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

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

Communities of Praxis Policies by Social Determinants of Health 2022

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…

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…

Changing the Face

Public health is still in need of a publicist. We are already aware that, pre-COVID 19, the general public perception around agencies like the CDC, Department of Health & Human Services, and state/local health departments was negative. Thus, I am calling for public health to be redefined and expanded; we must “change the face.”

Public Health Needs a New Publicist

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing the general public put U.S. public health institutions under the microscope with intense scrutiny—and, in my perspective, rightfully so.

HealthcareJulian JohnsonJuly 22, 2020Blog