🚨 New Episode 🚨
This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talked to the always amazing Preston Mitchum about who gets to define what a family is and who is often excluded from that vision. #podcast www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo...
Digital illustration of a person with a laptop in their lap, wearing a polka dot blue dress and lying on a quilted bed. On the laptop screen, there is the Zoom registration site for the 50-State Report Card Webinar 2026. At the top, a banner reads: "your reproductive rights shouldn't depend on where you live."
Our 50-State Report Card webinar on April 29 will break down how access to sexual & reproductive care varies across the country & what’s driving those gaps 🪡
Save the date: April 29, 12 PM ET
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Graphic sharing the rePROs Fight Back's annual 50-State Report Card on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, with fraying pink, teal, and purple patchwork fabric stitched together. Purple text on the left reads: "Your Reproductive Rights Shouldn't Depend On Where You Live." The report's cover is on the right, reading: "Barely Stitched Together: Attacks on Bodily Autonomy Have Created a Patchwork of Care."
Get the full breakdown here: reportcard.reprosfightback.com
Graphic for rePROs Fight Back's annual 50-State Report Card on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Black text reads: "25 states received an F on sexual and reproductive health and rights in this year's report card." The F, in pink, sits on a black-and-white U.S. map in the center. Pink text at the bottom reads: "How does your state score?" with the link to reportcard.reprosfightback.com. There is a digitally illustrated patchwork border of pink, teal, and purple fabric sewn together, a needle at the top.
Sexual & repro rights are under relentless attack, creating a patchwork of policies that renders your access to health care dependent on where you live. The #RHReportCard maps where states are falling short (& where they can build more accessible, just policies!)
Graphic with a purple background sharing the title of the brief, "Fostering Sustainable Development Through Girls’ Secondary Education and Comprehensive Sexuality Education." To the right, there is a picture of the first page of the brief. On it, there is a pink, teal, and lavender digital illustration of teenage students holding school books, a globe behind them.
rePROs Fight Back's NEW policy brief by our brilliant Senior Fellow Gayatri Brief highlights the promise of girls' secondary education and comprehensive sex ed to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality. Read it here! 📚➡️ static1.squarespace.com/static/59d64...
Rhetorically and politically, attacks on the right to abortion, birth control, sex education, women’s suffrage, no fault divorce, and higher education have been escalating. This week, Courtney Hagle at @mmfa.bsky.social talks with us about how violent rhetoric against women turns into policy:
Digital illustration of a person with a laptop in their lap, wearing a polka dot blue dress and lying on a quilted bed. On the laptop screen, there is the Zoom registration site for the 50-State Report Card Webinar 2026. At the top, a banner reads: "your reproductive rights shouldn't depend on where you live."
🚨The 2025 rePROs Fight Back Report Card on Sexual & Reproductive Health is out—and for the 7th year in a row, the U.S. got an “F” for reproductive rights.
Join our April 29 webinar to find out where your state stands & what the future holds for reproductive rights: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"Attacks on women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, sexual & reproductive rights are often among the first things under attack under authoritarian regimes, making it imperative that we understand attacks on reproductive and sexual freedom are attacks on our democracy." - me www.girltalkhq.com/new-report-c...
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional!
AND there's a fundamental right to abortion!
We won!
(Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)
"Attacks on women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, sexual & reproductive rights are often among the first things under attack under authoritarian regimes, making it imperative that we understand attacks on reproductive and sexual freedom are attacks on our democracy." - me www.girltalkhq.com/new-report-c...
"Attacks on women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, sexual & reproductive rights are often among the first things under attack under authoritarian regimes, making it imperative that we understand attacks on reproductive and sexual freedom are attacks on our democracy." - me www.girltalkhq.com/new-report-c...
🚨 New Policy Brief 🚨
Check out a new must read policy brief by our brilliant
@reprosfightback.bsky.social Senior Fellow Gayatri Patel highlighting the promise of girls secondary education and comprehensive sex ed to advance srhr and gender equality globally.
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On this week’s episode of Boom! Lawyered, @hegemommy.bsky.social and @angryblacklady.blacksky.app discuss the conservative legal movement’s latest attacks on medication abortion, and what it means for the future of abortion access. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
This makes me so sad. I love your book. I was wondering what to talk about in the intro to this week’s episode and now I know what I’m gonna do. Also can I send 5 more to another clinic or fund?
NEW: Lawmakers funded PEPFAR for $4.6 billion this year. But activists say the majority of payments are still not going out to organizations in the field, and they're worried about cuts in the president's proposed budget for next year.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Gray striped cat laying on top of an open notebook in front of of a laptop.
Cinder “helping” me prep for an interview this afternoon.
NEW: Teenage boys are pulling classmates' photos off Insta and running them through cheap nudify apps and the fallout has now hit nearly 90 schools across 28 countries with 600+ known victims since 2023, per a WIRED/Indicator analysis.
UNICEF estimates 1.2M children were targeted last year alone.
Rhetorically and politically, attacks on the right to abortion, birth control, sex education, women’s suffrage, no fault divorce, and higher education have been escalating. This week, Courtney Hagle at @mmfa.bsky.social talks with us about how violent rhetoric against women turns into policy:
This #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth, we're ringing the alarm on how victim blaming is coming to classrooms through a remix of abstinence-only 🚨
Marketed as a pathway out of poverty, meet the "success sequence" in our latest policy brief👇
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🚨 New Episode 🚨
This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talk to the wonderful Courtney Hagle at @mmfa.bsky.social about how the attacks on women's rights have gone from whispers behind closed doors to people standing 10 toes down on them and working to turn those attacks into policy. #podcast
Digital illustration of a person with a laptop in their lap, wearing a polka dot blue dress and lying on a quilted bed. On the laptop screen, there is the Zoom registration site for the 50-State Report Card Webinar 2026. At the top, a banner reads: "your reproductive rights shouldn't depend on where you live."
For the 7th year in a row, the U.S. has received an “F” in reproductive health, and where you live continues to shape the care you can access.
Save the date: April 29, 12 PM ET
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
You’ve Heard of Little Free Libraries – A Little Free Herb Garden Just Launched!! - Good addition to the group:
Our newest episode is out on YouTube! This week we have a great conversation with @jessiegender.bsky.social about the ethics swirling around consuming the Harry Potter HBO reboot and why it feels like folks are more receptive to a boycott now than with Hogwart's Legacy youtu.be/foppBBy2NJU
This week on rePROs Fight Back, Jessica Mason Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social at @rewirenewsgroup.com talks with us about the latest developments at SCOTUS, including recent cases on birthright citizenship and conversion therapy, as well as Trump’s ousting of Pam Bondi, former U.S. Attorney General:
The 2025 rePROs Fight Back Report Card on Sexual and Reproductive Health is out—and the US got an “F” for reproductive rights. Join our 4/29 webinar to find out where your state stands and what the future holds: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1017749...
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So happy for my home state. On Wisconsin!