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AWN October 2022 Newsletter
Happy October to everyone in the AWN community! I’m Rieko Shepherd, and I recently started working as Policy Manager at AWN. I have hit the ground running on many important health-related policy issues.
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6 Facts about Asexuality and Aromanticism
October 23 – 29, 2022, we’re celebrating asexual and aromantic identities.
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Entrevista con Angélica Vega sobre Justicia Reproductiva por el Mes de la Herencia Latine 2022
En honor al Mes de la Herencia Latine y considerando la reciente decisión Dobbs de la Corte Suprema que derogó Roe v Wade, conversé con una colega latina defensora de la justicia reproductiva.
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September 2022 Newsletter
As a bi Latina trans woman, I want to wish you a Happy Latine Heritage Month and Bi Visibility Day!
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Reproductive Justice Interview with Angelica Vega for Latine Heritage Month 2022
Women of color already mistrust the medical system, and now post-Roe v Wade there’s a fear of being prosecuted for reproductive care. Latina disability advocate Angelica Vega discussed reproductive justice and her own experiences with PCOS with AWN for our blog.
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August 13 Newsletter: Race, disability, and crisis response
Details for the September 13 “Disabled BIPoC: Disrupting Danger in Crisis Response,” and the National Survey on Health and Disability.
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Vice President Harris invites AWN’s Lydia X. Z. Brown to speak at disability and reproductive rights roundtable
July 26, 2022 marked the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act’s signing into law. To commemorate the occasion, Vice President Kamala Harris invited Lydia X. Z. Brown, AWN’s Director of Policy, Advocacy, &…
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Everyone Deserves to Make Their Own Choices: A plain language statement about abortion rights and reproductive freedom
The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, the Autistic People of Color Fund, and the National Women’s Law Center believe that all people should have control of their bodies.
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Disability Organizations Respond to the Overturning of Roe v Wade
The decision upends a core value at the heart of American life and law: that we each enjoy the individual liberty to make certain personal decisions without government interference. The very lives of disabled people depend upon the ability to make personal decisions without interference – including decisions about our bodies and medical care.
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Juneteenth and the legacy of disabled Black slaves
Juneteenth recognizes the day when enslaved African-American people in Texas were freed two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet history has largely forgotten how many enslaved disabled people also were not liberated by the Emancipation…
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A Series of Essays on Hmong and Disability for Asian American Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month
This piece is based on ongoing community conversations in the Hmong disability movement. It focuses on the theme of binaries within disability culture, such as the binary of “Western versus traditional,” within Hmong disability discourse.
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#StopTheShock: Why we should all support Andre’s Law in New York
Last week, Lydia X. Z. Brown and I traveled to Albany, New York to speak at a press conference within the New York state capitol. We urged state legislators to pass New York Senate Bill…
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