Shifting Culture
Young people are at the forefront of transforming how we view Reproductive Justice. We empower young people with the tools and platforms to talk about these critical issues in authentic ways.
Changing the Story, Starting with its Authors
We are changing the narrative.
Young people have an invaluable perspective. Our voices are essential — not just for the future, but for the present. But we’re too often overlooked, in favor of familiar stories, perspectives, and faces.
URGE teaches young people how to amplify their voices to be heard and respected as authorities in an increasingly crowded media landscape.
Key Projects
URGE’s culture change programming equips young people with a platform, as well as education in how to conduct media interviews, how to write for blogs and traditional media outlets, and the latest techniques on using social media to amplify their work.
The Latest
Meet Georgia Dusk: A Narrative Project that is Preserving Black Birth Workers Stories in the South.
Nov 14, 2024
/ Victor O.
/ Our Folks Blog
When I think about some of the most transformative work happening in the movement for reproductive justice, I think about two memory workers, Dartricia Rollins and Ashby Combahee. Since 2021, Rollins and Combahee started Georgia Dusk: Southern Liberation Oral History Project. Georgia Dusk is an intergenerational counter-narrative project that uses oral history to actively challenge the …
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“Why” is a Weak Question
Nov 14, 2024
/ Myriam-Fernanda AD
/ Our Folks Blog
Larger systemic anxieties are at the heart of mine and others fear for having kids. ‘Why are people having fewer babies?’ A question posed more and more in recent years, as though the world population isn’t in the billions. In a UNC study from the 90s, a number of European countries were observed as they offered direct …
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To birth or not to birth? We will never have a say.
Oct 29, 2024
/ Myriam-Fernanda AD
/ Our Folks Blog
How the intersection of forced sterilization and forced birth leaves Latinas at a standstill. In an attempt to cope with a paradox of forced birth and forced sterilization, there seems to be an impenetrable standstill. Not only are political factors like immigration and access to abortion uniquely affecting Latin migrant populations, but also dangerous cultural …
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