Vital words from _ashdashlee_ , ED of the highlandercenter in Tennessee. Please take special note of the demands section and stay up to date at
DefendBlackLives.org &
M4BL.org. Excerpted from the sistersong_woc
#RJ4BlackLives Town Hall: “Good afternoon everybody, my name is Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, the homies call me Ash. I use she, her, hers pronouns, and I'm the first Black woman Executive Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee, and an active leader of the movement for Black lives. I feel like it's important to set the record straight around what Reproductive Justice is and why that's so important to the demands that the movement for Black lives is lifting up right now. So as SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice, it is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. I'm going to say that last part of the definition. Because I think – toward...