
Katie Klabusich
Katie Klabusich is a freelance writer, speaker, and host of The Katie Speak Show. Her work can also be found at Rolling Stone, Truthout, Teen Vogue, The Toast, Catapult, and Bitch Magazine. Follow her on Twitter: @Katie_Speak.
Katie Klabusich is a freelance writer, speaker, and host of The Katie Speak Show. Her work can also be found at Rolling Stone, Truthout, Teen Vogue, The Toast, Catapult, and Bitch Magazine. Follow her on Twitter: @Katie_Speak.
We cannot fully build families and determine the direction of our own lives as long as the floor can be yanked out from underneath us.
The new book is poised to be a vital tool for person-to-person connection and part of the broader work for culture-wide change.
Chung exposes the raw pieces of her heart, allowing the reader to feel all the complex emotions that came with learning the details of her origin as an adult who still yearned to hear that her birth parents—her first parents, the ones who might look like her—wanted her, even if they couldn’t keep her.
In Doing Harm, Maya Dusenbery pulls back the curtain on the history and current state of the medical profession to explain why women with chronic illness are not receiving the care they need.
For me, considering going through the adoption process as an adult is about having the right to configure my family the way that’s best for me—a right we should all have.
Culture & Conversation Politics
“We can’t understand the rise of Trump, or combat the forces he represents, without attention to reproductive politics," explains University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor Laura Briggs in How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump.
An over-the-control birth control pill is literally on the horizon, according to Ibis Reproductive Health Vice President for Development and Public Affairs Britt Wahlin.
“The law guarantees women the right to control their own bodies and access the reproductive health care they need, without obstruction," said New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman.
The app has become an increasingly vital tool for providing basic health care to vulnerable communities, in particular people in rural areas.
"My reproductive rights are the same as the girl sitting next to me on the subway. If she can’t afford it then it’s all of our problems.”
In About Abortion, Carol Sanger examines post-Roe laws and court cases that have had implications for abortion restrictions directly or indirectly to make her case that normalizing abortion could end this compulsory silence.
And a group of experts wants you to know that federal regulatory policy is partly responsible.
"Without the ACA, I will lose not only years on my quality of life, but [also] my identity, my few opportunities to contribute to the economy, my community, and the world around me.”
To create sustainable change, we need to determine what kind of culture we want to live in as we break down the gender binary.
As one of the most anti-choice administrations in U.S. history is set to take office this week, just two days before we mark the 1973 decriminalization of abortion through Roe v. Wade, pro-choice activists must make a concerted effort to create space for all those who need and have had an abortion, including those who felt regret.
“Along with my colleagues Jan Schakowsky, Diana DeGette, and Louise Slaughter, I am looking forward to re-introducing the EACH Woman Act for the 115th Congress,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) told Rewire in an email.
Sandra, who went through the adoption process in 1987, wants legislators and others to know that it wasn’t the right option for her and shouldn’t be held up as the obvious alternative to terminating an unintended pregnancy.
Culture & Conversation Politics
In the time of a "thousand outrages," the author sees opportunity for transformation and a surge of organizing that goes beyond one cause.
#HelloHyde seeks to celebrate the supposed one million lives “saved” by denying low-income individuals with Medicaid insurance access to abortion care. As the product of an unplanned pregnancy, I find this goal to be offensive, malicious, and enraging.
Wilson is captivating and genuine in Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame—and I lept (OK, I “squee!”-ed) at the chance to ask her about some of my favorite parts of her new book.
With students returning to campus and football season kicking off this week, investigative journalist Jessica Luther’s book Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape, is arriving at a pivotal moment.
Culture & Conversation Violence
#JustSaySorry is calling on current and prospective students as well as alumni to post on social media that they will withhold donations until those institutions do the bare minimum: “Issue an acknowledgment and apology to students who feel or have felt less valued and less safe because of the way they’ve responded to campus sexual assault.”
Culture & Conversation Human Rights
It's time for a shift in the use of “self-care” that creates space for actual care apart from the extra kindnesses and important, small indulgences that may be part of our self-care rituals, depending on our ability to access such activities.
Advocates say that U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy's "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act," purported to help address gaps in care, is regressive and strips rights away from those diagnosed with mental illness. This leaves those in the LGBTQ community—who already often have an adversarial relationship with the mental health sector—at particular risk.
By staying silent, even for good reasons, we unintentionally perpetuate the assumptions that mental illness equals disruptive behavior, potential violence, and a hostile work environment, because most people aren’t given the opportunity to personally experience a mentally ill person being competent.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
Students, speakers from local reproductive health clinics, and abortion storytellers are empowering each other and their communities to declare: “We are Abortion Positive, are you?”
Culture & Conversation Human Rights
In All the Single Ladies, Traister outlines the struggle and the strength of womanhood while demolishing myths, as well as flat-out lies, about the role and prevalence of single women through history.
Culture & Conversation Human Rights
As I was reading The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality In the Workplace, I saw my nontraditional life and needs represented by the policies the author advocates for and realized these are fights I need to be more involved in, for reasons beyond rounding out my reproductive justice advocacy.
Culture & Conversation Contraception
Nurx, a newly launched web-based app, seeks to help eliminate barriers to contraception by “putting you in control of your own health.”
Misogyny may evolve as new tactics are put into practice, but the systematic harassment of women, whether it be for speaking up or for accessing reproductive health care, continues to be about power.
With 15 million children facing hunger, our nation is failing miserably on this front.
Feminist author Kate Harding wields metaphor with unrivaled mastery in her new book to root out the causes and effects of the way an internalized set of myths about sexual assault allow an epidemic to continue.
Right now I have to consider that this season I may be a rape survivor cheering for a team led by an accused rapist.
I know firsthand that for many people, poverty is often related to a lack of access to basic health care, including abortion. This growing burden, carried primarily by poor people, is a blind spot for many legislatures and courts around the country.
Throughout these efforts, students say, labels like “pro-choice” and “pro-life” took a backseat to story-sharing—perhaps offering insight about ways that young activists, far from being apathetic or disinterested, are engaging their peers about issues of reproductive rights and justice.
In addition to bringing to light stories of harassment, Crosshairs also calls for reforms in the legal system, making it an absolute must-read for anyone in media and reproductive rights advocacy.
Since the Supreme Court gave people in the United States the legal right to abortion care with Roe v. Wade 42 years ago, residents of historically “safe” states have too frequently taken our access to reproductive rights for granted.
If anti-choicers truly cared about women to the degree they claim, surely they would treat abortion procedures just like any other reproductive health need—and leave decisions about safety and comfort up to women and their doctors.