AF3IRM/GabNet Irivine member, Christina, honors Women Defender, Mia Mingus
Mia Mingus
Age: 28
Co-Executive Director of SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
With the Senate’s most recent amendments to healthcare reform, I choose to spotlight Mia Mingus. Mia Mingus is an active defender of women’s reproductive rights. She is co-executive director of SPARK, a coalition that joins with communities to build and sustain a powerful reproductive justice movement throughout Georgia and the South.
Current healthcare reform has denied recognition of women’s reproductive rights as worthy of being provided to our country’s citizens. Let us recognize the work Ms. Mingus is doing in the field of women’s reproductive rights, as an advocate for women and an organizer for communities around her.
In a speech she delivered on gender violence, Ms. Mingus said:
“Violence against women is a form of sexism and we cannot end it until we can end sexism. Sexism is a form of oppression and we cannot end it until we end oppression—in all forms.
But in order to do this we must commit ourselves to forging a better world and a better community.”
Mia Mingus is also involved in advocacy for the queer, API, and disability social justice movements. She was named one of the 30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30 for 2009 on Angry Asian Man’s annual list.
For more information, see her recognition on Asian-American blog http://www.angryasianman.com/2009/05/30-under-30-mia-mingus.html.
