Author: Chanel Dubofsky

When you make $2.13 an hour without tips, sometimes you have to choose between tolerating harassing behavior or not making rent. This must change. 

“People who want to be health care workers are told not to do it. It’s really hard work, but the work is so often unvalued.”

Chanel Dubofsky’s remarks from the Spring issue launch party. 

The Paid Care Brochure is the result of the eight year partnership (from 2002-2010) between Domestic Workers United and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.

One thing is clear about the dismantling of the A.C.A. and the defunding of Planned Parenthood: people who need preventative care the most, including Jewish women, won’t be able to afford it, and the results of that fact will be devastating.

Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health’s Turnaway Study proves what reproductive justice advocates have been saying all along.

At the clinic,  there is the usual bank of protesters at the curb, holding pictures of white skinned Jesus and white skinned babies, along with large crosses. 

It’s this “good woman” brain that comes back when I do things like stop eating dairy. It’s the same thing that used to happen when I kept kosher.

Really, I am just trying to put her back together. The woman I knew as my mother was dismantled, by illness and by fear and trouble, but there’s the person I didn’t know, ever, and I am trying to find her.