Renee Bracey Sherman
@renee.bsky.social
reproductive justice activist • co-author of LIBERATING ABORTION 📒• co-host of The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion 🎙️• founder of We Testify • Communication PhD Student • “The Beyoncé of Abortion Storytelling”
BREAKING: SCOTUS keeps mifepristone available on current terms, including mailing of the abortion drug. Thomas and Alito each authored a separate dissent. New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: SCOTUS keeps mifepristone available on current terms, including mailing of the abortion drug
Thomas and Alito each authored a separate dissent.
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Some of the essential reads on reproductive health, rights, and justice from @jennieindc.bsky.social's bookshelf, many by authors she's had the joy of interviewing on the podcast! If you haven't already, we hope you'll grab your own copies and dig in. Listed in comments with @bookshop.org links 📚
🌱 NEW EP 🌱 @renee.bsky.social and @byreginamahone.bsky.social proudly share their ab0rtion stories, which led one of them to realize she wanted to be a mom, and confirmed for the other that she didn’t. Plus: s*x after ab0rtion. 🎧LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3PQ
Let’s talk misoprostol-only abortions! www.instagram.com/reel/DX0KtRe...
As Dr. Angela Davis has told us, "freedom is a constant struggle."
i'm a WRITER. i will not be okay with you using an LLM that plagiarizes thousands of people like me, who are struggling to make a living and continuing to write, despite the state of the world. PLEASE LEAVE ME TO HAVE AI ALONE.
what's actually happening is that my opposition to AI reminds you that there's a part of you that knows it's immoral to use it. and trying to convince me is just trying to convince yourself that you're a good person even if you use it. rinse and repeat for watching Harry Potter, etc.
i will never understand why people need to be validated in their problematic choices by me specifically. like why are you trying to convince me that your use of AI is chill? just use it if you want, and I'll think you suck for it if i want. damn.
A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ovarian cyst at risk of rupture, a federal judge ruled. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/07/t...
Texas judge denies petition to release woman detained in Minnesota with medical condition • Minnesota Reformer
A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ...
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📢 Join us for a book talk with Grace Howard on The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood, in discussion with @renee.bsky.social. 🗓️ Mar 2 | 12–1:15 PM ET 📍 In Person - AUWCL Yuma Building (Y115) | Free & open to all (recorded) 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/5fzc7dvf
In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6mo agoICONIC
This Black History Month we honor the frameworks Black leaders have created to survive, resist and transform the world, through the words of @renee.bsky.social, author of Liberating Abortion and the founder and former Executive Director of We Testify.
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.
“It’s Time”: Virginia Lawmakers Ask Voters to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting
Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They
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In August, our neighbor, friend, and handyman Ervin was kidnapped by ICE from my friend’s house during the ICE raids in Washington, DC. Please join me in donating to their Go Fund Me for his immigration representation and to bring him home. We miss him. Thanks for your support. 🫶🏽 Link is in my bio.
Cardi B called out ICE at her show last night: “Bitch, if ICE come in here we’re gonna jump they asses. Bitch, I got some bear mace in the back. They ain’t taking my fans, bitch”
Thank you @signsjournal.org for the vital work you do and to @carmenriosss.bsky.social @profkori.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social for your thoughtful (and humbling!) considerations of All We Want is Everything!
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society@signsjournal.org · 6mo agoNew Short Takes! @renee.bsky.social, @carmenriosss.bsky.social, & @profkori.bsky.social discuss @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy! And Chemaly responds to the commentaries, expanding on the themes in her book. Check it out free!
I want people to understand this. For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence. This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
Drucati@bananarepublicans.bsky.social · last yr.What we all seemingly failed to understand is just how many of our "countrymen" were perfectly willing to resort to treason to end democracy. And all in service of a convicted felon and lifelong conman who wasn't even very good at it.
Thank you for the opportunity to think and write about @sorayachemaly.bsky.social’s new book and the impact it will have.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society@signsjournal.org · 6mo ago@renee.bsky.social: "All We Want Is Everything reads as a thought-provoking conversation with that astute friend who leaves you equipped to take on the world. [It's] anchored in stories—little vignettes of memories in Chemaly’s life or moments from the news cycle ripe for dissection and analysis."
New Short Takes! @renee.bsky.social, @carmenriosss.bsky.social, & @profkori.bsky.social discuss @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy! And Chemaly responds to the commentaries, expanding on the themes in her book. Check it out free!
Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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@renee.bsky.social: "All We Want Is Everything reads as a thought-provoking conversation with that astute friend who leaves you equipped to take on the world. [It's] anchored in stories—little vignettes of memories in Chemaly’s life or moments from the news cycle ripe for dissection and analysis."
Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything
Renee Bracey Sherman, Koritha Mitchell, and Carmen Rios respond to Soraya Chemaly’s new book All We Want Is Everything, with a response from Chemaly!
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Misoprostol is used in many aspects of OBGYN care (abortion, miscarriage management, cervical prep) and to treat ulcers. Methotrexate is used to treat ectopic pregnancies and in the management of autoimmune disorders like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis.
Autonomy News@autonomynews.co · 6mo agoThere was so much news last week, including the little-noticed nixing of a rule that required pharmacies to carry and dispense misoprostol and methotrexate. More in our roundup:
A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.
Chabeli Carrazana@chabeli.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn Minneapolis, for every story detailing the fallout of the federal crackdown, there are as many stories of people like Bri, a mom donating breastmilk for babies whose mothers are detained by ICE. Bri's story: 19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...
This week the House is expected to vote on a resolution that would repeal a D.C. bill that decoupled the city's tax code from some of the tax changes Republicans made last year. City officials say that if it passes Congress, it would cost D.C. $600 million over four years.
SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology" The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...
HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants
Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”
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