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Introducing Baby Boom! Lawyered, a new micropodcast coming to you 2-3 times a week—every week—from @angryblacklady.blacksky.app. Tune in this summer wherever you get your podcasts for the latest in repro news, legislative trends, state and federal court updates, and more!
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It’s International Sex Workers’ Day, which raises awareness about the exploitative conditions sex workers face. In April, Delilah Saul reported from a vigil for the eight women killed by Rex Heuermann—most of who were sex workers—emphasizing how sex workers’ lives and deaths are not for consumption.
The right isn’t content with just going after birthright citizenship. If they dismantle the 14th Amendment, they’re going to go after the 19th Amendment next, argue @hegemommy.bsky.social and @angryblacklady.blacksky.app on the latest episode of Boom! Lawyered. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
This week on Boom! Lawyered, @hegemommy.bsky.social and @angryblacklady.blacksky.app discuss why conservatives are skilled at changing the narrative—and how they’re using that playbook to try to criminalize medication abortion. rewirenews.link/4wJFMhC
The Fallout, RNG’s feminist legal analysis newsletter on abortion, contraception, and the courts, is back this week! Sign up today to get @hegemommy.bsky.social's expertise in your inbox every other week 💌 rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/
When @blairimani.bsky.social made a video about abortion during her pregnancy, she was hoping for maximum political impact. Instead, it only reached people who already agreed with her. Listen to this week’s episode of B*tch, Listen! wherever you get your podcasts.
The internet taught millions of people about power, oppression, and organizing. But our institutions still haven’t changed. What gives? This Thursday on B*tch, Listen, @angryblacklady.blacksky.app talks to @blairimani.bsky.social about what actually turns information into action. Don’t miss it!
Many true crime creators do care about disability. What’s missing isn’t intent—it’s education. @vilissathompson.bsky.social on how deeper disability justice knowledge could change the stories we tell and lead to better storytelling. 🎧 B*tch, Listen • Out now
Disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social explains how aging out of childhood programs leaves families fighting for the bare minimum. Those systemic failures create desperation. And ignoring them lets ableist narratives prevail. B*tch, Listen. Out now.
Forcing people to carry pregnancies to term without the resources to raise disabled children is ableism. @angryblacklady.blacksky.app talks with @vilissathompson.bsky.social about how reproductive injustice and abandoning caregivers set people up to fail. 🎧 New B*tch Listen • Out now.
This drops tomorrow. Disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social joins B*tch, Listen, hosted by @angryblacklady.blacksky.app, to lay out how true crime reframes violence against disabled people as “mercy”—and what gets erased in the process. 🎧 New episode • Jan. 29, 2026
When disabled people are killed by family members or caregivers, true crime often reframes the violence as “mercy” or caregiver stress, shifting sympathy away from the victim. Disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social explains this narrative on B*tch, Listen. 🎧 New • Jan. 29, 2026
Schools remain closed in Minneapolis today after an ICE agent fatally shot Good, a 37-year-old queer mother of three. Advocates say her death spotlights how ICE operations can harm families. In 2025, thirty-two immigrants died in ICE custody and its agents shot at least 15 people.
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🧵Today, voters across the country will cast their ballots in state and local elections— some of which could have serious impacts on abortion access and other reproductive justice initiatives. Here are the races we’re following:
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