, CYWD, the many organizational supporters and nearly 6,000 individuals who took action – passed a law prohibiting leg irons, waist chains, and handcuffs behind the back from being used on pregnant women in California jails and prisons!
Keeping Our Families Strong
A handbook for nail salon workers and owners to shift toward less toxic products and practices to ensure that their businesses are ready for the transition to a green economy, as well as to protect the health of their families.
Didn’t You Forget Me? A Queer Black Feminist’s Analysis of the Black Marriage Debate
My question is: why do people get to collectively comment on my body, my sex, my family, my choices, and my life circumstances?
Building Strong Families
A two-sided brochure to complement the Transforming API Communities: Tools for Sexuality Education toolkit. A quick and easy tool for parents and agencies who work with parents to use to start the conversation about sex and our bodies.
Movement Building Indicators
Volume 6 of the EMERJ Momentum Series is a cutting-edge tool that supports reproductive justice organizations in their strategic thinking around planning and assessing their movement building work.
Transforming API Communities
A one-of-a-kind resource for supporting Asian and Pacific Islander parents and caregivers in engaging in dialogue and action around sexuality education.
Looking Both Ways
Volume 5 of the EMERJ Momentum Series, published in partnership with the New Orleans Women’s Health and Justice Initiative, examines the experiences of women working in low-wage toxic industries with a new framework for understanding how to mobilize grassroots communities around climate change.
Una Nueva Visión
Volume 4 of the EMERJ Momentum Series is a Spanish language and cultural translation of ACRJ’s 2005 reproductive justice framework, A New Vision.