Gender & LGBTQIA+

556 posts

Supportive families help gender euphoria bloom

Whether biological or chosen, family is a crucial component of what helps affirm trans and genderqueer people of color

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10 Min
By: James Salanga, Rae Deng

How PCOS patients are affected by the fall of Roe

PCOS patients face more barriers within a medical institution that already does not provide adequate reproductive care

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6 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown

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

Here’s everything you need to know about abortion funds, post-Roe

Abortion funds are in the headlines, and there are some things they want people to know

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5 Min
By: Reina Sultan

Abortion clinics in conservative states are moving out of state to provide care

As soon as the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case last year, abortion clinics in conservative states knew moving would be unpreventable. Since then, the nightmares of clinic owners and abortion providers have come true, as abortion bans have been implemented

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

For Black women and femmes, the fall of Roe is rooted in a history of violence

True reproductive justice for Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people requires an intergenerational and intersectional lens

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4 Min
By: Toni Wilson, Breya M. Johnson

Sex workers continue to organize despite political hostility and broken promises

Sex workers face hostility, from electoral politics to the dehumanizing carceral state, but continue to organize with and for each other

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6 Min
By: Adrie Rose

National Right to Life model legislation criminalizes information on abortions

Journalists would be directly targeted by this legislation, which criminalizes freedom of speech

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Privacy concerns go beyond period tracking apps in a ‘reproductive police state’

Police don’t surveil period tracking apps, but that data could potentially be used against a person if they were reported to law enforcement

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

The nation’s tampon shortage is affecting low-income and BIPOC the most

Menstrual products hit their lowest availability this year

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4 Min
By: Alicia Gajraj

Abolitionists push back against New York City’s proposed plan for a ‘feminist jail’

Appropriating feminist rhetoric in support of jail expansion ignores the underlying violence of incarceration

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12 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The same companies offering abortion travel benefits are donating to anti-abortion politicians

As corporations tout new policies to support people seeking abortion care, advocates cite privacy concerns and ask whether companies can truly be trusted

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

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