Category: health

Reproductive Justice and the Policing of Black Bodies

Our political culture continues to perpetuate this idea that motherhood is a class privilege, reserved for women with enough funds to provide their kids, while simultaneously eroding the very democratic notion of freedom of choice.

WOMEN WILL ROAR: FGM In the United States

More than half a million women and girls in the US alone are at risk of female genital mutilation, with over half a million living with it in the US today.

WOMEN WILL ROAR: Maternal Mortality Rates

The US has the highest maternal death rate in the “developed” world.” On top of everything else in the world, the safety of our mothers shouldn’t be compromised as well.