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06/02/13

This blog post is part of Blogging for LGBT Families Day at the Mombian blog. To participate, click here . May 8 marked a difficult anniversary for many of us in North Carolina. It was the date one year ago when our fellow North Carolinians voted to enshrine discrimination in our state constitution...

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Beth Messersmith

06/02/13

I've always had an uneasy relationship with pronouns. When I was a teen-ager, somebody taught me how to use them. She sat me on a chair next to a pillow and told me to talk to the pillow about how I felt. Instead, I pretended I was the pillow and I told Sheila, "She feels this. She feels that." We...

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Lauren Reichelt

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

06/01/13

Being a new mother is not easy and getting breastfeeding off to a good start is a small – no, make that a HUGE miracle! Add the stress of losing your job because you tried to give your baby the best start in life? I can’t even imagine it. Breastfeeding became a protected Civil Right in California...

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Genevieve Colvin

Podcast

06/01/13

"It is so much better to do something than to do nothing!" On this show we uncover what's going on with kids and access to food; hear the latest about the 49 public school closures in Chicago; learn about what started a key leader on the path to leadership when she was five years old; and find out...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Immigration

05/31/13

This blog carnival was updated four times on May 30, 2013. Asian-Americans are the fastest growing minority in the United States, growing by 46% between the 2000 and 2010 censuses . Also, May marks Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. In celebration of the many contributions of women, mothers and...

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Mee Moua

05/31/13

This blog post originally appeared in the blog, poetry & tsismis: emily's blog . In honor of all women, here is my mother’s favorite poem entitled “My Pinay Nanay”, that I wrote in 1998 for her and all Filipina American mothers. It was published (with three of my other pieces) in the anthology...

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Emily Lawsin

Environmental Health Health Care

05/30/13

Five years ago, when my husband was interviewing for his first job as a high school teacher, I remember my parting words to him were, "Go get us some health care!" Although we knew his teaching salary wouldn't be high, we did expect that the health coverage benefits would ease our financial worries...

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Ashley Boyd

Immigration Gun Safety

05/30/13

CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (aka Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) is a pan-Asian organization based in New York City that has been doing social and racial justice work since 1986. We are rooted in low-income Asian immigrant and refugee communities and work to build the leadership of...

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Helena Wong

05/30/13

Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month is a time to learn about and celebrate the significant contributions AAPIs have made to America. For me, it’s also a chance to highlight for our political leaders the many struggles AAPIs still face. Growing up the child of immigrant parents...

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Priscilla Huang

Immigration

05/30/13

Photo on right: Deepa with her mother in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1975 As an immigrant, a South Asian American, and a mother, the current debate over immigration policy is deeply personal to me. At the time my parents moved from India to spend a year in Nashville, Tennessee, I was two and a half...

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