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A Black Midwesterner’s Perspective on Abortion Access, Regional Culture, and Why People Should Care About the Midwest
When reporting on the Midwest, media outlets often forget about communities subject to state violence and suppression.
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My Favorite Books by Women of Color to Read This Summer
My favorites include The True Queen, which deftly blends the drawing room politics of a Jane Austen novel with sorcery, race, colonialism, and imperialism.
‘Ctrl Alt Delete’ Aims to Be ‘The Office’ of Abortion Providing
Depictions of funny abortion experiences—and some are—have been largely absent from film and television. The web series now in its second season hopes to change that.
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In Tupac’s ‘Dear Mama,’ a Backstory About His Mother’s Activism, Mass Incarceration, and Bail
This Mother's Day, I'm listening to the song as a tribute to Afeni Shakur, but also to families separated by mass incarceration.
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If Meghan Markle Chose a Doula, an OB-GYN’s Mocking Proved Her Right
A British doctor joined the royal-bashing, in questioning her birth plan. With physician attitudes like that, who could blame the Duchess of Sussex for considering midwifery, a doula, and a nonhospital birth?
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Protecting and Expanding Social Security Doesn’t Mean Policing Reproduction
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A Breakthrough Strategy for Ending the HIV Epidemic
The consistent and steady decline in HIV is related to the power of an increasingly better known, life-saving HIV treatment that has the wonderful side effect of preventing sexual transmission.
