Regina Mahone
Rewire News Group
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Regina:
Notes on Language: Why We Stopped Using 'Surgical Abortion' at Rewire.News
And what you need to know about abortion and “elective” health care. → Read More
'No Choice': Pop-Up Travel Agency Brings Attention to Antiquated New York Abortion Law
Reproductive rights advocates continue the pushback against a state law banning abortion care after 24 weeks into a pregnancy. → Read More
Reimagining Black Mamahood in an Unjust Society
Campaigns like the Mamas Day project amplify imagery that allows Black people, including Black immigrant mothers, to see themselves as their communities see them. → Read More
Reproductive Justice Activist Detained 'in Retaliation' for Protesting
So-called silent raids, which involve ICE detaining people during their regularly scheduled immigration check-ins, have become increasingly common in the last year. → Read More
‘Black to the Future’: A Q&A With Alicia Garza on Building Black Political Power
The Black Lives Matter co-founder launched the Black Futures Lab earlier this week "to transform Black communities and the constituencies that are building power in cities and states." → Read More
'Welcome to Wakanda': Black Women in the Age of 'Power Rising'
An Atlanta summit set a progressive policy agenda for Black women and strengthened sisterhood bonds. → Read More
What Else Happened? A Look Inside the Abortion Underground
Kat and Regina discuss the comeback of a disease, raids on strip clubs in New Orleans, and a lawsuit against policy preventing transgender residents from having a driver’s license that reflects their gender identity. Also, Regina talks with Nina Liss-Schultz about her recent piece at Mother Jones on an underground network of activists helping people to terminate their pregnancies. → Read More
What Else Happened? Job Market Discrimination and Tiny House Activism
Regina and Kat discuss the news about indigenous activists building tiny houses to stop another pipeline, the discrimination women can face on the job market, and the obstacles Black Boston residents must overcome when accessing health care. Plus, Kat talks to Kathy Bougher about an injustice in El Salvador. → Read More
'Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life': A Q&A With 'Radical Reproductive Justice' Contributor Andrea Smith
"The pro-life versus pro-choice paradigm has so polarized everything, it’s entrenched us in specific positions that don’t allow us to critique and change as we go along," Smith told Rewire in a recent interview. → Read More
The Future Is 'Radical Reproductive Justice'
"RJ is a model not just for women of color, nor just for achieving reproductive freedom. RJ is a model for organizing for human equality and well-being," writes author Dorothy Roberts in her foreword to the new anthology. → Read More
What Else Happened? Prison Injustice, a Rural Water Crisis, and Philando Castile's Legacy
Rewire managing editors Regina Mahone and Kat Jercich explore this week’s important underreported stories. → Read More
What Else Happened? Congress Failed, Parents With Disabilities Sued, and a 'Concentration Camp' Closed
Rewire managing editors Regina Mahone and Kat Jercich explore this week’s important underreported stories. Plus, Regina interviews Vilissa Thompson about parents with intellectual disabilities fighting discrimination in New York City, and Kat's parents are in town. → Read More
What Else Happened? A North Carolina Mother Learns Whether She Can Leave Sanctuary
Rewire managing editor Regina Mahone talks with immigration reporter Tina Vazquez about a breaking development for Minerva Garcia, a North Carolina woman who had been forced to take sanctuary in a local church to fight her ICE deportation order. Where is Minerva now, and what lies ahead for her and her family? → Read More
What Else Happened? Buried Stats, Forgotten Kids, and Court Shenanigans
Rewire managing editors Regina Mahone and Kat Jercich explore this week’s important underreported stories: the Department of Veterans Affairs glossing over alarming new data, the opioid crisis leading to kids left behind, Chicago giving its last Black-owned bank an investment bump, and the Eighth Circuit putting a stop to new abortion services in Missouri. → Read More
What Else Happened? Tons of Wildfires, Child Care Blueprints, and Tom DeLay—Again
Rewire managing editors Regina Mahone and Kat Jercich explore this week's most important underreported stories: the major natural disaster that's not a hurricane, alarming trends in racial wealth divides, a new entitlement proposal in Congress, and Tom Delay's newest efforts to thwart the Constitution. → Read More
'Loving' and the Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement
Sheryll Cashin's new book, Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy, is perfectly timed and should be consumed in its entirety by those seeking a deeper examination of how white supremacy worked historically. → Read More
From ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ to ‘Flawless’: Ms. Foundation CEO Teresa Younger on the #MyFeminismIs Campaign
I recently chatted with the Ms. Foundation's Teresa Younger about its new "MyFeminismIs" campaign, the importance of lifting up all-inclusive feminism, and the role of foundations in bolstering movement building. → Read More
The Quality of Black Lives Matters Too
#BlackSpring is here: the uprisings happening in cities nationwide as part of a collective fight for racial justice in all areas of Black lives. → Read More
The Quality of Black Lives Matters Too
#BlackSpring is here: the uprisings happening in cities nationwide as part of a collective fight for racial justice in all areas of Black lives. → Read More
When It Comes to Police Brutality, Seeing Isn't Always Believing
A September 2014 police shooting in South Carolina illustrates the importance of video when it comes to issues of race and policing. It also reminds us, however, that video alone is not enough to overcome or combat the violence resulting from implicit bias. → Read More