✹ A Creative Resource Guide For Texan Feminists In Anxious Times

In this 5-minute guide, we cover a few strategies to understand and support reproductive rights & abortion access in Texas.

what can YOU do to support repro rights in texas?

✰ No. 1 — Catch up on the policies that shape Texas’ policies on abortion and reproductive health today.

As of June 24, 2022, The Supreme Court has overturned the impact of Roe v. Wade. In Texas, this has led to an immediate abortion ban, spurring additional confrontations on reproductive rights and autonomy at large, in Texas.

✰ No. 2 — Take a minute to ground yourself.

Make space to learn about your body and its relationship to reproductive health, if you haven’t already done so. Refresh on the systems, biases and discriminatory practices that can affect your health, too.

Penned by cultural activist and digital organizer Emma Robinson, our 2020 SOTU guide takes a look at bodily autonomy, privilege and understanding our own reproductive health.


✰ No. 3 — Turn any reasonable anxiety spirals into daily actions.

Here are a few things you can do right now to lend your support to reproductive rights movements in Texas:

  • Show up for your local reproductive justice orgs and abortion funds (find a list toward the end of this guide). Amplify their work in your advocacy. Follow their lead.

  • Contact your local representatives, write op-eds, send letters and protest the policies that affect you and the health of our collective communities.

  • Sign up to volunteer with your local protesting groups, reproductive rights orgs and/or abortion funds.

  • Make a donation to an org you care about (find a list toward the end of this guide).

  • Learn more about your options and your reproductive rights when it comes to your reproductive health, your sexual health, gender-affirming care and abortion care (additional resources toward the end of this guide).

✰ No. 4 — Tell your friends and family members about what you know and how they can help.

There’s a lot of misinformation out there about reproductive and sexual health. Understanding our bodies and how they work, as well as our reproductive health options (like contraceptives, abortion, gender-affirming care) transforms these topics from taboos within our culture to conditions of everyday, human life. This helps our communities join forces and better navigate the systems that attempt to legislate us all, too.

✰ No. 5 — Spread the word in your work, life and community.

Make conversation. Make space. Make art. Make room. We still have our voice. And you still have yours.

Use what you know to make a difference. For example, we recently collaborated with Plan C and Austin-based filmmaker Lindsey L33 to create an art-film guide around abortion pill access and what that looks like today. (Click here to learn more and contribute your own art to the campaign.)

How can honest, responsible conversations around reproductive health and reproductive rights access show up in your life?

Your answer to that question is your best place to start.

 

NEED MORE RESOURCES?

Below, you’ll find additional recommendations and notes.

This is updated quarterly by creatives that volunteer with Future Front. To contribute additions, please email hello@futurefronttexas.org.

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BEHIND THE TEXAN FEMINIST INITIATIVE

At Future Front, our work is guided by a commitment to improving representation and resilience in our creative communities. This has a distinct relationship to our understanding of social justice in Texas—which includes reproductive justice.

We envision a Texas that acknowledges and fights against the intersectional issues that affect our communities’ health, like access to reproductive cares, systemic racism, transphobia, abuse and violence, sexual miseducation and more. We envision a Texas without sexual stigma—a Texas that does not work to prevent all genders and sexes from receiving appropriate health services.

We envision a Texas where spaces that prioritize individual agency and the communication of truthful, responsible information thrive. We envision a Texas where abortion is decriminalized. We envision a Texas where we can speak for ourselves.

So, annually, we collaborate with women and LGBTQ+ creatives, small business owners, leaders and like-minded orgs to share resources and explore reproductive health equity in Texas—through everything from creative guides to cool parties, fundraising $25,000+ for community initiatives.

And you are always invited to join us. Share what you can, send us hot tips and tell your friends!