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Episode 9: Election 2024 Recap - This is Not the End of the Fight
Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice Florida
Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice Florida is part of National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, serving to amplify the Latino voice, organizing, and advocacy presence in Florida. Since 2007, based in Miami, we work with activists and leaders throughout South Florida to inform, organize, and mobilize our communities on reproductive justice issues that impact our families and our lives. The Florida Latino community is diverse and faces unique challenges that influence our decisions around healthcare.
We fight to continue to change Florida at the structural level, while helping our activists transform at the personal level. At the Latina Institute Florida, our goal is simple – to amplify the voices of Latinas/es so that they can continue to lead in creating a Florida with true reproductive justice for all.
Equis
Equis is a set of organizations working to create a better understanding of Latinos, innovate new approaches to reach and engage them, and invest in the leadership and infrastructure for long-term change and increased engagement. We envision a world where Latinos feel influential and powerful. Our community, democracy deserve a future built by and for Latinos. Once and for all, we want to feel at home in our families, our communities, and our country.
Aya Contigo
Aya Contigo is an app platform that virtually accompanies women through a safe medical abortion and family planning journey, providing them with a private, evidence-based and reliable digital resource to avoid unsafe abortions. Aya Contigo was created in conjunction with 1000 Latinas and a dozen Latin American grassroots organizations, in collaboration with leading international sexual and reproductive health organizations.
Unwanted pregnancy and abortion are common events in women’s lives. There are pills to get an abortion safely and at home. Aya Contigo is a mobile application that virtually walks you through the process of safe abortion with pills.
If you are less than 12 weeks pregnant and have decided to have an abortion, you can contact us to use the Aya Contigo app. Aya’s care team is available to chat with you and support you. You are not alone. Let’s do this together.
You Always Have Options
If you live in a state where abortion is restricted, you can still have a safe abortion — using pills by mail (available in every state), or by traveling to another state for care. These resources can help you figure out your options and find the support you need.
Episode 8: U.S. Part 2 - The Green Tide Rises
Pregnancy Justice
Pregnancy Justice protects and advances pregnant people’s bodily autonomy and rights by defending those who have been criminalized, advocating for proactive policy and legal change, and shifting the public narrative. We focus on those most vulnerable to investigation, arrest, detention, or family separation related to pregnancy. This includes women and people who are poor, of color, with disabilities, do not conform to gender binary stereotypes, and/or use drugs.
Las Libres
Las Libres A.C. is a feminist organization founded in 2000 in Mexico, to defend and promote women’s rights. Today, we also support women in the United States who lost their right to choose when Roe v Wade was reversed in June 2022.
Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir México
Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir México is a movement of Catholic feminists committed to the defense of human rights, particularly those related to sexuality and human reproduction, and a life free of gender violence and discrimination. We promote the secular State, social justice, and cultural transformations from the perspective of progressive theologies and with an intersectional feminist approach.
Abortion on our Own Terms
Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir México is a movement of Catholic feminists committed to the defense of human rights, particularly those related to sexuality and human reproduction, and a life free of gender violence and discrimination. We promote the secular State, social justice, and cultural transformations from the perspective of progressive theologies and with an intersectional feminist approach.
Equis
Equis is a set of organizations working to create a better understanding of Latinos, innovate new approaches to reach and engage them, and invest in the leadership and infrastructure for long-term change and increased engagement. We envision a world where Latinos feel influential and powerful. Our community, democracy deserve a future built by and for Latinos. Once and for all, we want to feel at home in our families, our communities, and our country.
Vitala Global
Vitala Global envisions a world where all women and girls have the freedom to make judgment-free choices to achieve their sexual and reproductive health goals. Their mission is to revolutionize sexual and reproductive self-care through co-designed, holistic, and localized digital solutions that meet women and girls where they are, empowering them to be agents of change. Vitala created Aya Contigo, which is an app platform that virtually accompanies women through a safe medication abortion and family planning journey, providing them with an evidence-based, reliable private digital resources to avoid unsafe abortions. Aya Contigo was co-created with 1000 Latinas and a dozen Latin American grassroots organizations, in partnership with leading international SRH organizations. You can make a tax-deductible contribution to support Aya Contigo through GoFundMe.
Episode 7: U.S. Part 1 - Storytelling, Conversation, & Community
SisterSong
SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization; our purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities.
Women’s Equality Center (WEC)
The Women’s Equality Center complements and strengthens the work of organizations in Latin America via capacity-building grants, integrated policy, communications campaigns, and rapid-response operations to develop long-term and big-picture messaging frameworks around emerging issues and political opportunities linked to reproductive freedom and justice.
Paola Mendoza Film ‘Romina’
Romina tells the story of what happened when a community came together to uplift and provide material support to a teen in need. This animated film depicts the harrowing realities for many young people in a post-Dobbs America.
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Episode 6: Brazil, Crossing Borders For Care
Projeto Vivas
The Vivas Project is a non-governmental and non-profit organization, created in 2020 with the aim of helping girls, women and other people able to become pregnant to access the services of legal and safe abortion here in Brazil, by the SUS or, in cases not allowed by Brazilian law, abroad. For those in vulnerable situations, they offer financial assistance to cover any expenses with commutes, stay, food and, in the case of care abroad, with the procedure of gestation interruption. In addition, they offer updated information based on evidence on the subject, following the entire process from the arrival of women until their return home after the procedure. They are a team of women committed to defending human rights and access to legal abortion. They believe that all people have the right to decide on their life, future and family projects, in addition to accessing health services, procedures and care that are sensitive, respectful and quality.
Anis
Anis – Institute of Bioethics is a feminist, anti-racist, and anti-ableist nongovernmental organization. It aims to promote policies based on care, interdependence, and redress for the violation of rights to a full life, with reproductive justice for all people as its central focus. In more than 20 years of work, we have built an intersectional feminist architecture to promote citizenship, equality, and human rights, with sexual and reproductive justice as our priority. We work to strengthen, broaden, and advance the agenda of intersectional feminism and human rights.
Episode 5: The Fight for Three Exceptions - Is It Enough?
CLADEM
The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women’s Rights (CLADEM). It is a regional network that brings together women and organizations committed to a feminist socio-legal approach. Its aim is to promote social transformation and the construction of radical democracies, embracing an intersectional perspective that values cultural, ethnic-racial, sexual, intergenerational and social diversity. In this way, the aim is to ensure the full exercise and enjoyment of the human rights of all women
Women’s Link Worldwide
Women’s Link Worldwide is an intersectional feminist, anti-racist, anti-ableist, and anti-colonial human rights organization. We are Global South-led and work in Latin America and the Caribbean, East Africa, and Europe. Partnering with others, we strive to bring justice to women, girls, and gender-diverse people by dismantling structural barriers to their rights.
Episode 4: From Three Exceptions to Decriminalization
Women’s Link Worldwide
Women’s Link Worldwide is an intersectional feminist, anti-racist, anti-ableist, and anti-colonial human rights organization. We are Global South-led and work in Latin America and the Caribbean, East Africa, and Europe. Partnering with others, we strive to bring justice to women, girls, and gender-diverse people by dismantling structural barriers to their rights.
Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person.
Causa Justa
Causa Justa is a movement that seeks reproductive freedom and autonomy for all women over their bodies and their life plans. It was born in 2017, as an initiative of the Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres, and in 2020 it was formed as a movement made up of women’s, feminist and human rights organizations; and different sectors such as activists, health service providers, academic representatives and research centers from all over the country. Since then, Causa Justa has led the public debate on abortion in Colombia to advance the elimination of the crime of abortion from the Penal Code.
Episode 3: Latinidad - Sex and Sexuality
Center for Cultural Power
The Center for Cultural Power is a women of color, artist-led organization, inspiring artists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributed equitably and where we live in harmony with nature. We support artists through fellowships, training and opportunities for activation. We create intersectional stories and content addressing issues of migration, climate, gender and racial justice. We engage groups in cultural strategy and organize artists in issues that inspire them. Together with allies, we are co-creating a field of cultural strategy with organizations and practitioners through convenings, design teams and strategy tables.
Puta Life (book)
In Puta Life, Juana María Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illustrated biographies, documentary films, photojournalistic essays, graphic novels, and digital spaces, she focuses on the figure of the puta—the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine excess. Rodríguez’s eclectic archive features the faces and stories of women whose lives have been mediated by sex work’s stigmatization and criminalization—washerwomen and masked wrestlers, porn stars and sexiles. Rodríguez examines how visual tropes of racial and sexual deviance expose feminine subjects to misogyny and violence, attuning our gaze to how visual documentation shapes perceptions of sexual labor. Throughout this poignant and personal text, Rodríguez brings the language of affect and aesthetics to bear upon understandings of gender, age, race, sexuality, labor, disability, and migration. Highlighting the criminalization and stigmatization that surrounds sex work, she lingers on those traces of felt possibility that might inspire more ethical forms of relation and care.
Episode 2: El Salvador - No Exceptions
We imagine a world where every person has the right and resources to make reproductive decisions free from discrimination, coercion, or violence.We believe that everyone should have the power to decide if, when, and how to define, create, and sustain their families. Our goal is to help transform the legal and policy landscape to make our belief a reality.
Episode 1: Argentina - Birthplace of the Green Wave
We promote that women and diversities in Argentina decide freely about their sexuality and reproduction without violence or discrimination.
Tu Voz Importa! Your voice matters!
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This project was produced with the support of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) as part of its Reproductive Rights, Health, and Justice in the Americas initiative.
© Green Tide Rising, LLC, 2024.