Em-URGE-ing Voices

Your urgent thoughts, urging action

Posted by Paul

Public Assistance is Reproductive Justice

April 9, 2015

Photo by Flickr user “chrstphre” Recently, my home state of Kansas passed a law that places several restrictions on the usage of b… Read more »

Posted by Tristan

What are the Politics of Desirability?

April 8, 2015

“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in th… Read more »

Posted by Robyn

Abandon Girl Hate

April 7, 2015

From OpenClipart user “worker” Last night, with no explanation, I walked by a girl who I instantly didn’t like. It might have been… Read more »

Posted by Kadijah

Reflecting on #BlackGirlsRock

April 6, 2015

View image | gettyimages.com Last night, I watched the airing of the Black Girls Rock Award Show on BET. It was lovely seeing the… Read more »

Posted by Caitlin

The Bechdel Test for Music

April 3, 2015

Photo of Kim Gordon by Bertrand from Paris. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons You might be familiar with something us… Read more »

Posted by Paul

Flyover States Matter

April 2, 2015

Photo by: B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net (cc by-nc-nd) With all of the recent news coverage of Indiana’s new “religious freedo… Read more »

Posted by Tristan

Purvi Patel’s Imprisonment and the Implications of Anti-Choice Laws

April 1, 2015

Yesterday, thirty-three year old Purvi Patel of Indiana was sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment on the charges of feticide a… Read more »

Posted by Kadijah

7 Documentaries About Abortion You Can Watch Right Now

March 31, 2015

View image | gettyimages.com Because Women’s Herstory Month is coming to a close and because I am an URGE Student Journalist, I de… Read more »

PreviousNext