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The Spirit Was...

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Reina anticipates. Some might say she has trouble waiting. Others claim she just wants to trouble waiting. Reina lives in Fort Greene, loves both Fort Greene cemetery & Fort Greene Park, and recently realized these two are one in the same. And that neither one was built as reparations for the Middle Passage…yet. Reina anticipates. twitter: @reinagossett
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Friends: that image saying that only people with a vagina should be able to express an opinion about women's reproductive rights is really awful. Please don't share it. It really aggressively locks trans women out of conversations or control over their own bodies and lives, as well as ciswomen cancer survivors who have undergone vaginectomy. I'm totally into messages that support the leadership of people who are most affected by gender oppression and I appreciate messages that acknowledge that some people who aren't women (e.g. trans men) are directly impacted by misogyny--but this doesn't really do these things. It reinforces transphobic and ableist hierarchies as well as the sexist idea that woman = vagina.

Gabriel Arkles sharing light & brilliance as usual.  If you haven't read it yet I STRONGLY recommend you read his article, Prisons As A Tool For Reproductive Oppression: Cross-Movement Strategies For Gender Justice immediately.

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Did the RJ movement forget that some women use Viagra just like some men access abortions?  Because when it comes to Ohio's Viagra bill the ongoing excitement and celebration casually endorses a genitals = gender analysis as well as more regulations for women accessing healthcare, not less. 

It happens to be that those women are trans women, which its taken a really long time for the RJ movements to acknowledge in the first place.

I would love to witness  a full stop when it comes to equating genitals with gender.  Can we have a more complex understanding of how misogynist regulations like access to birth control regulate a lot of people's lives of various genders? Can we understand that legislation like the Ohio Viagra bill would actually introduce more restrictions into women's lives that are already really regulated?  Come on Reproductive Justice Movement, we can do better.

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