Reproduction
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Op-Ed: When A Mother Chooses the Pump
By Swati Marquez Three days after I gave birth — following 54 hours of labor, including eighteen hours of IV fluids that left me (and...
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Don Lemon and the Vilification of Unwed Mothers
By Rabi’a Hakima The intersection between racism and sexism is where a brown-skinned male news anchor can, from his privileged position of maleness, propose to...
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What Activists and Advocates Taught Us About the Future of Reproductive Justice
By Ed Goldman, Alexandra Minna Stern, Timothy Johnson, and Lisa Harris of the Program in Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, University of Michigan In spring...
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An Open Love Note to My Son: On Mourning, Love, and Black Motherhood
By Christen Smith Raising Black children – female and male – in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If...
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3 Reasons Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Moral Mondays in North Carolina
“Grotesque” is the word the New York Times used in an editorial today to describe North Carolina politics. I can think of some others. In...
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Feminists We Love: Sandra Fluke
Although best known for her advocacy for gender equality and reproductive justice, for the last decade, Sandra Fluke has devoted her career to public interest...
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Op-Ed: Legal Birth Control: An Overlooked Milestone
By Annet Ruiter This month marks the 48th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut, which struck down a state law that...
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Op-Ed: Debating Abortion
By Wanda Kolomyjec I find myself debating women, and I am weary. They speak of their belief that abortion might be murder, that it is...
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Are All the Women Still White? Kermit Gosnell, “Back Alley” Abortions, and the Politics of Motherhood
By j.n. salters Last week, Kermit Gosnell—the African-American “late-term abortionist” who delivered live babies and then stuck scissors in the backs of their necks and...
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Best Laid Plans
By Dara Tafakari Mathis I am a punch line of a black woman and my pride is bruised. You will laugh later, I promise myself, but...
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“Somebody’s Children”: A Conversation with Laura Briggs
By Kelly Sharron and Abraham Weil Laura Briggs is the chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. We...
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A Love Note to Black Mothers on Mother's Day
By j.n. salters This letter is for my mother. Our mothers. Grandmothers. Aunts. Sisters. All of the other black women who continue to raise black...
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Dar Luz: Shedding Light on Birth and Reproductive Health for Latinas
By Ynanna Djehuty Latinas in the United States are facing many of the same concerns regarding birthing and reproductive health care as our African-American sisters....
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Across Difference, Toward Liberation: An Introduction to TFW’s Forum on Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminism
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Heather Laine Talley Perhaps in this twenty-four hour news cycle culture, the horrid sexist and racist sexualization of nine-year old...
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Op-Ed: Inconceivable! Detaching Motherhood from Femininity
By Nicole Verdes Last week, Isabella Dutton, a 57-year-old mother of two in the United Kingdom, wrote a first-person story for the Daily Mail wherein she...
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On Guns, Fetuses, and “Pro-Life” Hypocrisy
Last week, while grieving parents of the children killed in Newtown were tearfully urging gun control measures, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.) boldly launched—to well deserved...
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Op-Ed: Egg Freezing: WTF?*
By Lynn M. Morgan and Janelle S. Taylor Marcia Inhorn’s recent CNN commentary, “Women, consider freezing your eggs” is certainly right about one thing: “Trying...
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Radical Birthwork as an Act of Resistance
By Ynanna Djehuty I like to open with definitions. The usage of words and knowing the weight they hold is important to all discourse, regardless...
