While New Year’s resolutions tend to be focused on individual goals like fitness, wellness or self-care, Sistersong, a women of color reproductive justice collective based in Atlanta, decided to take a different approach this year. The collective invited folks to share their reproductive justice resolutions using the #RJResolutions hashtag, which trended on twitter yesterday (January 1).
The result is an inspirational series of social justice goals and approaches that illustrate just how many seemingly unconnected issues fall under the reproductive justice umbrella. We picked seven of our favorites that highlight the work ahead for 2018.
Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective:
We will work to ensure discipline policies do not contribute to the school to prison pipeline and commit to doing all we can to end mass incarceration. #rjresolutions pic.twitter.com/zaUJ882v6Q
— SisterSong (@SisterSong_WOC) January 1, 2018
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR):
We will work with our hermanas to stop deportations and detentions and push for compassionate, comprehensive immigration reform. #RJResolutions #not1more pic.twitter.com/87r9PYP52k
— COLOR (@colorlatina) January 1, 2018
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health:
#RJresolutions: We will work to advance transgender liberation and amplify the voices and stories of transgender and gender nonconforming people. pic.twitter.com/aF6WKqYUNh
— NLIRH RAL TX (@TXLatinas) January 1, 2018
#RJresolutions: We will work to address ongoing health disparities faced by marginalized communities and racism in our healthcare system. pic.twitter.com/IZ6yhOf2m5
— NARAL (@NARAL) January 1, 2018
#RJresolutions: Support legislation that closes the wage gap for women, especially mothers. #EqualPay pic.twitter.com/0mAHLwY2Ym
— UltraViolet (@UltraViolet) January 1, 2018
#Medicaid is critically important, including its coverage of #maternitycare & #familyplanning. We vow to keep defending this program against cuts & other attacks. #RJResolutions pic.twitter.com/tDI9jE2pPf
— Guttmacher Institute (@Guttmacher) January 1, 2018
Black women are judged for having children, demonized for seeking abortion and stigmatized for seeking pleasure. #RJresolutions: We will challenge any policy that denies bodily autonomy or limits access to healthcare.
— SisterLove, Inc. (@SisterLove_Inc) January 1, 2018