Health

Understanding how health policies can either exacerbate or improve gender inequities and their intersections with other forms of inequity.

Condom on banana to depict comprehensive sex education.

Education, Health

More than Ever, We Need Comprehensive Sex Education

Comprehensive sex education is effective and supported by most Americans. Why is it not the standard in US public schools?

Caregiving Through a Disability Justice Lens

From income caps to inaccessible transit, ableism is built into our caregiving systems. It’s time to reform caregiving through a disability justice lens.

Trump attends meeting on human trafficking

Health, Human Rights, Development & Security, Labor, Family & Economic Security, Violence

Preventing Human Trafficking

US federal policy has over-emphasized prosecuting, and not preventing, human trafficking. It’s time for a public health approach to trafficking.

Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security, Uncategorized

Driving Toward Labor and Disability Justice

Passenger driving is often exploited labor. Recent coalitions between professional drivers and disability justice advocates suggest how workers and consumers can organize together.

Health, Leadership, Representation & Civil Rights

Pro-Life and Pro-Woman? Republican Women and AntiAbortion Legislation

Republican women lawmakers have increasingly become the face of antiabortion legislation across US states. Their “pro-woman” strategy claims that restricting abortion is in women’s best interest.

Education, Health

Gendered Racial Projects: Anti-Trans, Anti-CRT, and Anti-Abortion Legislation

Political attacks on trans youth, anti-racist school curriculum, and abortion share an ideological framework. Our political response should bring these fights together.

Health

Feminist Futures: Reimagining Arguments for Abortion

The demise of Roe presents an opportunity for abortion advocates to go on the offense. Feminists should reimagine arguments for abortion by embracing the emotional aspects of reproductive politics.

Health, Human Rights, Development & Security

Beyond Choice: Abortion Rights in Latin America

Latin American countries are moving toward abortion legalization. What can U.S. abortion rights activists learn from Latin American feminists?

Health

COVID-19 Exposed Racial Inequities in Reproductive Health

The pandemic exposed persistent racial inequalities in birth and maternal healthcare. These federal bills could address the problem.

Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security

Period Poverty in the United States: What the Law Should Do

For too many low-income people, menstrual products are inaccessible and unaffordable. Federal and state government should take action to solve period poverty.

Health

Abortion and Privacy

Comparing the fight for abortion rights in Germany and the U.S., suggests that the right to privacy was never enough to secure abortion access across class and racial lines.