Author: Leslie Absher

Leslie Absher is a journalist, essayist and author. Her memoir Spy Daughter, Queer Girl was published by Latah Books and was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Lesbian Nonfiction Triangle Publishing Award. She is a regular contributor to Ms. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Salon, Independent., Greek Reporter and San Francisco Magazine. She was awarded an honorable mention for non-fiction by Bellevue Literary Review and lives in Oakland, Calif., with her lawyer and comic book writer wife. Visit her at leslieabsher.com.Visit her at leslieabsher.com.

Campus Advocates Stand Strong to Provide Peers With Accurate Abortion Information

Leslie Absher

As the abortion rights landscape changes from week to week, peer advocates are doubling down, speaking out and committing to what they’ve been doing all along: sharing accurate information about safe and legal abortion.

“Young people are fundraising for their loved ones to get abortions out of state, they are speaking out against draconian state abortion restrictions, and even organizing for their campuses to make emergency contraception, condoms and medication abortion easily accessible to the students who need them.”

South Korean Election Could Be a Turning Point for Women’s Rights

Leslie Absher

Earlier this month, Korea’s presidential election brought the conservative candidate Yoon Suk-yeol and his decidedly anti-feminist party into power. But the groundswell of activism and resistance won’t go away. In fact, some think it will only grow stronger.

Biden Restores Rights for LGBTQ Refugees—Giving More Reasons to Celebrate Pride

Leslie Absher

Being a member of the LGBTQ community is punishable by life in prison in countries such as Uganda, making the acceptance of refugees and role of LGBTQ resettlement programs in countries such as the U.S. essential.

We Have to Win This Time: Women, Girls and LGBT Fight for Rights in Myanmar

Women, Girls and LGBT Fight for Rights in Myanmar: “We Have to Win This Time”

Leslie Absher

Women, girls and members of the LGBT community are hitting the streets in cities throughout Myanmar to protest the country’s military takeover. The junta has erased the advances women have made and taken the country back to its hyper patriarchic past, which includes decades of repression and violence against Myanmar’s ethnic communities.

Arts & Entertainment

Standing Strong and Moving On

Leslie Absher

The 46 writers represented in the new collection “She’s Got This!,” and the work they share in its pages, make clear that profound social change comes when women’s lives are made public.

Arts & Entertainment

Getting Closer to Cleo

Leslie Absher

A young Mixtec woman is at the center in Roma—but do we really know her?

Telling Her Story to Change History

Leslie Absher

Learning English and adjusting to life in America wasn’t easy—but the hardest part for Puja Mapchen was feeling like she wasn’t supposed to talk about her life growing up in a refugee camp.

Bridging Lives and Homelands

Leslie Absher

While Trump is talking about closing borders and deporting Muslims and Brexit begins to take shape, a women’s migrant organization in Greece offers Europe and the world a startling alternative: solidarity.

Global

Where Writers Aren’t Free

Leslie Absher

Five decades of military rule in Myanmar have kept it politically isolated, economically undeveloped and, in terms of freedom of expression, very unfree. That may be about to change. In […]

From Iraq to North Dakota: The Global Sex-Trafficking Crisis

Leslie Absher

Recent reports have surfaced about the sexual enslavement of women and girls by the so-called Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL), an extremist group that has overtaken territories in Northern Iraq […]

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