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Today…
is the start of Pride Month I don’t know if you heard it’s all we’ve talked about since the beginning of May.
I know there’s more, but I’m being tapped to make homemade oat milk brown sugar frapps for the children, I gotta gooooo
Abortion
The New Yorker | The Unique Dangers of the Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear a Mississippi Abortion Case | Amy Davidson Sorkin
New York Times | Clinics Close, but Abortion Continues | Jane E. Brody
NPR | Biden's Budget Proposal Reverses A Decades-Long Ban On Abortion Funding | Sarah McCammon
POLITICO | Challenge to Roe v. Wade puts spotlight on FDA review of abortion pill rules | Alice Ollstein
Washington Post | Overruling ‘Roe v. Wade’ wouldn’t promote the rule of law | Ruth Marcus
Arkansas
Common Dreams | Abortion Access Is at Stake, But We Will Do Everything We Can to Keep Our Clinic's Doors Open | Lori Williams
Iowa
Sioux City Journal | Abortions in Iowa up, access down as critical policy rulings loom | Mike Brownlee, Erin Murphy
Louisiana
KEDM-FM | New Bill Pits Anti-Abortion Groups Against The Health Department Over Controversial ‘Abortion Reversal’ Method | Rosemary Westwood
Minnesota
MinnPost | On the constant fight for abortion access in Minnesota | Shayla Walker
New Jersey
NJToday | Senator Joseph Cryan said he would outlaw abortion in most cases | Amanda Rapace
NJToday | Outlawing abortion would kill women | Amanda Rapace
Texas
Dallas Observer | Dallas Reproductive Rights Protesters Look to Future After Texas Passes New Abortion Laws | Steven Monacelli
LGBTQ
CNBC | Coming Supreme Court decision in major LGBT rights case seen as bellwether of conservative court | Tucker Higgins
Reuters | Major rulings including Obamacare loom for U.S. Supreme Court | Lawrence Hurley
Fast Company | Work has long been a battlefield for trans employees | Kathleen Davis
The Hill | Pride Month organizers to draw attention to anti-transgender laws | Marina Pitofsky
INSIDER | TikTok's algorithm is promoting homophobia and anti-trans violence on For You Pages, experiment finds | Joshua Zitser
NBC | Meet the queer mechanics working to repair a 'toxic industry' | Emma Banks
USA Today | How a Supreme Court decision last year is reshaping the legal battle over LGBTQ discrimination | John Fritze
Kentucky
The Washington Blade | LGBTQ equality rights at center of Kentucky state contract dispute | Brody Levesque
WHAS-TV | Kentucky lawmakers to pre-file 3 bills supporting LGBTQ+ community | Cj Daniels
New Jersey
Herald News | New Jersey's LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum a 'mindset shift' to help center diverse voices | Sammy Gibbons
Oklahoma
KOCO-TV | Lawmaker explains why Okla. Senate didn't hear bill to ban transgender girls from girls sports teams | Dillon Richards
Virginia
WTOP-FM | Politics, religion collide in transgender debate at Virginia school | Nick Iannelli
Pregnancy & Parenting
Time Magazine | Pandemic Generation: Finding Optimism In This Year's Babies | Susanna Schrobsdorff
Texas
The Guardian | ‘It’s easy to dismiss Black women’s lives’: Texas drags feet on maternal mortality crisis | Mary Tuma
Reproductive Health & Justice
The Lily | These two Black women are on a mission to beat period poverty. Pads and tampons aren’t enough, they say. | Caroline Kitchener
Los Angeles Times | Here's the latest on the Violence Against Women Act, which is up for reauthorization by Congress | Julia Barajas
New York Times | A Vaccine Side Effect Leaves Women Wondering: Why Isn’t the Pill Safer? | Apoorva Mandavilli
Florida
Tallahassee Democrat | Tallahassee stepping up to help end period poverty | LaShawn Gordon
Illinois
Chicago Sun-Times | Legislation requiring menstrual products in school bathrooms advances to governor’s desk | Rachel Hinton
Work & Money
AP | Black women's next targets: Governorships and Senate seats | Bill Barrow
Forbes | 76% Of Students Learn More About The Biology Of Frogs Than The Human Female Body, According To Study | Alice Broster
New York Times | Efforts to Advance Racial Equity Baked In Throughout Biden’s Budget | Michael Shear
Bloomberg | Biden Targets Racial, Social Inequities With Vast Spending Push | Gregory Korte
Yahoo Sports | Students of the game: Women moving in, moving up into NFL scouting jobs | Jori Epstein