Miriam Pérez
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Miriam Zoila Pérez is a 25-year-old North Carolina native
whose upbringing in a Cuban immigrant household was pretty far from Southern. A
graduate of Swarthmore
College, Miriam has been
working in the reproductive justice movement for over five years, both online
and off.
Miriam has worked as an advocate
for Latina
women in various capacities. She has been a case manager assisting pregnant
immigrants, as well as a reproductive justice organizer with the National Latina Institute for
Reproductive Health. Miriam is also a trained doula and has worked in the United States and in Ecuador
providing labor support to Latina
women.
Miriam is the sole blogger and
founder of Radicaldoula.com. She is
also an editor at Feministing.com. Her writing has
appeared in Bitch Magazine, The Nation, RH Reality Check and Alternet. Most
recently Miriam's work has been published in Yes Means Yes: Visions of
Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape and Sinister Wisdom: Latina Lesbians.
Miriam is on the Board of
Directors of the Astraea
Lesbian Foundation for Justice. In 2009 she was named one of
Women's Information Network's (WIN)
Young Women of Achievement.
What's the Real Problem Regarding the Scapegoating of Immigrant Women?
by Miriam Pérez, radicaldoula.com, feministing.com
August 1, 2011 - 11:21am (Print)
As part of this year’s Latina Week of Action for Reproductive Justice NLIRH is hosting a blog carnival centered around the topic of immigrant women. The question we’ve posed: “What’s the real problem” when it comes to the scapegoating of immigrant women?
Worried About Women of Color? Thanks, But No Thanks, Anti-Choicers. We've Got It Covered.
by Miriam Pérez, radicaldoula.com, feministing.com
February 24, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)
The anti-choice movement uses false concern about women of color in a classic effort to divide-and-conquer. Reproductive justice advocates say thanks but no thanks...we've got it covered.
