The Gender Policy Report

07/11/2025

People with disabilities are leading a revolution in how we think about caregiving.
“Ableism is embedded in the obtuse bureaucracy caregivers and disabled adults must navigate.”



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From income caps to inaccessible transit, ableism is built into our caregiving systems. It’s time to reform caregiving through a disability justice lens.

07/05/2025

It's International Day of Cooperatives!

Co-ops offer sustainability, workplace democracy, and can promote gender & racial equity –as long as they have internal rules & value intersecting identities. Learn more about how co-ops can promote gender equality: https://ow.ly/ONJR50W551f

Worker co-ops radically re-envision the typical organization of labor and profit. They can also promote gender equity in the workplace.

07/03/2025

The jurists who wrote Griswold could not have imagined the profound reinvention of - and challenges to - privacy in our digitally-mediated, AI world. How can we protect people from image abuse, while also safeguarding Internet users’ ability to engage in consensual s*xual expression?

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06/20/2025

Women, trans people, and s*xual minorities seeking asylum often face additional legal obstacles.

“Including gender or s*x as a protected category in the refugee definition might reduce one barrier for these applicants.”



From the 🗃️:

With yet another announcement of changes to the U.S. refugee program, it is necessary to assess the program and what Trump’s policy changes will likely mean in the lives of refugees and asylum seekers, including their specific implications for women.The passage of the 1980 Refugee Act established ...

06/19/2025

This , we honor the LGBTQ+ ancestors, activists, artists, scholars, and others who fought oppressive actors, systems, and laws. We are in your debt, and we repay it by continuing the fight.

06/17/2025

The right to privacy has generally been reserved for those who conform most closely to dominant (hetero)s*xual norms. What legal frameworks could promote a more robust vision of erotic justice?

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06/06/2025

📅 June 7th marks the 60th Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut. 📜 🏛️

While the courts affirmed the right to privacy in Griswold, they have declined to affirm this right in cases involving producers and distributors of commercial s*xual representation. If we don’t have a right to purchase our privacy, what does this mean for mail-order abortion access?

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06/02/2025

Griswold opened the door for women to exercise greater control over their reproduction but also enabled market intrusions into women’s s*xual privacy. Have privacy rights been a double-edged sword for feminists?

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05/29/2025

In practice, privacy rights were always limited by race and class. Has relying upon privacy rights deterred the growth of strong, cross-racial reproductive justice movements?

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05/20/2025

📆 ⚖️ Sixty years ago, a legal battle waged by clinicians in Connecticut changed everything.

On June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court struck down a “Little Comstock” law in Connecticut banning the provision of contraception. The case? Griswold v. Connecticut. Their reasoning? The constitution protects (married) couples' right to privacy.

For those concerned about reproductive, gender, and s*xual justice, privacy matters. █▬▬

Privacy rights would serve as a legal cornerstone in later rulings that expanded reproductive and s*xual freedom and LGBTQ rights. But those rights were never universally enjoyed or accepted by the political Right. As some Supreme Court Justices question the right to privacy articulated in Griswold, we asked five feminist scholars, judges, and lawyers to weigh in on Griswold’s legacy:

▪️ Who has and has not been afforded privacy rights? 💭

▪️ Why and how does privacy matter today? 💭

▪️ What alternate legal or policy frameworks might advance the unfinished work of gender and s*xual justice? 💭

Read Privacy Matters: The Legacy of Griswold
https://ow.ly/N7nE50VVcVB

05/15/2025

The form and function of families evolve over time. So should family policy.

“The problems faced by adults who cannot or do not wish to marry stem from a failure of imagination and initiative and could be easily and comprehensively addressed.”



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Marriage equality was a victory, but more adults are opting for non-traditional domestic and family structures. Policymakers can do more to protect all adult relationships equally under the law.

05/09/2025

Care work - including child care - is the backbone of our economy. But providers often make poverty wages.

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The childcare and preschool labor market has long been characterized by low wages and high turnover despite ample evidence that quality care is critical to child development. That’s because, as families struggle with the cost of early care and education (ECE), teachers and care providers describe ...