Learning from the ‘COVID War’
Preventing pandemic destruction is not just a question of “how to.” It is a question of organizing power from below.
social movements
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Read more: COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence? COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence?
During the pandemic, disability rights have been negotiable and vulnerable to sacrifice in service of the needs of able-bodied, neurotypical people.
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Read more: The Centrality of Social Movements in Addressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic The Centrality of Social Movements in Addressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our research shows that social movement activism is an integral part of service delivery for sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence.
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Read more: Health Justice Meets Reproductive Justice Health Justice Meets Reproductive Justice
When people cannot obtain abortion care, they incur social, financial, and physical costs that are difficult to bear.
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Read more: ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology
Our ability to breathe is shaped by the laws and politics that govern the use of technologies, and that validate racialized assumptions about people.
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Read more: How Social Movements Have Facilitated Access to Abortion During the Pandemic How Social Movements Have Facilitated Access to Abortion During the Pandemic
Further on-the-ground innovations, outside the courtroom and across state borders, will be needed to meet future challenges to abortion access.
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Read more: Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City
Where a health state is intertwined with carceral logics, enforcement becomes coercive.
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Read more: What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’? What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’?
Social movements’ impact need not be salutatory, as is evident by the success that the anti-vax movement has had during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic
Activists in the access-to-medicines movement have mobilized to combat the threat of vaccine/therapeutic apartheid during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic
The pandemic showed that community-based supports can foster safety and accountability without requiring state intervention.
