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“Keep organizing, telling your story, and voting. Our collective voice is the most powerful strength we have.” GGE Deputy Director of Policy & @NJAAF President @QuadiraC is doing the work!! 👏🏾 Check her out alongside other amazing #ReproductiveJustice organizers in @Cosmopolitan

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Finally decided to stop neglecting my Twitter page ☺️ hey y’all 👋🏾

GGE Deputy Director of Policy @QuadiraC spoke truth to power this morning, before @GovKathyHochul signed a reproductive rights package protecting the rights and privacy of care providers and patients. Watch here: youtu.be/wx6EXENuvL8

There’s a lot of work to do. It’s imperative that @NYGovernor, @NYSAssembly, & @NYSenate support #SolutionsNotSuspensions & Comprehensive #SexEdNowNY to end cultures of sexual harassment and punishment in schools across the state. 📋 Read more here: bit.ly/GGE-SSE

📋 FINDING 3⃣ – Districts and schools rapidly escalate disciplinary responses to force dress code compliance, threatening students with detention, suspension, removal to Alternate Learning Centers, and even referrals to court.

📋 FINDING 2⃣ – These codes empower school staff to make decisions about what they think is “inappropriate.” Adults then use the justification that certain clothing + appearance is “disruptive” to learning... in order to then disrupt the learning of the students they target.

📋 FINDING 1⃣ – Overwhelmingly, these dress codes prohibited clothing that school staff say is "too revealing” or “immodest,” with specific bans on spaghetti straps and tube tops, and a wide range of meticulous rules for “acceptable” lengths of dresses, skirts, and shorts.

Nothing “distracting,” “indecent,” or “risquè.” No “headwraps,” “large purses,” or “make-up.” We audited student dress codes across the state of New York and those are but a few of the absurd rules we found. 📋 Today we’re releasing our new report: bit.ly/GGE-SSE

“Forcing Black people to carry pregnancies to term completely ignores the real health crisis that Black people face everyday”…”this country’s long history of reproductive coercion & control is why we fight” - @QuadiraC #BansOffOurBodies

“Black women are defending their right to have a child as they battle the infant and maternal mortality crisis in this country, while also battling the right to not have a child” - @QuadiraC #BansOffOurBodies

“GGE believes that Black girls, women, trans and gender expansive people across the U.S. should have access to safe, affordable and accessible abortion care should they need it, not just if they live in progressive states” - @QuadiraC #BansOffOurBodies

Our policy manager @QuadiraC will be giving comment on the state of reproductive justice for Black girls, women, and gender expansive youth! Join us virtually in solidarity to protect abortion access! #BansOffOurBodies

We want to again thank our senate sponsor, @JuliaCarmel__ our Assembly lead sponsor @KarinesReyes87, @votejgr, @CPeoplesStokes for their statements today and their support.

Wonderful news! Thank you Assembly Member Reyes for being a champion for all the young people and others who will benefit from this when it becomes law. 🎉

After 9 hours, GGE's Policy Manager @QuadiraC is up! ft. background by @UYC_YouthPower 🔥 "We are here, again, to demand that @NYCCouncil prioritize #PoliceFreeSchools." You can read her full remarks here: campaigns.ggenyc.org/wp-content/upl…

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.@NYCMayor this morning said, "we know how important it is to move our school system forward." @BrianLehrer #AskTheMayor how directing $20 million in public funds towards policing students moves us forward? #NoNewSSAs

.@BrianLehrer #AskTheMayor @BilldeBlasio what he has to say to the over 100 civil rights organizations demanding he cancel plans to hire 475 new school cops? The demand is clear – #NoNewSSAs! Read the full letter here: bit.ly/NoNewSSAs

GGE's Policy Manager, @QuadiraC is testifying now. "We remain consistent in our demands, council must prioritize #PoliceFreeSchools"