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Reproductive Justice Must Include Intersex Justice

Post author By Claire Burrus
Post date March 24, 2019
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Local and national news outlets have covered endless stories on reproductive health care and policy in the past few months. For example, after Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn into the United States Supreme Court last October, the nation wondered what implications his conservative voice on the court would have on the future of the historic […]

Tags advocacy, health, Health Policy, intersectional, intersectionality, intersex, justice, LGBT, LGBTQIA+, medicine, repro, reproductive justice, rights, RJ, social, social justice, social policy, visibility

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Sexual Violence in Colombia and Around the World: The Invisible, Mute, and Exempt Crime

Post author By Marcelle Cohen
Post date August 9, 2015
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Photo Credit: Jose Huesca/EPA via The Guardian Second in a series by Marcelle Cohen (LBJ MGPS Student) covering her internship at La Allianza Iniciativa de Mujeres Colombianas por la Paz. Sexual violation, forced marriage, forced prostitution, sexual slavery, forced abortion, forced sterilization; the negation of reproductive rights to access anti-contraceptives or protection from sexually transmitted disease; genital […]

Tags Colombia, El Oso, equality, justice, sexual violence, Women's Empowerment

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Black history should be a year-round lesson: Reflections on Julian Bond’s LBJ Speech

Post author By Loretta Taylor
Post date March 31, 2015
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Julian Bond. Photo: Courtesy Virginia Film Festival, 2012 Since 1996, the Barbara Jordan Forum has been a means of honoring its namesake, a celebrated Texas politician and a beloved former LBJ professor. As a kick-off to this year’s program back in February, civil rights activist Julian Bond delivered a keynote address to a packed auditorium […]

Tags democracy, domestic policy, equality, human rights, justice, LBJ School, race, social policy