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18 And Clueless: How California’s Proposed Affirmative Consent Law Could Have Helped Me

Feb 13, 2014 / Summer / Our Folks
I remember my very first week of college, my first real night at a college party. Newly independent and recently single, I was determined to … Read More

What the Drop in the Abortion Rate Won't Tell You

Feb 04, 2014 / Summer / Our Folks
It’s official, America. According to the newest study on abortion rates from the Guttmacher Institute, the national abortion rate is now in decline.  According to … Read More

Make Roe Real: How I Make My Personal Life Political

Jan 21, 2014 / Summer / Our Folks
This week marks the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the famous Supreme Court Case that “guaranteed” the right to abortion to American women. But … Read More

Project Unbreakable and New Young Organizing

Jan 14, 2014 / Summer / Our Folks
Sometimes social justice can be exhausting. Trying to convince the general public that issues like abortion, birth control, and sexual violence aren’t only important for … Read More

Why Should This 21-Year-Old Woman Care about Paternity Leave?

Jan 07, 2014 / Summer / Our Folks
So often the conversations around reproductive justice focus solely on what happens to a person and their (sometimes potential) fetus before birth – contraception, abortion … Read More

Five Colleges, One Definition, and Whole Lot of Complications: How My College Consortium Addresses Sexual Assault on Campus

Dec 17, 2013 / Summer / Our Folks
Once or twice a month, my inbox has the misfortune of receiving a “Notification of Sexual Assault/Misconduct” from my college’s administration, detailing a recent assault … Read More

Roe v. Wade, Young People and the Supreme Court

Dec 10, 2013 / Summer / Our Folks
ThinkProgress recently published a fantastic yet depressing report on the Supreme Court’s gradual and subtle weakening of Roe v. Wade which has effectively nullified the … Read More

You Have the Right to Pleasure

Nov 19, 2013 / Summer / Our Folks
When I was in middle and high school, sex education was short, uncomfortable, and hardly comprehensive.  I remember sitting in a classroom with about 30 … Read More

We’re All Anti-Rape, But Are We All Anti Anti-Rape Wear?

Nov 12, 2013 / Summer / Our Folks
The feminist internet blew up last week in response to AR Wear, a company that purports to offer a product “that will offer better protection … Read More

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