Via Black Women's Health Imperative. #BlackHERstory: Linda Goler Blount and the Black Women’s Health Imperative Published: February 4, 2015 The Black Women’s Health Imperative is the only national organization focused on improving and promoting the wellness of black women and girls in the U.S.
Via SPARK. #BlackHERstory: Tamika Middleton and SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW Published: February 3, 2015 SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW is a reproductive justice organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, that advocates for policies that promote access to a range of family planning services, abortion, and sexual health education for women and youth of color in the state of Georgia.
Via SisterReach. #BlackHERstory: Cherisse Scott and SisterReach Published: February 2, 2015 SisterReach is a grassroots advocacy organization founded in 2011 by Cherisse Scott that provides a framework of reproductive justice to women and girls in the Memphis, Tennessee, and surrounding Mid South area.
Via Miss Universe. My University Hosted The “Miss Universe” Pageant, And It Was Harmful To Its Students Published: January 27, 2015 For a university that proclaims a “Worlds Ahead” mantra, it was certainly able to retrograde itself to a “Worlds Behind” university by using funds from the women’s athletics programs and reinforcing ethnocentricity and Eurocentric beauty standards to its diverse community in hosting Miss Universe.
Get Into It: “Organize, Reflect, Act: A Day of Action for Justice in Louisiana” Published: January 15, 2015 We’re against the AFA. We’re upset that our state government has chosen to align with them, and we’re upset that our university is allowing it to be done on our campus.
Via Nancy Aragon. Immigrant Rights Are A Feminist Issue: What President Obama’s Immigration Announcement Means For Me Published: November 24, 2014 I grew up in a mixed-status family with anxiety of the possibility that some of my cousins, uncles, and aunts could easily be deported back to Mexico or El Salvador and fear that I would never see them again.
Via Jenny Warburg. Recap: Ms. Wonder Awards Luncheon Honored Grassroots Feminist Activists Published: November 20, 2014 Yesterday, Ms. Magazine and Ms. publisher, the Feminist Majority Foundation, celebrated grassroots feminist activism at the 2014 Ms. Wonder Awards Luncheon and Ceremony.
Via Dream Defenders. We Were Arrested For Protesting Police Brutality Published: August 22, 2014 “Before I could even cry, scream or process the murder of Michael Brown, my body went into autopilot to organize a response and a call for justice.”
Via FMF. Recap: I Learned A Lot About Power at Yesterday’s National Moment of Silence Published: August 15, 2014 There, in the heart of DC, surrounded by a thousand people who were angry and fed up and devastated and united, I had witnessed and participated in what it means to organize.
Via FreeQuency. Violence, the Black Body, And Reproductive Justice Published: August 14, 2014 When I first heard about the murder of Trayvon Martin, I was livid. I remember the searing heat I felt at yet another black person becoming a disposable character in the American narrative of violence against black bodies.