Tina Vásquez

Tina Vásquez

182 posts
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

The adoption and foster care systems demonize poverty

While each adoption is different, the adoption and foster care systems reproduce white supremacy and classism by labeling poverty as neglect and using it to justify family separation

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12 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

Adoption abolition envisions a world without ‘organized abandonment’

The same systems of violence that incarcerate and displace marginalized communities deny their reproductive freedom

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14 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
Adoption is both a personal experience and a system
Gender & LGBTQIA+

Adoption is both a personal experience and a system

Adoption discourse must allow space for adoptees’ individual experiences and the structural harms leading to and caused by adoption

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8 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
Reproductive justice must recognize adoption as violence
Gender & LGBTQIA+

Reproductive justice must recognize adoption as violence

Narratives of gratefulness harm adoptees and make it difficult to talk about experiences with violent histories and systems

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10 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

Reproductive justice must include adoptee voices

Adoptees are intimately familiar with the same systems of white supremacist violence that make reproductive justice necessary

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
How human rights and immigration advocates are challenging discriminatory utility policies in the South
Immigration

How human rights and immigration advocates are challenging discriminatory utility policies in the South

Advocates in Georgia are continuing to combat policies that deny utility services to people without Social Security numbers

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez, Makaelah Walters
Reproductive justice has the blueprint for post-Roe America, but are we ready for it?
Gender & LGBTQIA+

Reproductive justice has the blueprint for post-Roe America, but are we ready for it?

At Let’s Talk About Sex, the largest reproductive justice conference in the nation, attendees celebrated movement wins and strategized for a better tomorrow

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
Latino workers in t-shirts and casual long-sleeve shirts wear cloth masks and neon green baseball caps as they walk through a
Economy & Workers' Rights

It’s past time to celebrate migrant-led labor organizing

For decades, the labor movement has treated undocumented workers as “unorganizable.” Now these workers are doing some of the most innovative labor organizing in the U.S.

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13 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
Georgia Bureau of Investigations confirms it is looking into allegations of sexual assault at Stewart Detention Center
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Georgia Bureau of Investigations confirms it is looking into allegations of sexual assault at Stewart Detention Center

After the stories of survivors detained at the Lumpkin, Georgia facility went public, GBI told Prism it is looking into alleged criminal misconduct by a male nurse

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15 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
Department of Homeland Security officially ends ‘Remain in Mexico,’ but many migrants remain at risk
Immigration

Department of Homeland Security officially ends ‘Remain in Mexico,’ but many migrants remain at risk

The program forced asylum-seekers to live in unsafe conditions in Mexico while they awaited processing

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6 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez, Tina Vásquez
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

Abortion funds have been inundated with donations and volunteer requests, but some are still struggling to survive

At least eight Texas abortion funds have been forced to pause operations, causing a ripple effect for out-of-state groups now struggling to support a rising tide of patients

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15 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
a pro-abortion protester holds a green sign with black-and-white cut-outs of the faces of Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Amy
Gender & LGBTQIA+

The anti-choice movement won’t stop at criminalizing abortion

Anti-abortion advocates already seek to erode other rights and will continue casting a wider net to criminalize abortion support networks

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6 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

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