Six Things You Can Learn From a Woman Who Has Fought for Abortion Rights for 18 Years
“That means making sure we’re engaging with them as we’re coming up with our ideas and our strategies and creating our messages,” Johnson says. “I believe that if we center the most affected we will create winning strategies that will impact all of us.”
Apart from centering reproductive justice campaigns on those most affected, Johnson says it’s also important to acknowledge the work those communities have done. “We have to acknowledge and remember that women of color have been doing the work of sexual health, reproductive rights, and gender equity from the beginning of time,” Johnson says. “[They] have played major roles in policy change and culture change around these issues. If we continue to invest in [youth and women of color] I think we can go from having a mandate to having power.”
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