The dignity, citizenship and humanity of young people have always been treated as unimportant or collateral in culture wars and both national and geopolitical conflicts. CW: r*pe, sexual assault By Kylie Cheung With the new school year around the corner, the Delta variant spreading rapidly among the unvaccinated, and no guidelines still on if and...
Tag: reproductive health
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Re-Framing Reproductive Rights and Justice: A Reading List
The debate over reproductive healthcare and bodily autonomy continues as the possibility of another conservative supreme court justice puts Roe v Wade at risk. This week, mainstream media’s news cycle was overwhelmingly focused on Christian Cult Karen’s supreme court nomination hearings. The fascists in the white house and senate are pushing through her nomination proceedings...
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As Long As American Settler Colonialism Exists, Forced Sterilizations Will Too
Forced sterilizations are the bedrock of settler-colonial nation-states and are required to maintain violences against Black and Indigenous peoples. It hasn’t even been a month since ICE made the news for being a genocidal and racist institution, and yet, here we are again. This time, whistleblower Dawn Wooten revealed that an ICE facility in Georgia...
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For Black And Native Women, Doulas Can Prevent Deaths
Black and Native doulas are already addressing maternal and post-partum healthcare inequities through their community work. Disclaimer: At various points throughout this article, the author uses gendered language. This is because most studies done about birthing people only include or refer to cisgender women. Whenever possible, gender-neutral language is used. By Nylah Burton For Black...
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Reproductive Control is About Far More Than “Women’s Bodies”
Insisting that this is only about “women’s bodies” erases a whole host of other things that abortion rights are inherently about. This essay contains mention on r/pe and some discussion of reproductive and state violences Biopower and Biopolitics – social and political power over life, when biological factors become targets of political intervention Necropolitics –...
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The Fight Against Reproductive Rights Targets the Most Marginalized People—Here is How You Can Help
Those disproportionately targeted by state violence for autonomy over their own bodies are fighting for reproductive rights and have been for a long time. “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” This quote from Audre Lorde (“Learning from the Sixties,” 1982) has been rattling around in...
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Alyssa Milano’s Call for a Sex Strike is Peak White Feminism
How does it help people who need safe access to abortion to further limit our sexual autonomy? There is a constant, unrelenting war against women, LGBTQ+ folks and Black, indigenous and people of color, the poor and working class in the United States. Part of the efforts to directly harm us and push back against...
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What You Need to Know About Abortion Doulas and Their Vital Work
Abortion doulas work to normalize the termination process from start to finish. While most people have heard of birth doulas and generally understand their support role during pregnancy, labor, and after, very few have heard of abortion doulas and know even less about what they do to support people terminating pregnancies. Gina Martinez Valentín first...
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Why I Fainted Trying To Use A Tampon For The First Time
Because of the stigma and myth of periods being dirty, I wanted to distance myself from imagined uncleanliness. I compromised my comfort, but it did not come without a valuable lesson. By Rachael Edwards We all have stories that we tuck away into the crevices of our inner-most beings in hopes to have them never...
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We Need To Stop Whitewashing Discussions About PCOS
How can we create a more inclusive discussion about the very common endocrine disorder, PCOS? By Toni-Marie Gallardo Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine disorder that affects 10% of people with ovaries. It can lead to ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, problems with ovulation, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. It is caused by the body’s...