As a fierce advocate for women negatively impacted by disparities in our healthcare system, Dr. Grossman’s insight on the effect that the coronavirus will have on women is invaluable. Below is a transcript of our intersectional conversation on women, COVID-19, and the ways that we can protect our reproductive and sexual health during a pandemic.
We call our doctor, who says to isolate her immediately, “Lock her up, do the deepest clean possible and leave food outside her door as needed.”
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Coronavirus has suddenly changed our lives, so quickly and in ways so profound that we are just beginning to grasp.
That summer, and every summer since, I’ve been one of the only women to wear tefillin at prayer services every morning.
From Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Bella Abzug, to Tiffany Haddish, #MeToo and local politics.
I absolutely loved photography, but I went back to teaching when the sabbatical was over; I left the job 11 years later, in 1999, and began doing photography full-time.
“Because of you, I know the perpetual urgency of safeguarding women’s autonomy. I hear the dire importance of maintaining control over my body in my own name.”
As a Black Jewish feminist I am committed to many issues that are life and death–from police violence to abortion–but for the first time, I find myself zeroing in on a singular issue: climate catastrophe.
