Showing posts with label social justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social justice. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Sister Reach Fights Insulting, Racist Billboards

My guest, Cherisse Scott, Founder and CEO of Sister Reachfirst caught my attention in an local news interview from Memphis. 

Earlier this year, Pro-life [Pro-birth] Across America put billboards up around Memphis which urged black men to intercede in black women's reproductive health decisions, namely to prevent abortion. These advertisements sought to drive a wedge between black men and women, and negate women's bodily autonomy and moral agency. Scott worked with her community to address actual issues of social justice while undoing some of the damage the billboards did. Sister Reach launched a positive campaign to #TrustBlackWomen instead of judging women for whatever reproductive health decisions they make.

Saturday, August 8, 2015

National Network of Abortion Funds Brings New Voice to Choice

On this episode Yamani Hernandez, the new Executive Director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, joined me to talk about incresing access, growing the reproductive justice movement within social justice framework, telling abortion stories, Bowl-a-thon, and more.