Imagine this: A young person walks in to a health care provider’s office armed with the knowledge they need and deserve about their bodies, their sexual lives and their choices. They are empowered and knowledgeable. Their diverse lives and backgrounds are centered. And their experience isn’t exceptional—it’s typical.
Author: Monica Edwards
Monica Edwards is an If/When/How RJ fellow at URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity. Originally from Marion, Alabama, she received her B.A. from The University of Alabama and received her Juris Doctor from The University of Alabama School of Law. During law school she interned with her hometown’s District Attorney’s office and was summer student legal counsel at Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, one of many legal clinics at Harvard Law School practicing family law. Also during law school, she worked in Alabama Law’s Domestic Violence Clinic under the late Elizabeth A. Whipple where she represented victims of domestic violence. Her mentors are former professors and social justice legal scholars Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. When Monica isn’t pushing back against misogyny and injustice, she is watching Scandal, Grey's Anatomy and How to Get Away with Murder.
We’re Not Okay
After actor Evan Rachel Wood shared on Twitter that she was a survivor of intimate partner violence that eventually led to self-harm, others began telling their own truths—building an avalanche of testimony about violence that builds on the explosion of #MeToo and expands it into critical spaces.