Health

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

Education, Health, Leadership, Representation & Civil Rights

American Attitudes Toward Transgender Rights

Anti-trans legislation is increasing in state legislatures. Do Americans approve of these attacks on transgender rights?

Older LGBT people walking in Pride parade

Gender, Race & Place in MN, Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security

What We Owe LGBT Elders

LGBT elders face profound social and health disparities. A new study of aging LGBTQ Minnesotans identifies what we need to change to ensure LGBT people can age with dignity.

Built & Natural Environment, Health, Violence

Evictions Threaten Our Health

Evictions are bad for individual and public health. New research finds that housing instability can increase intimate partner violence and sexual health.

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?

Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security

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.

Hospital Coronavirus Emergency Department Ward: Doctors wearing Coveralls, Face Masks Treat, Cure and Save Lives of Patients. Focus on Biohazard Sign on Door, Background Blurred Out of Focus

Gender, Race & Place in MN, Health, Immigration & Refugees

Immigration Status: A Political Determinant of Health

Foreign-born Minnesotans—particularly men—were twice as likely to die from COVID in 2020.

Zobeida Bonilla

University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

Debra DeBruin

University of Minnesota, Center for Bioethics, Medicine, and Philosophy

Liz Boyle

University of Minnesota, Sociology & Law

Health

American Attitudes Toward Transgender Rights

What We Owe LGBT Elders

Evictions Threaten Our Health

More than Ever, We Need Comprehensive Sex Education

Caregiving Through a Disability Justice Lens

Preventing Human Trafficking

Driving Toward Labor and Disability Justice

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

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

Feminist Futures: Reimagining Arguments for Abortion

Beyond Choice: Abortion Rights in Latin America

COVID-19 Exposed Racial Inequities in Reproductive Health

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

Abortion and Privacy

Immigration Status: A Political Determinant of Health