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SPARK Fellowship Application is open!

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The SPARK Fellowship is a 9-month leadership development and organizing fellowship designed to introduce fellows to Reproductive Justice and the RJ Movement. Fellows will gain access to all of SPARK’s reproductive justice and organizing trainings, organize with and for SPARK, and be given the space and resources to work on your own RJ programming.

We expect fellows to come into the SPARK office at least once every couple of weeks for a check-in. The rest of the fellowship can be remote, depending on the schedule that is worked out between the fellow and the SPARK staff member.

SPARK Fellowship Description 2019

CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR THE 2019/2020 SPARK FELLOWSHIP


APPLICATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 22, 2019

INTERVIEWS: SEPTEMBER 3-9, 2019

DECISION ANNOUNCED: SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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Booked & Busy!

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Get Lit with SPARK presents “Booked & Busy” a resume and cover letter workshop.

Do you need help cleaning up your resume?
Do you know the secret to the perfect cover letter?
Do you need professional head shots?

Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity to get help on your resume and cover letter!!

SPARK will provide assistance creating or editing your resume, cover letter or bio!

Professional headshots will be from 11am-1pm.
Please sign up for a time slot below to reserve your headshot time!

https://spark207crj.wufoo.com/forms/z1tpza5m10a2ra7/

This is a stop in event! Come anytime between the hours of 11 and 3pm for resume and cover letter help. If you want headshots taken make sure to come in from 11 to 1pm.

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SPARK Reproductive Justice Now!, Inc. responds to the signing of HB481 in Atlanta, Georgia

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SPARK Reproductive Justice Now!, Inc. responds to the signing of HB481 in Atlanta, Georgia

Tuesday, May 7, 2019:

In considering GA’s extremely inferior and detrimental health crisis, especially amongst Black women and Queer, Trans and nonbinary folks, SPARK is dedicated to pursuing  proactive ways of advancing our healthcare systems, practices and outcomes. Unfortunately, our legislators have decided to play politics with Georgians and we are now here to discuss how the government has inserted itself in our personal and private life decisions by enforcing an abortion ban. To be clear, this abortion ban is a ban on health care.

It is forced pregnancy bill that denies a person their right to self-determination and bodily autonomy. This is a critical public health issue and if this ban is put in place, it will become an injurious public health crisis for this state. We can not afford this! Georgia already has the worst maternal health outcomes and maternal morbidity AND mortality rates in our nation, comparable to the maternal health outcomes of underdeveloped countries.

Georgians deserve policies and laws that eliminate systemic and structural barriers to adequate reproductive and comprehensive care, and provide universal and meaningful access to quality healthcare.

Put simply, when people lack access to safe abortion services, they die. Period. History, our current stories, and public health research/data proves that. Complications of unsafe abortions are among the leading causes of maternal illness and death. Lack of access –and now restriction of access — will not result in people not having abortions. This will only result in an increased amount of unsafe abortions. This is a critical reproductive justice and public health issue specifically for Black, brown, indigenous, Trans and Queer folks who already have severe limitations to access to affordable and affirming reproductive and sexual health services and healthcare coverage.

SPARK and our partners will continue to do the work of ending white supremacy, patriarchy and attacks on bodily autonomy. Please do not be discouraged, stay engaged and stay vigilant! We will continue to work with our legislative champions, as well as, community leaders to put forth a proactive Reproductive Justice agenda that aims to save lives and uplift our shared liberation.

For more information on SPARK and how to stay civically engaged contact:

Dr. Krystal Redman
Executive Director
SPARK Reproductive Justice Now!, Inc
info@sparkrj.org
www.sparkrj.org

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SPARK’S 2019 FYRE Applications are open!

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Calling all creatives! SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 2019 FYRE Media Justice Camp! This year’s FYRE Camp, Read to Filth, seeks to hold an intentional space for Queer and Trans young people of color and cis Black women in the South. We intend to hold this space for movement building and elevating our voices through the creation of a ZINE!

A zine is a compilation of illustrations, poems, narratives, essays, and photos that typically follow a central theme! The theme for this zine is “Our Lives, Our Stories.”

So, if you’re a photographer, writer, poet, illustrator, or you’re interested in learning more about these creative outlets in relation to Reproductive Justice…this is the camp for you!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CAMP AND HOW TO APPLY!

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SPARK has a new If/When/How RJ Fellow!

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For ten years, If/When/How’s Reproductive Justice Fellowship Program (RJFP) has fueled a growing and powerful group of new legal advocates who are part of a one-of-a-kind legal fellowship for law school graduates who want to change the face of RJ lawyering. To date, the RJFP has launched the careers of 74 lawyers who have a passion for reproductive rights and justice, placing them at both local and national nonprofits from coast to coast.

Today, If/When/How is proud to announce the RJFP’s tenth cohort, and to introduce the world to these powerful advocates who are lawyering for reproductive justice. If/When/How Fellows in the RJ Federal program spend a year with a window on Washington, D.C., and our RJ State and RJ-HIV program Fellows help build power for the movement at placement organizations in Tennessee, Georgia, and California that are working at the intersection of myriad issues to promote reproductive justice for all people.

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