Em-URGE-ing Voices

Your urgent thoughts, urging action

Posted by Victor O

Meet Georgia Dusk: A Narrative Project that is Preserving Black Birth Workers Stories in the South.

November 14, 2024

When I think about some of the most transformative work happening in the movement for reproductive justice, I think about two memo… Read more »

Posted by Myriam-Fernanda AD

“Why” is a weak question

November 14, 2024

Larger systemic anxieties are at the heart of mine and others fear for having kids. ‘Why are people having fewer babies?’ A questi… Read more »

Posted by Myriam-Fernanda AD

To birth or not to birth? We will never have a say.

October 29, 2024

 How the intersection of forced sterilization and forced birth leaves Latinas at a standstill. In an attempt to cope with a parado… Read more »

Posted by Larissa M

Reproductive Justice in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Quest for Transnational Solidarity

October 10, 2024

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Reproductive Justice (RJ)  movement in the United States, a pivotal moment in the ongo… Read more »

Posted by Larissa M

Beyond Citizenship: The Overlooked Struggles of Undocumented People in the Fight for Reproductive Rights

October 9, 2024

As the 2024 election cycle approaches, reproductive rights and immigration are again at the forefront of national politics. Yet, b… Read more »

Posted by Myriam-Fernanda AD

The trials and tribulation of tubal ligation

October 4, 2024

Reproductive health costs $15 billion more for those with a vagina in the U.S. The number of health visits in the span of one year… Read more »

Posted by Victor O

Let’s call it what it is: Afratransfemmicide 

September 17, 2024

[Content Warning: This article mentions anti-Blackness, transphobia, transmisogyny, violence against Black trans women and femmes,… Read more »

Posted by Myriam-Fernanda AD

My at-home pads are not revolutionary

September 17, 2024

 A lookback at period products and how we got here. The torn-up cotton shirt my mother so graciously volunteered began to take the… Read more »

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