Justine Izah is a senior at the Indiana Academy, where she is co-president of the Third Wave Feminism club. She enjoys writing about the intersections of race and gender, blogging, and uplifting black girls and women.
If we truly want to improve pregnancy rates and health outcomes of low-income women and women of color, we need to provide both family planning resources and comprehensive sexual health education in communities and to stop the criminalization of women of color’s pregnancies.
The Netflix series has been praised by many as being "revolutionary" in its depictions of womanhood, but the show fails to offer its Black characters the sexual liberation that is typically only associated with white characters.
