Em-URGE-ing Voices

Your urgent thoughts, urging action

Posted by Erica Gonzalez

Texans Obtaining an Abortion Could Face Capital Punishment

April 18, 2019

Separation of Church and State was created for a reason At 3am Tuesday morning, self-proclaimed “Pro-Lifers” in Texas passed a bil… Read more »

Posted by Anna Khan

Climate Change Is Not, and Never Has Been an Elitist Issue

April 8, 2019

Representative Cortez said it well herself, but I want to dive into more of why climate change is not an elitist issue at all–mor… Read more »

Posted by Erica Gonzalez

Rosie’s Law

April 1, 2019

Rosaura “Rosie” Jimenez was a young woman in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas who died obtaining an unsafe abortion. She could… Read more »

Posted by Deana Ayers

Reproductive Justice, Social Work, and Me

March 25, 2019

I struggled to write my first article for this blog, and I think it was because I didn’t take the time to introduce myself and wha… Read more »

Posted by Anna Khan

Remember These Muslims, Remember Islamophobia

March 18, 2019

Ashraf Ali was known to have a quiet laugh. Husne Ara Parvin was trying to save her husband, Farid Uddin, who was in a wheelchair…. Read more »

Posted by Anna Khan

Five Movies of 2018 Better Than Green Book

February 28, 2019

At the Oscars last weekend, there were a lot of historic wins. Black Panther won three Oscars and is the first movi… Read more »

Posted by Erica Gonzalez

Fast Fashion: Unsustainable, Racist, NOT Cute

February 28, 2019

Landfills- where most fast fashion ends up I want to stress that all responsibility for climate change should be placed on corpora… Read more »

Posted by Deana Ayers

Pay Your Organizers Please

February 26, 2019

For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been seeing an advertisement on Twitter for the same organizing fellowship. The organization promises t… Read more »

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