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BREAKING NEWS: Mifepristone Accessibility Goes to the Supreme Court with Boom! Lawyered Hosts, Imani Gandy and Jess Pieklo

Sex Ed with DB: smart, science-backed sex education

Release Date: 12/20/2023

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Imani is Editor-at-Large for Rewire News Group, where she covers law and courts and co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered. Imani also began and continues to write the Angry Black Lady Chronicles.

Jess is the SVP and Executive Editor at Rewire News Group and co-host of the Boom! Lawyered podcast. She's also co-author of The End of Roe v Wade: Inside the Right's Plan to End Legal Abortion

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About Sex Ed with DB:

Sex Ed with DB is a feminist podcast bringing you all the sex ed you never got through unique and entertaining storytelling, centering LGBTQ+ and BIPOC experts. We discuss topics such as birth control, pleasure, LGBTQ+ health and rights, abortion, consent, BDSM, sex and disability, HIV, sex in the media, and more.

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Sex Ed with DB, Season 9 Team:

Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Danielle Bezalel (DB)

Producer and Communications Lead: Cathren Cohen

Producer and Communications Coordinator: Sadie Lidji

Marketing Coordinator: Kate Fiala