Advocacy

Sexual Health (General)

Advocates for Youth (https://www.advocatesforyouth.org): “Advocates for Youth works alongside thousands of young people here in the U.S. and around the globe as they fight for sexual health, rights, and justice.” Includes numerous youth leadership and activism programs.  Also features a Youth Activist Toolkit, with information ranging from how to get started as a successful youth advocate to how to effectively use your power:

http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Youth-Activist-Toolkit.pdf 

Comprehensive Sex Education

EducateUS: SIECUS In Action (https://www.educateusaction.org): “EducateUS: SIECUS In Action is building a movement of voters laser-focused on advancing progressive sex education policy and implementation across the country. We believe that comprehensive public sex education can change the world.”

LGBTQIA+

Campus Pride (https://www.campuspride.org): “The organization is a volunteer-driven network ‘for’ and ‘by’ student leaders. The primary objective of Campus Pride is to develop necessary resources, programs and services to support LGBT and ally students on college campuses across the United States.”

The New Pride Agenda (https://www.newprideagenda.org) advocates for the needs of marginalized queer people in New York. They have activist events, inform queer people about how the law affects them, and lobby to pass laws supporting the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ folks.

InterACT (https://interactadvocates.org) is an organization focused on ending harmful medical interventions for intersex children. 

The Intersex Justice Project (https://www.intersexjusticeproject.org) is an organization that uses direct action and other strategies to end surgeries to change the bodies of unconsenting young people as well as forming alliances and coalitions with other intersex people of color and NGO partners nationally and globally.

Reproductive Justice

Pro-Truth NY (https://www.protruthny.org) is a coalition of reproductive rights advocates, policymakers, and service providers, united to fight fake abortion clinics (also known as “crisis pregnancy centers”). They educate vulnerable communities, across the country, about the dangerous and deceptive tactics of fake clinics, empowering them with information to protect themselves and their peers.

URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equality (https://urge.org) is an organization that builds power and sustains a young people’s movement for reproductive justice by centering the leadership of young people of color who are women, queer, trans, nonbinary, and people of low income.

My Sister’s Keeper (https://bwhi.org/my-sisters-keeper) is a program created by the Black Women’s Health Imperative to empower young Black women (ages 18-30) to be powerful advocates and leaders on behalf of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. 

The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice (https://www.latinainstitute.org) centers and amplifies Latina/x voices to transform the systems and narratives to reclaim our bodies and our lives.

Sister Song (https://www.sistersong.net) is an organization that works to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities.

Rochester Sexual and Reproductive Justice Task Force (https://rocsrj.org): “Through advocacy, education, and community, Roc.SRJ bridges the gap between sexual and reproductive justice resources and the people of Rochester.”

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