“We hope that our message of love and support around abortion is a universal message that would touch anyone who hears it. We hope it softens people—and that instead of vilifying people who have abortions, it moves people to think of loved ones.”
Author: Charmaine Lang
Charmaine Lang is a proud member of the Forward Together program Echoing Ida, a community of Black women and non-binary writers disrupting oppressive narratives and seeding a world where we can thrive. As a North Carolina based writer and researcher, her work focuses on the intersections of race, gender and wellness. Charmaine is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her dissertation research uses ethnographic methods to examine the social and economic determinants of self-care practices among Black women activists in Milwaukee. With her leisure time, Charmaine enjoys reading the stories of Black women, traveling domestically and internationally and pursuing new food experiences.