Elizabeth Brico

Elizabeth Brico

Elizabeth Brico is a journalism fellow with TalkPoverty where she covers economic justice, and a freelance writer whose work typically covers social justice, public health, and the ways in which they

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Crime, Reform & Abolition

The child welfare system is another form of discriminatory policing

The sky was overcast but the air was warm and the streets were awash with sunlight as protesters gathered in tank tops, shorts, and skirts to march through Brooklyn in the early summer of 2020. Many of them held cardboard signs scripted with black sharpie slogans: “Black families matter,” “Dismantle

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5 Min
By: Elizabeth Brico
The future of LGBTQ+ families is currently with the Supreme Court
Gender & LGBTQIA+

The future of LGBTQ+ families is currently with the Supreme Court

On Nov. 4, while most of the country was focused on the election results, the Supreme Court heard opening arguments for a case that could begin the process of closing the doors to adoption for same-sex couples. LGBTQ+ activists have been fighting hard for adoption access for same-sex couples for

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4 Min
By: Elizabeth Brico
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News

Limited technology access prevents kids in the child welfare system from connecting with parents

On the morning of May 14, advocates and supporters from around the country dialed into a virtual hearing taking place in Illinois. The argument was over a blanket decision made by the state department of human services banning in-person supervised visitation between parents and children in foster care. Many of

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6 Min
By: Elizabeth Brico
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

CPS took my kids. Low access to evidence-based addiction treatment keeps families like mine apart

Losing a child to state custody is akin to a haunting. Only in this case, you are on both sides of it. You are forced to haunt your own self, shadow-walking with your life—not fully in it, not all the way gone—scrambling to complete the series of events

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8 Min
By: Elizabeth Brico

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