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Capítulo 086: Racism & Reproductive Rights with Breana Ross · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: where we should up in print in print? Okay, So
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Speaker 1: we received a d M to a couple of d
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Speaker 1: posts their pictures of Cosmo Cosmopolitan magazine, and it shows
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Speaker 1: local was included in a list. This is included in constanpolitans.
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Speaker 1: It's called Joggist, and so I guess it's there like
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Speaker 1: and Kickie Palmer's on the cover, which is super cute,
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Speaker 1: and uh the article is called ten podcasts to help
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Speaker 1: you become a better ally or make you feel seen,
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Speaker 1: And look at that our radio is included in it,
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Speaker 1: radio phonic novela a k a. The cutest thing to
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Speaker 1: the other podcasts that are on there are exceptionally you know,
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Speaker 1: great podcasts like Coaches, The New York Times nineteen no
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Speaker 1: cole Buyers, Why would't you date me? You know? Is
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Speaker 1: this racist? Like you are great company? And uh, well
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Speaker 1: I have yet to be able. Yeah, I have yet
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Speaker 1: to find the magazine. Apparently nobody sells magazines anymore and
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Speaker 1: none of the stores do, And so I've been on
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Speaker 1: the hunt for it to get mal and I a coffee.
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Speaker 1: So check it out. Kiki Palmer's on the cover, We're
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Speaker 1: in it in print. It's super exciting. Yeah, and I'm
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Speaker 1: like trying to find the like digital version. But if
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Speaker 1: it's in print, does it not exist online? Like it's
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Speaker 1: one or the other, it doesn't exist in both places. Well,
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Speaker 1: when I was looking on Cosmo, they have a paywall
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Speaker 1: and so some other stuff is free, and some of
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Speaker 1: their content you need to like unlock it by paying it,
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Speaker 1: and so I mean we should just pay it and
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Speaker 1: see if maybe it's on there. Yeah, locomotives, if any
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Speaker 1: of you come across this issue of Cosmo, can you
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Speaker 1: like send it to us d M S and let
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Speaker 1: us know if you acquire a copy. Can you get
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Speaker 1: four copies so we can give them to our parents? Thanks? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they want to copy. Yeah, I'm still on the hunt.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look tomorrow. If not, I will try and
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Speaker 1: order it online. The only thing about ordering magazines online
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Speaker 1: is that they try and get you to buy for
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Speaker 1: the year. And so I just want four copies of
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Speaker 1: one of the same issue. Nah, it's a very straightforward request.
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Speaker 1: I think it's very reasonable. Yeah, and so we will
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Speaker 1: let you know when we find it. And thanks to
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Speaker 1: the listener who like alerted us. Yeah, we had two
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Speaker 1: listeners d M S on the look at the page
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Speaker 1: and they posted about it. And so that was exciting,
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Speaker 1: I'm what is welcome back? Before we bring on our guests,
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Speaker 1: we want to introduce her and let our listeners know
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Speaker 1: a little bit more about her. She is Brianna Ross,
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Speaker 1: a fierce advocate who works at the intersection of voter access,
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Speaker 1: racial justice, and reproductive rights. She got her start organizing
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Speaker 1: at the University of California Riverside, but now serves as
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Speaker 1: a regional campaigns director with Planned Parenthood Federation of America
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Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She now resides in Washington, but
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Speaker 1: Brianna is originally from California and loves shopping, traveling, reading,
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Speaker 1: and attending concerts in her free time. Brianna, welcome, Thank
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Speaker 1: you for joining us. Hey, thanks so much for having
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Speaker 1: me on. Um. I've been a fan of the podcast
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Speaker 1: for a while, so it's great to see things come
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Speaker 1: pols their called. Yeah, definitely, definitely. I'm so excited that
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Speaker 1: we get to have you on. And where are you
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Speaker 1: calling in from today? I know that you're based in
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Speaker 1: d C. But talk to us about where you where
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Speaker 1: you are, what you're doing all of that. Yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: so you know I'm based in d C um in
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Speaker 1: the average day, but I'm spending the spread of quarantine
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Speaker 1: with my family and southern California. I'm a California native
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Speaker 1: but have been in d C for the past five years.
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Speaker 1: Very cool. And what was the travel journey like for you? Oh,
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Speaker 1: so it's been It's been a journey. UM. So I've
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Speaker 1: been quarantining for the past three and a half months,
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Speaker 1: pretty strictly, you know, not going out all of that
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Speaker 1: social distancing. UM. So, going from not really being around
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Speaker 1: people to being around more people than I had been
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Speaker 1: in months was definitely something UM had on the mask.
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Speaker 1: I was that woman on the flight that had her chlorox.
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Speaker 1: Wife's ready to go, um, And you know, been self
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Speaker 1: quarantining since I've gotten here. You're very brave for traveling,
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Speaker 1: for having traveled UM in the midst of all this, honestly,
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Speaker 1: And I'm really curious too about how your work has
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Speaker 1: been impacted. You're the regional campaigns director with a Planned
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Speaker 1: Parenthood Federation of America, and with everything that's going on,
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Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood provides really essential medical services. So I'd love
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Speaker 1: to hear about how the context that we're living in
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Speaker 1: has impacted your particular work. Yeah, I'm so glad that
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Speaker 1: you asked that. So for my job, I travel the
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Speaker 1: majority of the time. I'm usually on the road at
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Speaker 1: least fifty of the month, UM. So going from being
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Speaker 1: on the road most of the time to going to
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Speaker 1: nesting was definitely difficult. UM As someone who's an organizer
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Speaker 1: as well, a lot of our work is just based
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Speaker 1: in being in person and getting to have human contact.
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Speaker 1: So going from you know, traveling and getting to have
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Speaker 1: conversations and build relationships in person was definitely, you know,
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Speaker 1: difficult as someone who leans on that, not just personally,
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Speaker 1: but you know, for you know, for work, but as
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Speaker 1: far as UM, you know, us providing healthcare, we've definitely
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Speaker 1: had to take more precautions and making sure our folks
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Speaker 1: have you know, the protective gear they need to do
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Speaker 1: their work, and then also leaning more on technology so
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Speaker 1: folks can get access to healthcare through health Are there
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Speaker 1: particular trends, UM that you're hearing about or that you're
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Speaker 1: seeing on your end working with Planned Parenthood in your capacity,
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Speaker 1: Maybe things that are going on um in in our
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Speaker 1: different communities that we haven't heard as much about in
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Speaker 1: the news um reported journalism about COVID, Yes, um. So
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Speaker 1: I think just one thing to kind of level set
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Speaker 1: is I think, one, we're in the middle of a
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Speaker 1: public health crisis and multiple fronts, whether we're talking about
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen or racism. And I think one of the
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Speaker 1: things that's just now starting to be talked about more
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Speaker 1: than it was is how racism is a public health
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Speaker 1: crisis and really how we're at a moment of reckoning
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Speaker 1: with COVID nineteen. And I think in particular, thinking about
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Speaker 1: Black and Latin X communities are being you know, our
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Speaker 1: health being ravage in our economic well being by COVID nineteen,
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Speaker 1: given you know a lot of us are sential workers,
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Speaker 1: and just thinking through you know, the impact of economic
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Speaker 1: inequality and structural racism. So that's something that I haven't
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Speaker 1: seen being talked about a lot um And I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of people when they think about access to
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Speaker 1: healthcare just think about having access and being able to
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Speaker 1: go the doctor. But it's so much more than that.
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Speaker 1: It's having the ability to make a fair wage, It's
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Speaker 1: having the ability to access food and stable housing and
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Speaker 1: all these things you know, contribute to our health and
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Speaker 1: our well being. Okay, so thank you for saying that, Brianna.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you because I've seen on my end,
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Speaker 1: you know, my office where I work is located near
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Speaker 1: a Planned Parenthood and still even in the midst of
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Speaker 1: a pandemic, I see people protesting at the Planned Parenthood's sites,
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Speaker 1: and of course without masks, and of course harassing folks
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Speaker 1: that are just trying to access care, access healthcare. Since
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Speaker 1: we're talking about systemic racism and how we're in the
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Speaker 1: midst of two public health crisis and crisis that we
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Speaker 1: see people focus on plant Parenthood as giving abortion services,
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Speaker 1: but can you talk about the other services and how
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Speaker 1: that's so important to reproductive health and reproductive health, reproductive
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Speaker 1: justice and access one thing um plant parenthood. We are
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Speaker 1: at a proud abortion provider. I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: folks consider UM abortion a dirty word, but it's not.
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Speaker 1: There's no such thing as good or bad abortions. So
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Speaker 1: I want to say that we are a proud to
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Speaker 1: provide abortion services UM. But we also do provide s
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Speaker 1: t I and s CD testing, birth control, cancer screenings,
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Speaker 1: and gender affirming care UM. And there's a wide range
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Speaker 1: of other services UM that folks can find at Planned
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Speaker 1: Parenthood dot Org. I think in particular in this moment,
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Speaker 1: as a lot of folks you know, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: need essential care during this moment, you know they still
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Speaker 1: need to go to Planned Parenthood. I think one of
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Speaker 1: the things that's important to know is regard lists of
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Speaker 1: a public health crisis, people still have sex, people still
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Speaker 1: need condoms, people still need blue, people still need abortions,
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Speaker 1: and then you still need access to contraceptive care. So
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Speaker 1: we have really been committed to providing that care no
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Speaker 1: matter what. Particularly if we're able to put people in
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Speaker 1: a lower risk environment than going to an emergency room,
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Speaker 1: it's important that we're able to kind of, you know,
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Speaker 1: be that line of defense um and be able to
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Speaker 1: has been made much more national and mainstream and public,
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Speaker 1: especially around the issue of black maternal health and infant
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Speaker 1: mortality rates um for black mothers. We're also seeing that
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Speaker 1: people of color are disproportionately affected by COVID nineteen and
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Speaker 1: so you know, people are continuing to UM have children
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Speaker 1: or want to have children and just live lives in
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Speaker 1: addition to surviving the pandemic. So I'm curious for you
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Speaker 1: how the specific health needs of Black women are being
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Speaker 1: talked about at Planned Parenthood UM. So just thinking about
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Speaker 1: Black maternal health UM in particular, Black mothers are disproportionately
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Speaker 1: impacted by having unfavorable outcomes in our health care system.
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Speaker 1: And it's not just when it comes to pregnancy, but
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Speaker 1: it's also you know, labor and delivery and motherhood and
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Speaker 1: this really comes from structural racism UM and really permeates
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Speaker 1: barriers of UM whether you are someone who has a
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Speaker 1: lot of money or who does it. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: know a lot of folks may be familiar with Serena
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Speaker 1: Williams sharing her story around black maternal health and doctors
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Speaker 1: not taking her pain seriously UM, and I think that's
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Speaker 1: something that as an organization, we're doing a lot of
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Speaker 1: internal reflection about how do we address implicit biased within
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Speaker 1: the health care system UM and make sure folks are
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Speaker 1: getting the care that they deserve. When we're talking about
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Speaker 1: you know, pregnancy related death, particularly for black women. It's
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Speaker 1: three times out of white women UM, which just really
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Speaker 1: shows that the health care system is racist. UM. And
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Speaker 1: when we think about you know, women of color at large,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're more at risk UM due to having
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Speaker 1: I think thinking about having less access to healthcare, maybe
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Speaker 1: not having UM jobs that don't provide family leave or
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Speaker 1: health insurance UM. And a lot of us are essential workers.
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Speaker 1: And if we're not having the access to healthcare that
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Speaker 1: we need, you know, we're more likely to forego prenatal care,
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Speaker 1: which allows for more maternal outcomes. And the last thing
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Speaker 1: I said, I'll say kind of connecting things back to
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, is that a lot of the progress that
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Speaker 1: we have made around maternal health outcomes have been backtracked
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Speaker 1: just because you know, social distancing guidance has required loved ones,
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Speaker 1: particularly partners and do lahs that typically serve as you know,
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Speaker 1: advocates and protection UM for black and brown mothers, you know,
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Speaker 1: and they're not able to be in that space. So,
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Speaker 1: if anything, COVID nineteen has really exposed the cracks in
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Speaker 1: the health care system. Yeah. Absolutely. I think since we've
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Speaker 1: started this mini series on look at data called Quarantine confidential.
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Speaker 1: We have been talking about at large, how COVID has
22:37
Speaker 1: just really displayed all of the cracks in our system
22:44
Speaker 1: at like every single level, Like no industry is able
22:49
Speaker 1: to separate themselves from COVID, and also no industry is
22:53
Speaker 1: able to separate themselves from systemic racism. We've seen the
22:56
Speaker 1: reckoning happen at all levels, all like nationwide, you know,
23:02
Speaker 1: and so it's a really interesting time to say the least. Um.
23:06
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you because since we're talking about reckoning,
23:10
Speaker 1: I saw I've been seeing these tweets of folks talking
23:15
Speaker 1: about defunding Planned Parenthood, right and also uh tearing tearing
23:20
Speaker 1: down the buildings because we're tearing down racist monuments, right,
23:24
Speaker 1: And so there there two are being equated, and of course,
23:27
Speaker 1: as someone that supports Planned parenthood, and kind of made
23:30
Speaker 1: me raise my eyebrow, like, what is what is going on?
23:32
Speaker 1: And why are we equating the two? And so I
23:35
Speaker 1: wanted to hear your perspective on that, because I know
23:37
Speaker 1: we talked about it a little bit, you and I.
23:39
Speaker 1: So what are your thoughts when you hear folks equate
23:43
Speaker 1: the two? Yeah, I'm glad that you shed a light
23:47
Speaker 1: on that because you know, I think Twitter as of
23:49
Speaker 1: late has been such a big part of a conversation
23:51
Speaker 1: since folks aren't seeing each other in person. But I
23:54
Speaker 1: think just kind of doubling back. You know, we're going
23:57
Speaker 1: through a reckoning UM as a nation, and that does not,
24:00
Speaker 1: by any means exclude planned parenthood. UM. We're really in
24:04
Speaker 1: a place where we're examining how white supremacy is showing
24:07
Speaker 1: up not just now but in our past UM and
24:11
Speaker 1: really addressing how we're correcting implicit biased within our organization
24:15
Speaker 1: and how we're UM improving our delivery of healthcare UM
24:20
Speaker 1: and education for all people. And I know in this
24:23
Speaker 1: particular moment, we're really committed to making space UM and
24:26
Speaker 1: following the lead of black organizations, particularly reproductive justice organizations,
24:30
Speaker 1: who are really leading this fight. And I think historically,
24:35
Speaker 1: if we're thinking about racism violence as it relates to
24:37
Speaker 1: sexual and reproductive healthcare, we need to start all the
24:40
Speaker 1: way back to the beginning of gynecology, where experiments were
24:44
Speaker 1: done on black bodies based on claims that black women
24:47
Speaker 1: experience less pain. UM. We also need to talk about,
24:51
Speaker 1: you know, how birth control was tested on local income women, UM,
24:55
Speaker 1: particularly Puerto Rican women without their consent um and this
24:58
Speaker 1: really impacts you know, a lot the folk's perspectives and
25:01
Speaker 1: thoughts around you know, how the health care system is
25:05
Speaker 1: built on racism. So I think the one thing I'll
25:09
Speaker 1: say is that planned parenthood is steep with our own
25:12
Speaker 1: structural racism and white supremacy, and it spills out in
25:14
Speaker 1: different ways that we have to acknowledge this publicly, and
25:18
Speaker 1: we have a commitment to do better um and to
25:20
Speaker 1: stand with black women. So I think that's the best
25:23
Speaker 1: way that I can um kind of address what you're
25:26
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Thank you for answering my question.
25:30
Speaker 1: Because we see, you know, as folks that talk, as
25:33
Speaker 1: podcasters that talk about sexuality and sexual wellness, we do
25:37
Speaker 1: see the reproductive justice movement being very white and very
25:44
Speaker 1: um for lack of a better phrase, like pussy power oriented,
25:49
Speaker 1: and you know, and that's definitely something that we want
25:52
Speaker 1: to push back on because reproductive justice is more than
25:56
Speaker 1: just abortions, which is so important that folks that for
26:00
Speaker 1: anyone with the uterus has access to um, but also
26:04
Speaker 1: what else is reproductive justice? What else can it look like?
26:07
Speaker 1: You know, what else? How else can we imagine reproductive justice? Right?
26:11
Speaker 1: It's immigrant rights. It's also housing and safety, and there's
26:14
Speaker 1: so many different facets and angles that we can look
26:17
Speaker 1: at what reproductive justice means. So thank you for giving
26:21
Speaker 1: some historical context to birth control. And you know, in
26:26
Speaker 1: a previous episode we talked about for sterilizations of women
26:28
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, of women of color in Los Angeles.
26:31
Speaker 1: So it's definitely full circle for us and really important
26:34
Speaker 1: to us as podcasters to share the platform and talk
26:37
Speaker 1: about the different facets of reproductive justice. Yeah, I I
26:42
Speaker 1: totally agree. I think just one thing to note too
26:44
Speaker 1: is that we are learning. We are in a space
26:47
Speaker 1: of learning as planned Parenthood. I think the work that
26:50
Speaker 1: we do, I think, particularly through the Federation is very
26:54
Speaker 1: centered on healthcare, education and direct services UM. Through our
26:59
Speaker 1: advocacy or Plant Parenthood Action Fund, we do a lot
27:02
Speaker 1: of work around advocacy around reproductive rights to make sure
27:06
Speaker 1: folks have the ability to access care UM. But I
27:09
Speaker 1: think we can all agree that rights and services are
27:12
Speaker 1: meaningless UM if you aren't able to gain access to them.
27:16
Speaker 1: And I think this is really a place where we've
27:18
Speaker 1: learned a lot from our our reproductive justice partners UM.
27:21
Speaker 1: I think one Plant Parenthood is not a Reproductive Justice organization,
27:26
Speaker 1: and I think that's why we work side by side
27:30
Speaker 1: with our partners UM. The reproductive justice movement in particular
27:34
Speaker 1: was started by black women rooted in black feminist theory
27:37
Speaker 1: and really centers those that are most impacted, so not
27:41
Speaker 1: just black people, but people of color, indigenous folks, UM
27:44
Speaker 1: and making sure that we have what we need to
27:47
Speaker 1: access our healthcare, our values, and our civil rights. And
27:51
Speaker 1: I think the thing that's so essential and important about
27:55
Speaker 1: reproductive justice is that it's built understanding, like you're saying,
27:59
Speaker 1: that there is more to health care than to be
28:02
Speaker 1: able to access services, but to ensure that, you know,
28:05
Speaker 1: if and when we choose to have children, that were
28:07
Speaker 1: able to provide and them with a safe and healthy
28:10
Speaker 1: environment that's free from the threat of of violence and discrimination.
28:14
Speaker 1: So I'm really glad that that you brought up that point.
28:17
Speaker 1: So the the way that this virus and our efforts
28:22
Speaker 1: to you know, minimize the spread and the deaths as
28:27
Speaker 1: a result of COVID, it means that like dating and
28:30
Speaker 1: sex and sexuality are completely different, I will probably never
28:34
Speaker 1: be the same like as they were before. And I'm
28:37
Speaker 1: curious if you had any insights or predictions or projections
28:43
Speaker 1: on your end, especially given the work that you do
28:46
Speaker 1: on how intimacy, dating, sex, and sexuality is gonna the
28:50
Speaker 1: culture around it might shift as a result of this
28:53
Speaker 1: global experience that we're having. I think, as someone who
28:57
Speaker 1: is navigating a relationship in the middle of a pandemic,
29:00
Speaker 1: it is it's definitely different, right, um. Partners can have,
29:04
Speaker 1: you know, different habits for how they social distance or
29:09
Speaker 1: don't social distance. So I think we're honestly going to
29:12
Speaker 1: be relying a lot on on technology to engage into date.
29:17
Speaker 1: I know dating apps have picked up a lot of
29:19
Speaker 1: traction over the past couple of years, so I mean,
29:21
Speaker 1: I think that trend is going up, but I wouldn't.
29:26
Speaker 1: I'm unsure of how like things are gonna look um
29:29
Speaker 1: once things go back to whatever the new normal is.
29:32
Speaker 1: I'm unsure of what the future is going to look
29:34
Speaker 1: like when it comes to dating. But I definitely think
29:36
Speaker 1: folks are going to be more cautious around engaging um
29:40
Speaker 1: folks physically moving forward because of COVID nineteen. Yeah, definitely.
29:44
Speaker 1: I just I recently read downloaded Hinge because I feel like,
29:50
Speaker 1: you know, there's not a ton of other stuff to
29:53
Speaker 1: do socially, but we can chat on the apps, and
29:56
Speaker 1: we can face time, and we can text, and we
29:58
Speaker 1: can call, and it just is so interesting that I
30:03
Speaker 1: feel like we and we is like a very you know,
30:07
Speaker 1: who isn't included in the weed, the royal wea whoever right,
30:09
Speaker 1: whoever identifies this way. I feel like we just came
30:12
Speaker 1: off of a very very like intense social hot streak
30:16
Speaker 1: of like you know, hookup culture and going out and
30:20
Speaker 1: linking up with people and one night stands and all
30:22
Speaker 1: of these things, and now there's a lot of these
30:24
Speaker 1: added layers before you actually meet someone in person. And
30:28
Speaker 1: it's been super interesting to just navigate because it's even
30:31
Speaker 1: like one guy asked me if I wanted to FaceTime,
30:35
Speaker 1: and I was like, honestly, I just need an audio
30:37
Speaker 1: call first, and like the FaceTime is now like the
30:39
Speaker 1: new second date. So it is very weird. Damn, that's interesting.
30:50
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about how I feel because of COVID,
30:56
Speaker 1: and so, so bear with me here while I like
30:59
Speaker 1: pros us this this thought with yall, okay, and so
31:02
Speaker 1: I have been thinking about how COVID has also been
31:05
Speaker 1: bringing to light conversations again in different ways about consent.
31:10
Speaker 1: And so we were talking a lot or Mal and
31:12
Speaker 1: I have been talking about whenever we talk about consent,
31:15
Speaker 1: specifically in the Latin X context, we talk a lot
31:17
Speaker 1: about kissing and hugging and how children are forced to
31:21
Speaker 1: do that without their consent. And so I've been thinking
31:24
Speaker 1: about how COVID has made us reevaluate and reimagine what
31:28
Speaker 1: consent can look like, because literally, your health is at
31:32
Speaker 1: risk now, And so I feel like conversations are being
31:35
Speaker 1: had about consent without actually realizing we're talking about consent
31:40
Speaker 1: here because we're not giving people hugs, we're asking people
31:43
Speaker 1: if we can go over, or asking people if they
31:45
Speaker 1: want to, like even walk to the to the park together,
31:48
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so I think that
31:51
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that this can lead to more conversations about
31:55
Speaker 1: consent and like bodily autonomy. No, I totally agree with that.
31:58
Speaker 1: I think people's under standing of bodily autonomy has suddenly
32:03
Speaker 1: increased with COVID nineteen. So I think I'm hopeful as
32:07
Speaker 1: well that this will hopefully encourage more of a consent
32:10
Speaker 1: culture moving forward. Yeah, it's very interesting that it took
32:15
Speaker 1: something super jarring like this to have us take a
32:19
Speaker 1: step back and re examine our relationship to like personal
32:23
Speaker 1: space and other people's bodies and boundaries, and it's overall
32:27
Speaker 1: a good thing, but like, really it took this very
32:30
Speaker 1: seismic global disaster for us to think about. I think
32:36
Speaker 1: that it's also like, in a way, empowered me to
32:38
Speaker 1: be like, I need you to back up, you know,
32:41
Speaker 1: because in the past, I'd be like, oh, this person
32:43
Speaker 1: is kind of too close, but whatever, I'm going to
32:45
Speaker 1: leave right now. But now it's like, no, I need
32:47
Speaker 1: you to back the funk up, please, you know. And
32:49
Speaker 1: so I think it's also given us, at least for me,
32:52
Speaker 1: it's given me a different way to use my voice
32:55
Speaker 1: in ways that I may have not thought about before.
32:57
Speaker 1: Nice Brianna, I'm wondering does planned parenthood are they? Is
33:01
Speaker 1: plan parenthood giving like adjusted um sorts of like health
33:07
Speaker 1: guidelines and tips for like engaging in healthy sexuality given
33:11
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. I've seen, like you know, New York City
33:14
Speaker 1: has put on like guidelines for sex and sexuality and
33:17
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, And what is the What's planned parenthood basically
33:20
Speaker 1: been saying, how has this adapted the sort of like
33:23
Speaker 1: sexual health information that gets put out there? So yes,
33:27
Speaker 1: people are still going to have sex in the middle
33:29
Speaker 1: of a pandemic, right, So, I think one of the
33:31
Speaker 1: things that we've really been doubling down on is how
33:34
Speaker 1: people can protect themselves and have safe sex UM during
33:37
Speaker 1: the pandemic UM. I know some healthcare providers have been
33:42
Speaker 1: coming out with different graphics of how to engage UM
33:45
Speaker 1: not to you know, engage in sexual activity if you're
33:48
Speaker 1: you know, if you have a fever or if you've
33:50
Speaker 1: been exposed UM COVID nineteen. So I think that we've
33:53
Speaker 1: been trying to empower folks to be able to engage
33:57
Speaker 1: us safely in sexual activity in this moment, and I know,
34:00
Speaker 1: UM we have UM. So one of the things that
34:05
Speaker 1: we have to that's super exciting. It's called sex Said
34:07
Speaker 1: in Casa UM. It's a site that we have UM
34:10
Speaker 1: for sex said in Spanish about how folks can have
34:13
Speaker 1: you know, conversations about safe sex UM within their communities
34:16
Speaker 1: but also with their partners as well. That is amazing.
34:25
Speaker 1: I just like googled it real quick. UM, that's fantastic.
34:29
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it UM and we're gonna link it
34:32
Speaker 1: in our show notes because these resources are really great.
34:36
Speaker 1: I love that they're in Spanish. Thanks for sharing that.
34:38
Speaker 1: I think that will be really helpful to our listeners
34:41
Speaker 1: because these resources are really amazing and I think they're
34:44
Speaker 1: going to be really helpful for our Spanish speaking listeners
34:48
Speaker 1: or folks that just want to share this information with
34:50
Speaker 1: their family members. This is a really great tip. Thanks
34:54
Speaker 1: for sharing this with Thanks for sharing this with us, Brianna.
34:57
Speaker 1: Absolutely So, just to um sort of round out and
35:01
Speaker 1: wrap up our interview, Brianna, where can folks get I
35:06
Speaker 1: guess the best most relevant information about UM planned parenthood
35:11
Speaker 1: health services, especially during COVID nineteen and if folks do
35:15
Speaker 1: want to contribute and help support plant planned parent put
35:19
Speaker 1: planned parenthood efforts during this time, UM, how can they
35:22
Speaker 1: do that? Yes, So I'll give you a couple of
35:25
Speaker 1: resources and then some things that folks can do if
35:27
Speaker 1: they want to get involved. So UM, for more information
35:30
Speaker 1: around the services that planned Parenthood provides, you can go
35:33
Speaker 1: to Planned Parenthood dot org um. If you want to
35:36
Speaker 1: get active through our advocacy arm, you can go to
35:39
Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood Action Fund dot org um. And then two
35:42
Speaker 1: plugs for our our Twitter pages. M One of our
35:46
Speaker 1: Twitter pages that's really awesome is pp Black calm Um
35:50
Speaker 1: and I'm happy to send you the link to that
35:52
Speaker 1: as well, and then latinos for PP as well. And
35:56
Speaker 1: I know a lot of the questions that I've been
35:58
Speaker 1: getting in this moment UM where a lot of folks
36:00
Speaker 1: are getting politicides is like how can we plug in?
36:03
Speaker 1: How can we support? And I think our number one
36:05
Speaker 1: way that we're asking folks to support in this moment
36:07
Speaker 1: is to support the Movement for Black Lives UM, particularly
36:11
Speaker 1: following the organizers lead UM in their respective communities UM.
36:16
Speaker 1: And I think one thing the left is a couple
36:19
Speaker 1: of weeks back, Plan Parenthood came out in support of
36:22
Speaker 1: defund the police UM, which really means investing in community
36:26
Speaker 1: based solutions such as education and healthcare instead of militarizing
36:29
Speaker 1: the police. UM. So we encourage folks to really support
36:32
Speaker 1: the Movement for Black Lives And then second, UM, we're encouraged.
36:36
Speaker 1: You know, it is an election year, so we do
36:39
Speaker 1: encourage folks to register to vote UM, find your polling
36:42
Speaker 1: place UH, and really research your ballot. There are a
36:46
Speaker 1: lot of great UM sexual and reproductive health champions that
36:50
Speaker 1: are running this year UM, and it's really a great
36:52
Speaker 1: opportunity to to flex our political power UM, particularly in
36:55
Speaker 1: black and brown communities. Thank you so much for all
36:59
Speaker 1: of the sources and information that you shared with us today.
37:02
Speaker 1: This has been so amazing and I know that our
37:04
Speaker 1: listeners are going to love this interview and find it
37:07
Speaker 1: really informative and helpful for them. Of course, thank you
37:11
Speaker 1: for having me, okay, Brianna, So for our locomotives that
37:14
Speaker 1: want to keep up with your work, maybe more personally,
37:17
Speaker 1: more intimately, where can they find you? Yes, you can
37:20
Speaker 1: find me on Instagram at Brianna Nicole zero seven seven. Amazing, amazing,
37:27
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37:31
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