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What we missed
TweetCheck out this great piece by my UN Foundation colleague Jacob Tobia on the ways in which homophobia can hinder progress in global development, and why it’s so important to address LGBTQI discrimination as the UN shapes its new global development framework. Love this. Just a few days left to support APAD’s badass grassroots activism [...]
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TweetTomorrow is World Prematurity Day. Preterm birth is an issue that deeply affects adults and families as well as newborns. Learn more with the March of Dimes. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the federal government for putting immigrants in jail because, you know. Just ‘cuz. Uhhh these sex scandal cartoons are all kinds [...]
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TweetWe’re less likely to recognize Depression in men than we are in women, because patriarchy. Worldwide, the number of transgender people who were murdered went up – by 20 percent – in 2012. Why did TSA find it necessary to pat down Solange Knowles‘ afro? Unemployed black woman pretends to be white and finds she [...]
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TweetPublic Health researchers released a study noting what many of us have long suspected regarding what happens to women after they are denied abortion care: “When a woman is denied the abortion she wants, she is statistically more likely to wind up unemployed, on public assistance, and below the poverty line.” *and* “[Women] were more likely [...]
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