OpEd: DayWithoutUs organizer MsPeoples explains why Black women activists are coordinating a national teach-in on reproductive justice. ⬇️
, do not. And then Black women, Black birthing people, and everyone else are expected to fall in line and follow their lead. This isn’t just and it sure as hell isn’t working.the constitutional right to have an abortion, the most pressing question on the left was “What do we do now?” My Black feminist friends and I knew that white feminism didn’t have the answer. It couldn’t. So in a group chat, we decided that we’d figure it out ourselves — together, always together. And we got to work.
On Friday, September 30, we’re asking everyone — all people of all identities in all places — to take a day-long pause for protest, learning, and community building. By Black women and for all,will be an all-day, mass teach-in available online and offered at pop-ups in select cities across the country. This event centers reproductive justice, creating a container for us to claim space and time, to be in community with one another, and to flex our shared power in pursuit of our overall freedom.
in 2017, but this moment and the threats we all face demand more. That’s what #DayWithoutUs is all about. It’s important to note that when we say “women,” we mean cisgender women and transgender women, as well as people who are nonbinary and gender-nonconforming — everyone whose selfhood is oppressed by cisheteronormative patriarchy.
The loss of abortion access for some white women may feel like the ultimate betrayal and an attack on their freedom and way of life. But for the rest of us, the Supreme Court’s decision to gut abortion rights this summer was just another assault in a litany of state-sanctioned efforts to stifle our livelihoods and facilitate our deaths.
The anti-abortion movement in this country understands that to be successful in its goal of a total abortion ban, it must take action against other issues like access to affordable
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