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Michigan City Pride Fest Join us as we celebrate love, diversity, and community in the heart of Michigan City! Michigan City Pride Fest is a joyful celebration of equality, acceptance, and the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ i...

Who's going? We're going! See you there? Of course we will! Say it loud -- No TERFs on our turf!!! #noterfsonourturf! #Genderequality means everybody in, nobody out.

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Women's bodies are not the possessions of men, to do with as they please. No one's body is the possession of anyone else. It's NO until someone says clearly and definitively yes. There is no hazy, blurry area. No means no.

Our Prez speaking out for #genderequality @ Indivisible NWI's @50501movement.bsky.social #HandsOff protest in MI City IN. It was mighty cold on the shores of Lake MI but 4-500 peeps shivered & marched! Get Your Filthy Bans Off Our Bodies!
@nationalnow.bsky.social

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Supreme Court considers South Carolina’s effort to strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding - SCOTUSblog The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that, at first glance, appears to involve only a technical interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act. But the dispute has drawn wides...

Planned Parenthood is the only health care provider in areas that would otherwise be #healthcaredeserts providing prenatal & postnatal care, cancer screenings, contraception, etc. This is anti life misogynistic b.s.

YouTube video by Unitarian Universalist Church in Reston "What Happens When a Woman" by Alexandra Olsavsky - UUCR Girls' and Women's Special Choir Project

What happens?

YouTube video by Rox Davidson Nashville School of the Arts - Cantabile: What Happens When A Woman? - Alexandra Olsavsky

What happens when a woman takes power? #FAFO

Jerry Boyle, Southside Irish Chicago atty & Colette Morrow, activist & instigator, creator of Women's Studies & Sexuality programs in many countries. 2 power hitters, 1 night in IN.
Register @ Eventbrite to get zoom link. tinyurl.com/h77ux88b
#resist #protest #power @nationalnow.bsky.social

Women have been on the frontlines of every social movement in our history which is why they fear the power of protest, esp when that power is in the hands of women. Not in NW IN? Get the virtual link when you rsvp @eventbrite shorturl.at/LerXn
@50501movement.bsky.social @nationalnow.bsky.social

We're doing a whole webinar on this on March 31st!
Know your rights, protect your rights, fight for your rights.
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The power of protest in these times. Know your rights when protesting, what to do when they're violated. Take protest to the next level of social change. Women have always led social change & we're doing it this time, too. #resist #nwi #protest #women #dei @nationalnow.bsky.social @msmagazine.com

#piday is a good day to celebrate the achievements of #women in #mathematics - there've been a helluva lot of them! #womenshistorymonth

#WomensHistoryMonth
Well behaved women rarely make history.

ICYMI IN Sens Young & Banks voted for your student athlete daughter to have her vagina "inspected" to make sure she's a "biological female." Using trans athletes as an excuse to molest our girls is still molestation. You okay with this? www.young.senate.gov www.banks.senate.gov

The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project explores the meaning of freedom through the example of one extraordinary life. #Tubman200

Today is Harriet Tubman Day!

Explore our 2022 project that pays tribute to Tubman's legacy—as an abolitionist, diviner, healer, nurse, naturalist, and beyond:

PERIOD EQUITY: when everyone has access to period products. Removing stigma about menstruation; educating children; advocating for policies that eliminate discriminatory taxes on products and removing other barriers. #periodequity #endperiodpoverty #equality #reprohealth #loveyourbody

Sat, 3/8 we celebrated #womensday with 450 of our friends in Valparaiso. Photos coming soon! We also added a period products drive that collected THOUSANDS of products for The Caring Place, Hilltop House & our own Period Equity Project. #periodequity #womensrights

SAT, 03/08, M'ville, 11a-2p @Dean & Barbara Center
IN's maternal mortality rate for Black women is 2-3x higher than for white women.
Recent anti-repro rights laws disproportionately impact Black women.
Black maternal health MUST b front & center in work for repro justice!
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#blackculture

SAT, 03/08, 3-5p Virtually everywhere!

Celebrate Internat'l Working Women's Day with song, dance, poetry, & these powerful women who've been on the ground fighting - and they're not giving any ground.
Be ready to be inspired and motivated! Register at bit.ly/defiant8
#punchnazis #resist
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SAT, 03/08 12-2P, VALPO, Courthouse Square
Rally for women's rights and full gender equality - for all genders!

Donate to our #periodproducts drive. All donations will go to
- The Caring Place;
- Hilltop Neighborhood House,
and
- NWI NOW's Period Equity Project
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Whatever you're feeling, however you're dealing (or not) with it all, you're not alone. Fact is you are the majority. And we are mobilizing.

Sat, we mark #WomensDay by mobilizing w/ hundreds of thousands of women & allies across the country & around the globe. #Mobilize w/ us. #YANA

Biography: Loretta Ross Loretta Ross is an academic and activist who has dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice.

"When people think the same idea and move in the same direction, that's a cult. When people think many different ideas and move in one direction, that's a movement".
-- Loretta Ross
#WomensHistoryMonth

www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

#Resist! Whatever you do, do not hire a legit press sec'y to hold press conferences w/ @freespeechtv.bsky.social @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social & others kicked out of #trumpsterfire 's WH to broadcast truth
@aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @pressley.house.gov @repilhan.bsky.social

Happy #RegionDay! Happy 219 to my fellow Regionites, Region Rats, or whatever you prefer.
cr: 219 Day, Facebook

‘Thank You, Mike Johnson' Campaign Donates Emergency Contraception—in the House Speaker’s Name - Ms. Magazine Cadence OTC's ‘Thank You, Mike Johnson' Campaign Donates Emergency Contraception—in the Republican House Speaker’s Name

Whenever House Speaker Mike Johnson or another political figure spreads misinformation or anti-contraception rhetoric, Cadence OTC donates emergency contraception to U.S. women—including in Johnson’s home state of Louisiana—in his name.

From the mothership @nationalnow.bsky.social
#DisruptNOW

Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:

www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

A South Bend bookstore owner’s must-read titles for Black History Month Kathy Burnette of Brain Lair Books gives us several reading suggestions for Black History Month.

We <3 Brain Lair Books
Black owned, queer owned women owned AND 100% accessible! #BlackHistoryMonth and always

I came here to say that we are the National Organization for Motherfukking Women and nobody owns us. We are no one's chattel. We are no one's incubators. We are every race, every gender, every ability, every sexual orientation and we are not afraid. #resist #disrupt #disruptNOW