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What Would a Truly Intersectional Anti-Violence Movement Look Like, Anyway?

Oct 21, 2017

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by

Robin

in anti-violence, Blog Entries, decolonization, intimate partner violence, professional training, social commentary

In 2014, I was getting ready to move across the country, so my activism was mainly limited to reading articles and joining Twitter chats. Here’s what I wrote for that year’s “Decolonizing The Anti-Miolence Movement” conversation, which coincided with Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As always when I post these older pieces, I share this one…
Amplifying Disabled Parents’ Voices: The White House Forum and Beyond

May 20, 2016

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by

Robin

in Activism, Blog Entries, Pregnancy and Parenting

In thirty-five states (and the District of Columbia), children can’t trust that their healthy, happy family will be able to stay together if one or both of their parents is disabled. That means that in almost three quarters of the U.S. the law allows for children to be removed from their parents based on parental…