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Catholic Students Speak Out: We Want Birth Control Access!

Published: February 24, 2012

The Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States are, for the most part, a hierarchy of privileged, white men attempting to make decisions regarding women’s health. That, in itself, is puzzling enough for many people. Most remarkably, we see that their recent opposition to birth control access blatantly conflicts with the needs of […]

Why I Won’t Do the Vagina Monologues

Published: February 24, 2012

I am the President of my university’s Feminist Student Alliance. Though ‘tis the season, we aren’t resuming the tradition of performing Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. Among the issues surrounding Vagina Monologues, I agree that it remains a hegemonic narrative of the “penis or vagina” binary. Humans are complex and we have complex expressions of reproductive organs […]

How to Host a Birth Control Clinic in 3 Easy Steps

Published: February 4, 2012

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Crossposted with permission from Law Students for Reproductive Justice. Fordham University is a Jesuit school. Because of this, students are not able to get birth control prescribed to them at the on-campus health centers. Fordham LSRJ wanted to provide Fordham students with a way to have access to doctors and birth control prescriptions. Here’s […]

Sticking it to the March for “Life”

Published: January 25, 2012

Monday the 23rd marked the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal for women in 1973 and a resounding triumph for the feminist cause. There are numerous events hosted in remembrance of this court case. The largest organized event is the annual March for Life where thousands of anti-choice […]

Defending Roe in Mississippi

Published: November 9, 2011

When I was asked to come to Mississippi about three weeks ago to organize students against Initiative 26 or the “personhood” Amendment I honestly did not know if we even had a chance of winning. The amendment could have made abortion illegal and banned most forms of birth control including the pill. With Mississippi being […]

“The Help” and the Rights of Domestic Workers

Published: August 26, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Originally posted on Moms Rising. This week, I went to see the movie The Help, based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett. The film focuses on the exploitation, abuse, and indignities endured by African American women who worked as house cleaners, childcare providers, and cooks in the homes […]

New Abortion Billboard in Atlanta Targets African American Leaders

Published: August 22, 2011

Not again. Another anti-abortion billboard was put on display by the Restoration Project in Atlanta last week, this time targeting African American leader Jesse Jackson. The billboard reads “What does it mean to be betrayed?” with “betrayed” written in blood-scripted letters. What’s even more insulting is The Restoration Project’s domain for their website: www.abortioninthehood.com. It […]

My Sistas Have Spoken! Now It’s Time to Act: The 2011 SisterSong “Let’s Talk About Sex” Conference

Published: July 21, 2011

Last week, Feminist Majority Foundation afforded me an amazing opportunity to attend the 2011 SisterSong “Let’s Talk About Sex: Love Legislation and Leadership” conference in Miami, Florida from July 13-17. SisterSong is a reproductive justice non-profit for women of color that is a conglomerate of 80 local and national grassroots organizations that target minorities. The […]

40 Years Later, The War on Drugs Must End

Published: June 14, 2011

This month commemorates the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s declaration of a “War on Drugs,” marking a concurrent increase in the number of Americans in U.S. prisons. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the War on Drugs, while costing the country roughly a trillion dollars over since its inception, has produced little […]

Happy Birthday Harvey, Your Victory Was Ours

Published: May 23, 2011

Yesterday marked the 2nd anniversary of Harvey Milk Day, and what would have been the 81st birthday of our country’s first openly gay politician. As a city supervisor for San Francisco, Milk successfully passed a gay rights ordinance that outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation, the first of its kind and a signifier of change […]