If you haven’t yet subscribed to Green Tide Rising – a new audio + video series spotlighting Latin America’s Green Wave and what those of us fighting for abortion access and reproductive freedom in the U.S. can learn from this iconic, feminist movement – today’s the day!
Episode three of the series just dropped, and this week it’s all about… SEX! More specifically, connecting the dots between abortion rights, bodily autonomy and sexual liberation.
Artist, organizer and abortion storyteller Favianna Rodriguez shares her journey toward sexual liberation, an intimate story of how her self-managed abortion allowed her to face generational trauma, and why dismantling gender stereotypes around sexuality has become part of her life’s work.
Berkeley professor and author Juana Maria Rodriguez takes listeners through a fascinating history of sex workers in Mexico and Cuba, and how they pushed for social and political change around the “good women vs bad women” tropes. Why should we have to choose between the Santa vs Puta binary?
Mindy Jane Roseman, who directs the programs for global justice and women’s rights at Yale Law School, explains the history of the Comstock Act, how it connects to the patriarchal “morality” precedent, and how it is being resurrected today in the Republican push to ban medication abortion (and birth control!).
This is a ground breaking series that combines both docu-style audio storytelling, with an accompanying mini video series. In the lead up to the U.S presidential election where abortion rights are at stake, there has never been a better time to learn from the Global South how to secure reproductive freedom amidst a hostile landscape.
Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts, follow the series on social media, watch the accompanying video series ENTONCES on Youtube, and learn more about the folks featured in the episodes over at the Green Tide Rising website.
