Em-URGE-ing Voices

Your urgent thoughts, urging action

Posted by Phoenix Fogarty

Alabama Amendment 2 and Other Trigger Bans: A Poem

November 1, 2018

They’re coming They’ll say they don’t want to control our bodies They just want to protect the innocent The pure, the precious, th… Read more »

Posted by Anna Khan

Freedom and Power – A Scary Combination

October 31, 2018

In honor of Halloween, I want to dive into a particular idea presented in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I started watc… Read more »

Posted by Reilly Wieland

Are You Doing Your Work? Understanding the True Meaning of Reproductive Justice

October 29, 2018

Today’s feminists have a tendency to throw around words like “intersectionality,” but rarely seem to understand the complexities o… Read more »

Posted by Anna Khan

Call (Out) Your Senators

October 17, 2018

When Elizabeth Warren released a statement on her recent DNA test to confirm her Native American heritage, it took me back to elem… Read more »

Posted by Dené Dryden

Disney’s Casting of Johnny Depp Hurts Abuse Survivors

October 16, 2018

When we consume media, particularly media produced by individuals like musicians and artists, we have a choice to make: do we appr… Read more »

Posted by Erica Gonzalez

Kava-nope.

October 10, 2018

The appointment of Kavanaugh is an injustice. He is not a man of the people. He is a major enemy of LGBTQ folks, women, workers, i… Read more »

Posted by Clarissa Brooks

A Look At The Wins: Shackling in Prisons

October 5, 2018

I grew up in Charlotte, NC in a neighborhood called Greirtown, known in the early 2000’s as one of the most dangerous neighborhood… Read more »

Posted by Anna Khan

Go Vote

October 3, 2018

It’s time to face the truth: our government isn’t going to care about us until we force them to. And by us, I mean every person re… Read more »

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