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.
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I Shouldn’t Have to Choose Between Rent or Paying for an Abortion
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.
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Why Now More Than Ever We Need ‘Shout Your Abortion’
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.
Nicole Chung Captures All the Beautiful Messiness of Adoption in New Memoir
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.
It’s Not All in Your Head: New Book Sheds Light on ‘Bad Medicine and Lazy Science’ Harming Women
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.
Adult Adoption and Creating the Family I 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
All Politics Is Reproductive Politics: New Book Explores Equality Fight in Context
“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.
Advocates Set Sights on OTC Birth Control Pill on World Contraception Day
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.
New York Attorney General Files Crucial Lawsuit Against Clinic Picketers
“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.
Nurx Expansion Defies Federal Attempts to Curb Contraception Access
The app has become an increasingly vital tool for providing basic health care to vulnerable communities, in particular people in rural areas.
‘Our Bodies, Our Rules’: New Study Finds College Students Want Easier Access to Care
"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.”
‘About Abortion’ Unpacks Shame Narrative to End Silence, Stigma
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.
We’re Going the Wrong Way on Medication Abortion Access
And a group of experts wants you to know that federal regulatory policy is partly responsible.
Eliminating Regulations Is Freedom—But for Whom?
"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.”
Breaking Away From the Gender Binary: A Q&A With ‘Testosterone Rex’ Author Cordelia Fine
To create sustainable change, we need to determine what kind of culture we want to live in as we break down the gender binary.
Pro-Choice Activists Should Heed Kassi Underwood’s Push for Healing After Abortion
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.
Reproductive Rights Defenders Promise ‘Good Trouble’ in 2017
“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.
‘There Should Be No Judgment’ in Termination: One Woman’s Story
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
The Revolution Will Be Intersectional: Labor Journalist Sarah Jaffe Writes of a New Radicalism
In the time of a "thousand outrages," the author sees opportunity for transformation and a surge of organizing that goes beyond one cause.
#HelloHyde Erases My Lived Experience
#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.
Growing Up Famous and Out of Place: A Q&A With Mara Wilson
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.
Jessica Luther Offers NCAA a New Playbook for ‘Unsportsmanlike Conduct’ in Debut 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
Survivor-Activists Ask Colleges to #JustSaySorry
#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
Let’s Stop Conflating Self-Care and Actual Care
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: Bill to Address Gaps in Mental Health Care Would Do More Harm Than Good
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.
The Catch-22 of Hiding Your Mental Illness
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
Why Students Are Declaring They Are #AbortionPositive
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
On ‘Single Ladies’ Making History: A Q&A With Rebecca Traister
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
Family-Friendly Policies Benefit Everyone—Even Me
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
Birth Control by App? Nurx Fills a Gap
Nurx, a newly launched web-based app, seeks to help eliminate barriers to contraception by “putting you in control of your own health.”
‘Gendertrolling’ and Violence Against Abortion Providers: Cut From the Same Cloth
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.
#HungerActionMonth: How We Can Raise Awareness and Resources to End Child Hunger
With 15 million children facing hunger, our nation is failing miserably on this front.
‘Asking for It’: Why We Need to Get Angry About Rape Culture
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.
Patrick Kane and the Culture of Disbelief About Rape
Right now I have to consider that this season I may be a rape survivor cheering for a team led by an accused rapist.
Recent SNAP Restrictions Are Another Reminder That Poverty Is a Reproductive Issue
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.
Pop-Up Abortion Storytelling Campaigns Showcase the Power of Youth Activism
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.
‘Living in the Crosshairs’ Puts Human Face on Grim Clinic Violence Statistics
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.
Your Right to Abortion Care Is in Danger—No Matter Where You Live
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.
My Latest Reproductive Health Procedure Makes Anti-Choicers Seem Even More Hypocritical
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.
