"Forecasting has never felt spiritually aligned for me - too much grasping for control, too much pretending the future can be summoned on demand. As a Quaker, I trust the slow revelation that comes from silent collective listening and action. I've spent the last seven months in a front-row seat to the decades-long fight for reproductive justice in the South."
"As Aja Arnold notes in her sharp, deeply reported critique of national media's disregard for the South, this region has been treated as a testing ground for policies that later spread nationwide. BIPOC Southern reproductive justice organizers in particular have been fighting under higher stakes for so long. The ecosystem these organizers have built - an interdependent network of caregivers, independent clinics, abortion funds, practical support collectives, doulas, and legal advocates - is built to adapt instantly and center dignity."
Communities in the South have built sophisticated, agile, humane information-and-care ecosystems to survive political repression, misinformation, and scarcity from state abandonment. BIPOC reproductive justice organizers operate an interdependent network of caregivers, independent clinics, abortion funds, practical support collectives, doulas, and legal advocates that adapts instantly and centers dignity. These organizations prioritize material needs and outcomes—providing transportation, childcare, food, and matching people to appropriate clinics—rather than producing content. They maintain flexibility to respond daily to bans, lawsuits, clinic closures, and surveillance threats. Journalism can learn practices from these community-rooted, outcome-focused systems.
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