Bodies Count

Happy Election Day! Did you vote yet?? GO VOTE!

We've finally reached the finish line on the Got Body? campaign for bodily autonomy, reminding you of the importance of voting in every single election. Thanks for tuning in to this exciting collaboration between Bodies Count and the My Body My Future Fund!

In this last episode of the Got Body? mini series, Samirah is interviewing Georgia State Representative, SisterSong Board Member, and fashion icon Park Cannon. We hope you enjoyed this very special mini series of Bodies Count leading up to Election Day!

It's almost the big day! I can feel the spirit of democracy and civic engagement in the air.

With Election Day right around the corner, our Bodies Count mini series in collaboration with the My Body My Future Fund on their Got Body? Campaign is almost complete! In this second to last episode of the series, we're interviewing top political strategist Tamia Booker.

Click this link to check out the voter guide made just for YOU and sign the pledge to let us know that you’ll be showing out this election!

We deserve to see ourselves represented in politics! This week’s mini episode of Bodies Count leading up to Election Day features Tennessee State Senator London Lamar, the youngest female and African American legislator in the Tennessee State Senate history.

This episode is part 4 of the 6 part series collaborating with the My Body My Future Fund on their Got Body? Campaign. Click the link 🔗 o check out the voter guide made just for YOU and sign the pledge to let us know that you’ll be showing out this election!

We have to VOTE our way out of fascism 🗳️🗳️ This week’s mini episode of Bodies Count leading up to Election Day features SisterSong’s very own Executive Director Monica Simpson, reminding us that we have a responsibility to our communities and to future generations to SHOW UP, even when it’s hard. The door’s of the Reproductive Justice movement are open for you, come on through 🚪

This episode is part 4 of the 6 part series collaborating with the My Body My Future Fund on their Got Body? Campaign. Click the link 🔗 to check out the voter guide made just for YOU and sign the pledge to let us know that you’ll be showing out this election!

We are just 20 days away from Election Day! Do you have your voting plan ready? Your body is on the ballot; vote to secure your rights.

Tune into Episode 2 of the 6-part Bodies Count mini-series for the Got Body? Campaign, featuring A’shanti Gholar, Executive Director of Emerge, the largest network of women elected officials and candidates in the country!

Sign the pledge to let us know that you'll be voting in the midterms.

This project is a partnership between SisterSong and the My Body My Future Fund. A special thanks to Higher Heights for hosting the 13th annual #BlackWomenLead Reception at CBC week and to Tribe Productions for making it all come to life.

Welcome to Episode 1 of the Bodies Count six part mini series in partnership with the Got Body? campaign for bodily autonomy! We're just 27 days away from Election Day, and each week we're going to be putting out a special mini episode featuring influencer and activist Samirah Raheem interviewing some of the most influential change makers in politics.

Now's the time to make your voting plan! Sign the pledge to let us know that you'll be voting in the midterms.

Enjoy part one of the series, featuring New Jersey Congresswoman and new mom LaMonica McIver!

This project is a partnership between SisterSong and the My Body My Future Fund. A special thanks to Higher Heights for hosting the 13th annual #BlackWomenLead Reception at CBC week and to Tribe Productions for making it all come to life.

AUDIO ONLY: Watch the full video on our YouTube

Bodies Count, and so does your VOTE! With election day fast approaching, we thought it was time we hit the gas on getting out the vote for the midterms. For the next six weeks, SisterSong and the Bodies Count podcast are teaming up with the My Body My Future Fund for the Got Body? campaign to fight for bodily autonomy and get our people to the polls.

In this full length episode of Bodies Count, Simran is joined by Samirah Raheem, face of the Got Body? campaign, and Ericka Claudio, founder of the My Body My Future Fund to chat about the importance of voting in local and state elections. Did you know that an average of only 15-27% of registered voters are showing up to vote in local elections? That means that your rights are being decided by a tiny portion of the population, and they could be weirdos, who knows. So take back your voice, and take back your vote!

Get your girls together and strut to the polls. Take a cute date to the polls. Do what you gotta do to have your voice heard this election, it takes all of us to win.

This episode of Bodies Count is the kickoff to a six part mini series featuring interviews with some of the biggest movers and shakers in politics today. Every week leading up to Election Day, we’ll be dropping one very special episode featuring state legislators, Congress members, activists, and more from the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference in DC. We’re so excited to be sharing this series with you, enjoy the episode and GET OUT THE VOTE!

Click this link to check out your very own Got Body? Voter Guide and sign the pledge to let us know that you’ll be voting this election <3

Thank you to Tribe Productions for this amazing video episode!

The best part about Reproductive Justice? That there are no rules! In this episode of Bodies Count, Simran chats with Bianca from Forward Together on their experience with being a non-birthing parent who chose to co-lactate and be part of chest feeding their baby.

This episode is a continuation of Bianca's article on co-lactation in Forward Together's New Visions anthology. New Visions is a living anthology, a love letter to those who have felt unheard or unrepresented within reproductive justice spaces. Check out Bianca's piece and more here!

Lactation for the Rest of Us: A Guide for Queer and Trans Parents and Helpers

LIVE from SisterSong's Let's Talk About Sex Conference 2026 in Chicago! In this episode, Simran does a live interview with artist Autumn Breon on the power of magic as a tool for freedom, both ancestrally and today.

Watch the full video on Youtube here :)

Check out Autumn's upcoming play and first piece of theatrical work entitled MAROONS, premiering this October! MAROONS is a genre-bending theatrical performance that reimagines the history of marronage (resisting or liberating oneself from slavery) as a living, time-bending practice of escape and collective freedom.

This week, Simran is joined by SisterSong's very own Birth Justice Education Coordinator Shanti Moore to talk about maternal wellness and the history of midwifery in America. Get your next Pap smear from a midwife!

As promised, here are a few articles about the politics of home birth and midwifery across the states:

The Politics of Home Births in the US (very unfortunately behind a paywall, National Library of Medicine)

As Home Births Rise in Popularity, Some Midwives Operate in a Legal Grey Area (NPR)

State Ranking of Midwifery Integration Scores (Birth Place Lab)

Check out the documentary Shanti and Simran were discussing, The Business of Being Born.

Want to get involved with Artists United for Reproductive Justice (AURJ)? Email Seyi at [email protected].