By Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira The Conversation In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the home front building Victory Ships not only added to the…
LatinaLista — Last week’s 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade brought out the usual competing protesters — those who frame the issue solely as a moral fight and those who frame it as fight for women’s freedom. Yet, the…
By Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (Editor’s note: The following column was originally published on RH Reality Check.) I recently celebrated my first anniversary as the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health…
LatinaLista — The world is twelve years into the 21st Century and yet there still exists an attitude towards women that attempts to delegate them as second-class citizens incapable of making their own decisions. The United States used to…
