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Menstrual Equity Legislation

Menstrual Equity Legislation

FromThe Gender Justice Brief


Menstrual Equity Legislation

FromThe Gender Justice Brief

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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Feb 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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In this episode, Erin Hart and Erica Soloman (Exec. Director at NCJW MN) discuss HF44, the Menstrual Equity Bill.

NCJW Minnesota is pushing for the "menstrual equity bill" (HF 44 and SF 50) to fund menstrual products in public and charter schools.
One in five students experiences "period poverty," and many miss class without access to menstrual products.
NCJW Minnesota has distributed over 200,000 menstrual products since 2018 but seeks a systemic solution.
The bill has bipartisan support but faced opposition and transphobic language. High school graduates, organizations, and Girl Scouts testified in support.
NCJW Minnesota is also part of the Communities Combating Hate coalition working on legislation against hate crimes and bias incidents.

You can read HF44 here and find NCJW MN here
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Visit the "Gender Justice" Website here and "Unrestrict Minnesota" here.
Erin Hart, Communications Director at Gender Justice, hosting the Gender Justice Brief.
The GJB is produced by Gunther Michael Jahnl & Audra Grigus.

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Released:
Feb 3, 2023
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Podcast episode

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This is the podcast of Gender Justice. We fight for Gender Equity by dismantling barriers and expanding protections so that all people can thrive regardless of their gender, gender expression, and sexual orientation. We work for: economic justice, reproductive freedom and justice, freedom from gender based violence, and for trans & LGBQ liberation at work, in public, in school, in healthcare, and more. We are facing a historic opportunity to make real change in Minnesota with the first pro-reproductive freedom state legislature. Join us - and stand up to fight for our rights.