Ramey Connelly

Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project

Ramey Connelly is a community organizer and advocate in Philadelphia, PA. Through her work as a full-spectrum doula, she fights to help people navigate their pregnancies healthily, regardless of the outcome. She is currently a board member of the Youth Fundraising Advocacy Board for the organization Advocates for Youth. She loves playing the ukulele, and she likes dinosaurs a lot.

Project TMI: The Feminist Humor Defense Against the Assault on Our Bodies

It's a strange sensation to start something as a joke, expecting that only your friends on Facebook will see it, and then all of a sudden to see it all over the internet. That's what happened with my decision to report on my menstrual cycle to all of the Virginia legislators (not just the Republicans, contrary to popular news sources) who voted "yes" on HB462, the "mandatory ultrasound" bill.