Gender-Affirming Care: A Battleground for Health Equity and Bodily Autonomy

In the past few years, LGBTQ+ people (particularly trans people) have become targets for hateful, dehumanizing rhetoric. Along with this increasing hostility has come a barrage of legislative attempts to strip LGBTQ+ people of our rights and protections against discrimination. Since 2024, over 500 bills have been introduced at the state level that target LGBTQ+ populations and many are specifically aimed at reducing access to or criminalizing gender-affirming care, particularly for youth...

Community Safety, LGBTQ+, HealthcareGuest UserSeptember 20, 2024Blog

Reflecting on 30 Years of the National Academy of Science’s Food Forum: Extending the Goal towards Equity

Let’s expand the algorithm of scientific progress in food security, food systems, and nutrition and health to include the health outcomes of all our communities and let’s use this data to guide new research and resource investments.

Food SystemsXavier MoralesJanuary 3, 2024Blog

Advancing Prosperity & Racial Equity in Rural Communities

The Praxis Project has partnered with ChangeLab Solutions on two policy briefs designed to aid policymakers, changemakers, local leaders, and organizers explore strategies to advance economic prosperity and racial equity in our rural communities.

Civic ParticipationGuest UserAugust 1, 2023Blog

Our Statement on the Ruling to End Affirmative Action

In response to the SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action, we pledge to continue our work to break down barriers, focusing our efforts on building local power through initiatives that advance our democracy.

Education SystemGuest UserJune 29, 2023Blog

Critical Futures, "Health as a Human Right: Power Building for Community-Driven Change"

Xavier Morels appeared on the Cricial Futures podcast to talk about the importance of community power-building, the role of partner organizations, and the work that must be done across the country to create more equitable health outcomes for all communities.

HealthcareGuest UserMay 2, 2023Blog

California appellate court rules ban on local sugary drink taxes unconstitutional

Civic Participation, Food SystemsPraxis MediaApril 18, 2023Blog

Communities of Praxis Policies by Social Determinants of Health 2022

Parenthood Behind Bars: The Reality of Childbirth in Prisons

Valued Cultures & Identities, Reproductive Life, Criminal Legal SystemGuest UserSeptember 20, 2022Blog

The Fight for Rights: Shifts in Reproductive Justice Organizing after Dobbs

Reproductive Life, Healthcare, Valued Cultures & IdentitiesGuest UserSeptember 20, 2022Blog

Roe v. Wade

As anticipated, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Access to safe health care is a human right. This is dangerous and unconstitutional and will have devastating consequences on BIPOC, low-income people, rural communities, and other marginalized communities whose residents often do not have the resources or ability to travel to obtain the safe, reproductive health care they need. Read more…

Building Community Power to Achieve Health and Racial Equity: Principles to Guide Transformative Partnerships with Local Communities

This new article from The National Academic of Medicine Commentary co-authored by Praxis ED, Xavier Morales, shares how building community power is essential to achieving health and racial equity.

Guest UserJune 14, 2022Blog

Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice

Food Systems, Hope and Efficacy, Physical Environment - Water Air & Soil, Valued Cultures & Identity, Environmental JusticeGuest UserMarch 14, 2022Blog

Reproductive Justice: A holistic Approach to Reproductive Freedom

Reproductive Life, Connections with Neighbors, Community InfrastructureGuest UserAugust 19, 2021Blog

Collective Grief and Community Care in a State-Fueled Crisis

Community Safety, Connections with Neighbors, Valued Cultures & IdentitiesPraxis MediaAugust 19, 2021Blog

Honoring Ma'Khia Byrant

Ma'Khia Byrant was laid to rest on April 30th 2021. In honor of her life, The Praxis Project staff created this digital altar to honor her memory. Ma’Khia deserved a long, beautiful, vibrant life. We mourn and stand to #DefendBlackGirls and their brilliance. ✨⁠#SayHerName #MakhiaByrant ⁠

Community Safety, Criminal Legal SystemGuest UserMay 6, 2021Statement

Daunte Wright

We are mourning this week over another Black person's life tragically cut short. Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Daunte Wright and the grieving communities in the greater Minneapolis area as they mourn this new loss amid tending to open wounds from George Floyd's murder less than one year ago…

Community Safety, Criminal Legal SystemGuest UserApril 16, 2021Statement

Standing in Grief and Unity with the AAPI Community

Community Safety, Criminal Legal SystemGuest UserMarch 17, 2021Statement

On Anti-Asian Violence & Lunar New Year

As we celebrate another Lunar New Year, The Praxis Project is heartbroken over the recent violent attacks on our Asian American community in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the country.
Artwork Credit: Katie Quan

Community Safety, Criminal Legal SystemGuest UserFebruary 12, 2021Statement

A Federal Agenda for Health, Justice, & Racial Equity from The Praxis Project Network

Our organizing partners have continued to effectively advance community priorities throughout COVID-19 and its inequitable impacts on people of color; it's necessary for public health and our federal administration to follow the priorities of these leaders to truly effect change…

Statement on January 6, 2021

Praxis condemns the blatant attack on democracy and the blatantly permitted and encouraged display of attempted disenfranchisement legitimized by systemic white supremacy at our nation's Capitol yesterday…

Civic ParticipationGuest UserJanuary 7, 2021Statement

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