The Gender Policy Report

09/15/2025

Latina/os have resided in and contributed to our national heritage for centuries. presents an opportunity to learn more about the complex histories of Latino communities, including why borders have been the site of recurring political conflicts. Through learning, we

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09/10/2025

What’s on the “gay agenda?” Labor organizing 🤝 anti-violence 🤝 decrim activism!

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09/03/2025

Safety and dignity in one’s work should be a given. But for many LGBTQ+ workers in the formal & informal service sector, safety is still out of reach.

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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.”



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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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