Abortion is a hot-button issue as well as extremely emotional for many. Roe v. Wade (1973) itself says that “We forthwith acknowledge our awareness of the sensitive and emotional nature of the abortion controversy, of the vigorous opposing views, even among physicians, and of the deep and seemingly absolute convictions that the subject inspires…” We’re […]
The Climate Movement Needs to Create More Safe Spaces for Indigenous Women
September 20, hundreds of thousands of students from schools across the country participated in the Global Climate Strike. The strike, led by climate activist Greta Thunberg, started summer of last year near the Swedish parliament to urge world leaders to take immediate action to combat climate change. What Thunberg started as a one-person strike in […]
Will the Real Abortion Expert Please Stand Up?
Thursday, November 14, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing to examine how state policies impact access to comprehensive reproductive health services, including abortion. Congressman William Lacy Clay from Missouri requested the hearing after reports that the state’s Department of Health and Senior Services had been keeping a spreadsheet tracking the menstrual cycles […]
We Need an Intersectional, Not Just an International, Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women
CW: rape, transphobia According to the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual of psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of […]
Remembering Rosie
Rosie Jimenez died of complications from an illegal abortion on October of 1977 in McAllen, Texas a little over a year after the Hyde Amendment was passed. The Hyde Amendment is a dangerous ban on federal funding in the form of Medicaid for abortions except in the case of rape, incest, or if carrying the pregnancy […]
Climate Protests Should Become Our Normal
On Friday, September 20, millions of young people and allies around the world participated in the Global Climate Strikes. The purpose of these strikes was to tell adults across the world to get it together and do something to address climate change. This is no easy task, and will definitely require a massive overhaul of […]
Feminist Movie Night: 6 Movies to Uplift & Inspire
Whether you’re looking for some inspiration in your professional or personal life, these movies have got what you need. Featuring characters that set their mind to a goal or mission and don’t stop–no matter what gets in their way–these movies make for a perfect feminist movie night when you’re in need of some motivation (say, […]
Congressional Roundtable: Maternal Health & Mortality
Last week we went to a congressional hearing for the Committee on Energy and Commerce for HR 1897, HR 1551, HR 2902 and HR 2602, four bills that aim to address the maternal health and mortality crisis in America. During the hearing, expert witnesses testified and representatives from across the country gave their thoughts and […]
Why It’s Not Enough To Be a “Blue” State: Organizing for Abortion Access in Rhode Island
“Did you know that we receive an F rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America, designating us as state with restricted access to abortion?” I asked, struggling to raise my voice above the steady hum of other students chatting with eager first-year students at my college’s annual activities fair. Packed into my school’s gymnasium along with roughly […]
Us, “The Children of FGM”
CW: female genital mutilation Us, “the children of FGM.” In grade seven, two Somali diaspora girls were in our class. One day they told us—all the girls in the class—that they were not circumcised and did not know what circumcision was. We all looked at one another as if someone had committed a crime. We […]
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