Created by Eva Killingstad and Talya Kohan-Gaffar
Inspiring Leaders and Advocators For Women's Reproductive Health
+ how you can become one!
Creating a community of uplifting people.
Supporting advocators and working to become one yourself is essential if we want to see real progress. ALL of our voices are needed, essential, and valued.
Advocators to Support and Learn About!
Lolo Cynthia
Lolo Cynthia, a public health specialist and reproductive health advocator, taught nearly 250 girls in southwest Nigeria how to sew their own reusable menstrual pads from linens and cloth.
Cynthia also uses social media to share sex education content on her youtube channel, LoloTalks, and shares informational tweets that facilitate discussions about stigmatized topics ranging from sexuality to menstrual hygiene.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
R.B.G was and still is notoriously known for her dedication to equality and equal rights. Ginsburg became director of the Women’s Rights Project, eventually helping the process of passing The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, prohibiting sex discrimination in places of employment, specifically for those capable of reproduction.
Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla
Having earned a degree in Obstetrics and Genecology from the University of Cairo in 1962, Fathalla is honored for his tremendous research on the origin and the advantages of diversity in reproductive health.
His seven propositions include:
• Let all her body be hers
• Women are ends and not means
• Women have a right to safe motherhood
• Equity please
• Women have a right to benefit from scientific progress
• Beware! The Homo dogmaticus
• A universal prescription for women’s health
-Mahmoud Fathalla
The Global Fund For Women
The Global Fund For Women is a lovely non profit group.
The group believes that a woman’s ability to get comprehensive sexuality education, control her own body, and access the health services she needs, is a right, no matter where she lives, her income, or ethnicity.
Reproductive Health access project
This non profit organization focuses on three key areas being: abortion, contraception, and miscarriage.
Reproductive Health Access Project works to mobilize, train and support clinicians to make reproductive health care accessible to everyone.
The condom collective
The Condom Collective members care about access to quality condoms on school campuses. Every year, they give out 1 million+ Trojan™ Condoms on college campuses across the United States to advocate for safe and healthy sex.