Ep.2 - ReproRights and Reproductive Justice with Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas
Release Date: 11/01/2018
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Parenting and Politics
In this episode Diana talks to Nadine Smith, Executive Director of Equality Florida, about everyone should be paying attention to what is happening in Florida, how the tide is turning and she remains hopeful abotu the future. Nadie discusses how Equality Florida is fighting anti-LGBTQ policies in Florida (and how they're winning). In this candid conversation, Nadine also shares the incredible organizing that is happening on the ground, in what she calls "Frontline Florida," and how parents from all over the country can support actions and efforts on the ground. Listen to find out what...
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Ep. 62: Birth Control Without a Prescription: Is the Opill Safe and Affordable? with Victoria Nichols
Parenting and Politics
In this episode, Diana chats with Victoria Nichols, the project director of to discuss the Opill, which is the first-ever over-the-counter birth control pill which will be available online and on store shelves soon. The coalition is a group of more than 200 reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations, research and advocacy groups, youth activists, health care providers, prominent medical and health professional associations, and others who share a commitment to ensuring more equitable access to safe, effective, and affordable birth control to people of all ages, backgrounds,...
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Ep. 61 Why Centering Our Youth's Wellbeing is a Win for Our Society with Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
Parenting and Politics
In this episode, Diana talks to Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, the Executive Director of the Children's Defense Fund, an organization which focuses on advocating for the whole child. CDF envisions a nation where marginalized children flourish, leaders prioritize their well-being, and communities wield the power to ensure they thrive. In this heartwarming and powerful conversation, Diana and Dr. Wilson discuss why poverty is a public policy choice -- and why centering our youth's wellbeing is a MUST and a win for our society. Diana and Dr. Wilson discuss: CDF's work across 30 states...
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Ep. 60: Why Mom Power Is More Important than Ever with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Parenting and Politics
What happens when your infant child has medical needs you need to tend to, but there is no paid family medical leave in place? You get pushed out of the workforce, an that is exactly what happened to Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and Co-founder of It was this event, which Kristin appropriately calls an unforeseen "health crisis" that pushed Kristin out of the workforce. She found herself unemployed, taking care of an infant and going down a rabbit hole where she went looking for answers (and stats!) about what moms were facing in the United States... surely she wasn't the only...
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Ep. 59: Why Prioritizing Children's Rights Benefits Us All with Adam Benforado
Parenting and Politics
What would happen if we put children first in our country? What would happen if we empowered children at all ages and centered the law to protect our youngest citizens? In this episode Diana talks to Adam Benforado, a children's rights expert, an award winning author and law professor at Drexel University, about how prioritizing children's rights would benefit us all. In his critically acclaimed new book, A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All, Adam criticizes America’s failure to invest in, protect, and empower its youngest citizens and presents a bold plan for...
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Ep. 58: How Do We Parent Boys to Combat Man Box Culture? with Mark Greene
Parenting and Politics
In this episode, Diana talks to Mark Greene, an expert on healthy masculinity and author of The Little #MeToo Book for Men, and founder of a community called “Remaking Manhood” on Instagram. They discuss what man box culture means, how it affects our boys, and what we can do as parents to ensure that our boys are not adhering to the precepts of man box culture that can hurt their ability to be full human beings with a wide range of emotions. Mark also highlights powerful that show how man box culture affects men in the USA, Mexico and the UK. Mark shares fascinating insight on...
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Ep. 57: The Youth Vote and Disinformation in the Latinx Community with Maria Teresa Kumar
Parenting and Politics
Why are Latinx voters being targeted with disinformation? What does young Latinx Voting Power in 2024 look like? In this episode Diana talks to Maria Teresa Kumar, the Executive Director of Voto Latino, about the possibilities that young Latino voters bring as so many turn 18 before the 2024 election. They also discuss why and how bad actors are targeting the Latinx community by spreading disinformation to wreak havoc in USA elections, and what we can do as a community to ensure disinformation doesn’t spread, especially to older adults targeted with direct messaging by nefarious groups such...
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Ep. 56: Why Abortion Bans Affect Latinas the Most with Lupe Rodriguez
Parenting and Politics
In this conversation, Diana talks to Lupe Rodriguez, the Executive Director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, about why Latinas are the group most impacted by abortion bans around the country and what the Latina Institute is doing to fight for abortion rights, particularly in the states where latinas are the most affected: Arizona, Texas and Florida. In this episode, Diana and Lupe also touch on: the intersectionality of reproductive justice work what on-the-ground organizing for abortion rights looks like in the Latinx community how reproductive rights...
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Ep. 55: La Marea Verde and What We Can Learn from the Abortion Rights Fight in Latin America
Parenting and Politics
At a time when the USA has struck down Roe v. Wade and there are attacks on women's reproductive freedoms, the opposite has been happening in Latin America. In this episode, Diana talks to Paula Avila Guillén, the Executive Director of the Women's Equality Center about the Abortion Rights Fight in Latin America and La Marea Verde-- the Green Wave-- that has arrived in the USA. They discuss the abortion rights movement in Latin America and how it went from being a small movement to something much. bigger that people marched into the streets-- and to the courts -- and how they're winning...
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Ep. 54: Latinas' Access to Reproductive Care in a Post-Roe World with Lupe Rodriguez
Parenting and Politics
“The decision to become a parent is one of the most life decision that anybody can make.” In this episode Diana has a candid conversation with Lupe Rodriguez, Executive Director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice about Latinas’ and the Latinx community’s access to reproductive care: -what that looked like before the overturning of Roe v. Wade -the specific barriers to access that Latinx communities face to access abortion care (hint hint Border Patrol has something to do with it) -how we can shift cultural narratives -Marianismo and Catholicism and how they...
info_outlineIn this episode I speak to Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Executive Director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH).
We discuss:
- Access to birth control in the USA
- Roe v. Wade: is it in jeopardy?
- NLIRH’s work
- And MORE!
About Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas
Jessica González-Rojas is the Executive Director at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, the only national reproductive justice organization that specifically works to advance reproductive health and rights for Latinas.
She an Adjunct Professor of Latino and Latin American Studies at the City University of New York’s City College and has taught courses on reproductive rights, gender and sexuality. Jessica has a Masters degree in Public Administration from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Boston University.
She is a regular media voice in local and national outlets such as MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry Show, News Nation, National Public Radio, the Bill Moyers Show, the Daily Beast, among others.
You can learn more about NLIRH here.
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