Tobi Hill-Meyer on Trans Organizing in the LGBT Movement

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Tobi Hill-Meyer, delivering the keynote at the Trans Justice Summit in OR.  November is Transgender Awareness Month. As the month wraps...

Shame From All Angles: Why Doesn’t Anyone Seem to Respect Teen Parents?

Monday, November 25, 2013

A new article by Echoing Ida member Gloria Malone was just published at RH Reality Check , about the lack of respect shown to teen parent...

Why Don't More People Care About Black Maternal Deaths?

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

This article was published at RH Reality Check , written by Cynthia R. Greenlee, an Echoing Ida member talking about the failure within the...

Join the #SexEdSaga Twitter Party on Friday Oct 18th because #SafeIsSexy

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

by Eddie Chao, Fiona Tang, Sidhartha Taruc, and Trang Vo of Forward Together Youth Remember when we brought you 20 Condoms , that catchy...

Continuing the Fight for Medicaid Expansion in Montana

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

By Sarah Howell I sat down to write a piece on access to health care, but I can’t help but mention that we are well into week two of ...

How Racial Impact Legislation is Working to Address Racism in Oregon

Friday, October 11, 2013

By Shannon Wight, Partnership for Safety and Justice Five years ago I moved back to my hometown, Portland, Oregon. I had lived in New Orl...

The 3 Questions That Every American Should Ask About Obamacare

Monday, October 07, 2013

As part of the ongoing Echoing Ida series on health care reform, journalist Dani McClain interviewed Echoing Ida writer Malika Redmond, Exec...

Where the Safety Net Won’t Catch Us: How Obamacare Fails Black Women on Maternal Health

Friday, October 04, 2013

The third article in the Echoing Ida health care series is by Elizabeth Dawes Gay, published at RH Reality Check . Her article addresses the...

Beyond Benefits and Body Parts: Obamacare and Black Trans Health

Friday, October 04, 2013

An article from the Echoing Ida series on health care was published at Ebony this week. It's coauthored by Renee Bracey Sherman and Kel...

One of New York’s 2.7 Million Uninsured Asks: Will I Finally Be Able to Afford Health Insurance?

Wednesday, October 02, 2013

This is the first piece published in the Echoing Ida health care series launched this week. Echoing Ida is a Strong Families project that...

Echoing Ida Dispels Myths and Gets Real About Health Care Reform

Wednesday, October 02, 2013

By Alicia M. Walters  Echoing Ida writers L to R: Amber Phillips, Elizabeth Dawes Gay, Cynthia Greenlee, Annika Leonard, Shanelle Matthe...

TPM: How To Ditch Hyde Anti-Abortion Law And Win Elections

Monday, September 30, 2013

Our friends over at TPM ( Talking Points Memo)  have published a proposal to all politicians. The article is a response to the 37 th anni...

An Abortion Story Both Radical and Ordinary

Friday, September 06, 2013

By Cynthia Greenlee  This piece is published in collaboration with RH Reality Check and was originally published there . For more ...

Appropriate Cultural Appreciation

Friday, September 06, 2013

By Renee Bracey Sherman If you’ve been watching the news, watching your Twitter feed, or posts on Facebook, many people have been discu...

Fannie Lou Hamer and Her Dream for Jobs and Freedom

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

By Jazmine Walker As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, it is critical that we remember...

Women’s Equality Day 2013: Celebrating the nostalgia of past successes while remaining rooted in the dangers of the future

Monday, August 26, 2013

By Jasmine Burnett Today, August 26, 2013 is Women’s Equality Day . It marks 93 years that white women have had access to the vote, and o...