over the counter birth control is here!
(finally)
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Some good news in the repro world:
For the first time ever, you can get birth control over the counter (no prescription needed)! From NPR:
Opill, the first oral contraceptive pill to be available without a prescription in the U.S., has shipped to retailers nationwide. It will be sold online and in the family planning aisle of drugstores, convenience stores and supermarkets later this month.
It looks like it’ll be $19.99 for a one month supply, and you can buy it online.
Olivia Rodrigo launched an initiative to support abortion funds across the U.S. as part of her GUTS tour. I love it so much. From Teen Vogue:
For the North American leg of the tour, Rodrigo will partner with the National Network of Abortion Funds to help those impacted by barriers to receiving reproductive healthcare. She also said fans can learn more at National Network of Abortion Funds tables, which will be at GUTS tour stops across North America.
This week France became the first and only country to explicitly enshrine abortion as a constitutional right!!
Come say hi: I’ll be stopping by the Working Families Party Politics House at SXSW next week - I’d love to see you there! Free tickets here.
Win of the week: I’m working on a dirt & worms recipe and figured out how to use black cocoa powder to make homemade Oreo crumbs. And if you need a butter rug in your life too, here’s the link.
From Palestinian Youth Movement’s IG:
In California, an incarcerated man donated $17.74 for relief efforts in Gaza. This donation was the sum of 136 hours of his labor in the prison working as a porter/janitor, where he made an average of 13 cents per hour.
Some of the deepest solidarity with Palestine in the US lies in the prison system — not only today, but historically. Since the time of the Black Panther Party and before, the dual presence of literature and Islam in US prisons have stirred in America’s most oppressed denizens, a familiarity with the plight of the Palestinian people, as well as other liberation struggles across the globe.
The incarceration system in the US and in Occupied Palestine are ultimately extensions of the same imperial project — one that seeks to criminalize the existence of the oppressed, to render them invisible, and to neutralize them as a threat to the dominant social order. This man’s defiance to that project, and all those like him, is among the most beautiful and gravity-defying of gestures that a human being can make. May liberation soon arrive, and with it, the return of all our prisoners home.
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