Eesha is a contributing writer at Feministing and the Crunk Feminist Collective. Recently, she's served as the Women’s Rights Manager at Breakthrough and as Director of Advocacy at MergerWatch, where she worked on the Raising Women’s Voices project. Eesha has also worked as Associate Director of Programs at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP) and has been a weekly staff writer for RH Reality Check. She has also worked with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Rights Program. She currently serves on the board of the New York Abortion Access Fund and the National Network of Abortion Funds. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Chicago.
Compelling social justice advocacy and activism must take the form of multidimensional organizing and intersectional thinking. Justice NOW in Oakland, California is a brilliant example of this kind of work.
The first-ever study ranking countries according to their level of peacefulness, the Global Peace Index, was recently published, but fails to include the most prevalent form of global violence.
Samuel Berger writes in The Nation about the evolving phenomena of "choice" politics—focusing on the newly emerging pitfalls in the matter of reproductive technologies.
New findings on child wellness in the United States were released Friday: the rate of teen pregnancy is at an all time low, but there are still significant disparities between race and class.
Last week at the United States Social Forum, a group of organizations and activists created a new activist tool, "The Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change."
Senators Coleman and Domenici have proposed an amendment which would put undocumented immigrant women at risk of deportation for reporting a crime—including domestic violence.
The International Criminal Court's newest investigation is its first case in which the number of mass rapes outnumbers the number of mass killings, supporting the argument that war is a women's rights issue.
A common tactic used by opponents of reproductive justice is to feign interest in women’s health and well-being. An example of anti-woman dogma dressed in health rhetoric is Concerned Women for America.
The Group of Eight (G8) summit was held last week in Germany; on the last day the member nations met with African leaders to address HIV/AIDS.
Youth leadership, global justice and sex-positivity are just some of the issues that power a broad-based reproductive justice movement envisioned and experienced at the Sistersong Conference.
