After being frustrated by the coverage of Roe v. Wade's 40th anniversary and the term "reproductive justice" being thrown around with no context or critical discussion, I decided to write about mainstream media's challenges in talking about reproductive justice, and what our community can do to change that. Sally Kohn, Fox News commentator, said to me at a WAM! NYC mentoring event that it's much more fun (and productive) to funnel your anger publicly via commentary rather than yelling at the TV. Message received.
Thus, I wrote this piece and interviewed some of my favorite badass activists and advocates to see what they thought about how we can use reproductive justice frameworks now that "pro-choice" is passe. Thank you to RH Reality Check, especially Jodi Jacobson, for giving me the space to write this; and to Aimee Thorne-Thomsen, Andrea Plaid, Eesha Pandit, Miriam Perez, Shanelle Matthews and Jasmine Burnett for their words, thoughts and conversation.
Here's an excerpt but you can read the full piece here:
"This debate reminds me of how liberals scoff at the irrelevance of the GOP, with its narrow platform that doesn’t represent our diversifying country. The reproductive rights, reproductive health, and “pro-choice” movements could take a note from that critique."
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