Every year at Hampshire College, students, staff, and faculty send in nominations for the Ingenuity Awards. These awards honor students who have made a significant contribution to our community. This year, five students who have worked with CLPP received awards in recognition of their outstanding work and initiative. They are Bailey Hanselman, Chiloe Barrera-Cloyd, Iesha Ramos, Lauren Casey, and Yasmine El Baggari. We are inspired by their passion and commitment to reproductive justice!
On April 28, 2012, activists and advocates from Minnesota, the Midwest, and (a few of us) from across the U.S. met up at Carleton College for their Reproductive Justice Collective's first conference, "Sex, Lies, and Things our Mothers Never Told Us: How Reproductive Justice Fits into Every Aspect of Our Society." We spent the day together, in a building that formerly housed Northfield's middle school, and talked human rights, sexualities and native communities, supreme court cases, and art as activism.
During Friday afternoon at the conference this year, CLPP partnered with the Care Center to produce activist portraits. The Care Center is an alternative education center for pregnant and parenting teens in Holyoke, MA. The ladies from the Care Center took pictures of participants and their collages, which will be displayed at a gallery exhibit on May 18th.