Adios…
Thank you so much for the chance to share and learn with you during my guest-stint on Feministe. It’s been a terrific experience, and I really appreciate the various conversations we have had over the week. I wanted to leave with you with a few resources to learn more about reproductive justice: (Full disclosure: I [...]
...read moreThe Jill Question: What is the Role of Privileged White Women in the Reproductive Justice Movement?
Several years ago, a colleague and I were invited to speak at a conference of progressive law students at Harvard. We were there to share the results of our research project on young women of color, which made clear that the ways reproductive health and rights activists talked to young women did not resonate with [...]
...read morePrivate Mourning
I didn’t post anything yesterday on purpose. All of the attention surrounding September 11th made me feel weird about sharing anything not related to the events of eight years ago. And as a Native New Yorker, it feels hard to not engage in the public remembrance. For me, the events of September 11th are so [...]
...read moreWhat I Wish People Knew About Cancer
I feel funny writing this this because I feel like I’ve said and written so much about my mom’s cancer diagnosis and fight over the last year. Yet people still don’t get it. Cancer, I mean. And in all fairness why should they? Is it because by 2010 cancer will be the leading cause of [...]
...read moreEmbracing Justice, or How I Left Choice Behind
(Full disclosure: This is an update of previous essay I wrote. I still think it’s relevant and wanted to share it with you.) I’ve been pro-choice all of my life. And yet, I remember the day that revealed what Choice really meant to me. I was seventeen and on vacation from my fancy boarding school, [...]
...read more“Soy Aimée, la de Zaida.”
My apologies for being late with this first post, but Mercury in Retrograde has been kicking my butt. Anyway, as a guest-blogger, I realize that I need to introduce myself to the Feministe community. I thought I’d start out with an anecdote: When I was younger, I spent summers in Puerto Rico with my grandparents. [...]
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