Policy/Politics

People in the North are frustrated because they don’t feel like city people are talking about this at all, they don’t see it coming up in the newspapers — they only see the other kind of mining. And it’s pretty important.

Women’s power is in our ability to find ways to support each other and tap into whatever skill sets we bring to the table.

As we reawaken to the control issues related to women’s bodies again… a reflection on the tension between two competing purposes. “One is social control — ensuring that people conform to social norms, standards and ideologies by providing services that control those who are deemed unworthy or deviant.”

People born today in this country will likely have fewer rights and opportunities to pursue their own lives than people in my generation have had.

It can be hard to navigate how to create more environmentally friendly homes while we also need tens of thousands of additional housing units.

Parents and Politics, Mamas First Act, “Don’t Say Gay” Bills

“The November election is going to be really important for people who care about reproductive rights in the state.”

Support is everything.

We also have never had a Black woman in the senate. There are five Black women running this year to change that. Our Latina representation is also in danger in the senate with the retirements of Senator Patricia Torres Ray and Melisa Lopez Franzen. So, we can do better.

Even if you restructure the prison system, even if you abolish the prison system, you will still have child welfare, and child welfare — like every system — adapts. In Los Angeles, the largest group of people who are on death row come from the foster care system.

The Minnesota Senate districts that need to be convinced to fund state-mandated special education.

Part of our 12-part series of Women in Politics