June 7, 2021 | An interview with Jocelyn Foye, the director of The Womxn Project ||| In a time of increasing partisan divide around so many issues, advocacy on behalf of issues central to reproductive freedom and justice has become even more challenging.
The Violence Against Women Act is stalled in the U.S. Senate, unable to move past Republican resistance to a vote. A bill to codify the military’s response to sexual violence has been stalled by a turf war between Sen. Jack Reed and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to hear challenges to Mississippi’s ant-abortion statute, with the possibility that the new majority of Trump-appointed judges will overturn Roe v. Wade.
Still, women are persisting. In Texas, high school valedictorian Paxton Smith denounced the new Texas abortion law that bans abortion as early as six weeks, in a surprise graduation speech, which went viral.
Here in Rhode Island, one of the more effective grassroots political strategy groups focused on reproductive freedom and justice is a statewide organization known as The Womxn Project. ConvergenceRI recently spoke with Jocelyn Foye, director and board president.
Here is the ConvergenceRI interview with Foye:
