Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Hero Origin Stories: Round 7

It’s that time of year again! Ready for a reprisal of our most popular series, SRHR Hero Origin Stories? On this episode, hear from Christina Krysinski, Associate Director for Global Advocacy at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Asha Dahya, filmmaker, reproductive rights and freedom advocate, and mother of two, and Rachel Marchand, Senior Policy Analyst and Podcast Producer at rePROs Fight Back.

If you haven’t already, check out our previous episodes, SRHR Hero Origin Stories: Round 6, SRHR Origin Stories: Round 5, SRHR Hero Origin Stories: Round 4, and more, where we talk to a number of amazing heroes in the field of reproductive health, rights, and justice about how they began working in this space.

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
Asha Dahya on Instagram
Someone You Know
Green Tide Rising
rePROs Fight Back on Instagram

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Jennie: Welcome to rePROs Fight Back, a podcast on all things related to sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. [music intro]

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Hi, rePROs. How's everybody doing? I'm your host, Jennie Wetter, and my pronouns are she/her. So, I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I'm recording before Thanksgiving, so I am very much looking forward to having a long, long, long weekend. I am off Wednesday to Monday, so I am just really looking forward to having a really chill, quiet time. I'm not traveling, which is also very exciting. As much as I love being home for Thanksgiving and enjoying my mom's cooking, it's just, it's never as relaxing as I want it to be. Like, it’s always so stressful flying for such a short holiday. So I go home for longer over Christmas. So, I am very much looking forward to that. And then my mom also spoils me and makes Thanksgiving while I'm home. So, I will get to enjoy all of her amazing Thanksgiving cooking when I am home at Christmas time. The only other thing I really miss, and I'm sure I've talked about this on the podcast before, but the Saturday after Thanksgiving, my mom's family all gets together. Basically, most of the aunts and a number of the cousins. I think I've mentioned this before. My mom is one of 11, so there are a lot of us. We all get together and make Christmas cookies. And so, it's just like a full-on day of baking. Multiple people bring their like stand mixers and there's cookies flying all day. And then, we do like exchanges at the end of the day, and everybody gets a little bit of everything, and it is so much fun, and there's so many cookies to be had. It's just a really fun time spending time with my mom's side of the family. And so, that is the one thing I really do miss going home for that. But my mom always sends me a little care package of uh some of the cookies from the cookie bake. So, I do miss that. But I am also just very much looking forward to having a very chill weekend, long weekend, do some reading. I am working on a cross-stitch project that I am, I mean, I was hoping to finish in time for Christmas. I don't think that is gonna happen, but I'm gonna still try. And this weekend will give me a long time to work on it. So, that is my Thanksgiving plan. It's just very chill. I'm looking forward to some really yummy food. And yeah, just having a chill long weekend. And this episode should also be just right along that theme of chill, warm hug. We are doing a fan and my personal favorite episode, our annual SRHR Hero Origin Story episode. And we had so many submissions this year that we're actually gonna be doing two episodes of this. So, today you're gonna get the first couple, and then we'll have another one in a couple weeks where you will hear the rest. So, enjoy hearing how some great sexual and reproductive health and rights advocates got started in this field. Enjoy.