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

Communities of Praxis Policies by Social Determinants of Health 2022

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…

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…

We Demand Justice for Breonna Taylor

Artwork Credit: Noa Denmon

Community Safety, Criminal Legal SystemGuest UserSeptember 23, 2020Statement

Transforming Community Safety: Looking Beyond Reforms

I began my 2020 summer internship at The Praxis Project in the wake of mass mobilizations across the country and around the world demanding structural change and justice for the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Tony McDade, and so many more…

Community Safety, Criminal Legal System, Socioeconomic ConditionsKourtney NhamSeptember 3, 2020Blog