Gender, Race & Place in Minnesota

Important debates are unfolding about the best policy approach to transactional sex. What policy steps could we take to reduce harm for impacted communities right now?

It’s not enough to invite impacted communities to the table, community research requires building a new table. The researchers behind the Minnesota Missing and Murdered African-American Women Task Force provide a model.

Child care is too expensive, while providers are underpaid. We need sustained public investment to fix both problems.

The pandemic has laid bare the racial and gender disparities of our social priorities.

Sexual violence is deeply entrenched and rooted in racial and economic inequalities. Ending it will require social, cultural, and political change.