Sandra Fluke at the Democratic National Convention.

Look. I have nothing at all against Sandra Fluke personally. But nope. It couldn’t have easily been anybody else. 

There are people who speak out ALL THE TIME but no one listens to them because they are black, trans, immigrant, latin@, poor, fat, etc. (unfortunately the list is long). They take big risks to speak up but they do. 

And it saddens me that we have had multiple speakers at the DNC talk specifically about reproductive rights and none of them have been women/people of color. On a larger scale, it bothers the hell out of me that women/people of color are the hardest hit by anti-choice laws/regs and yet WE RARELY SEE THEIR FACES OR HEAR THEIR VOICES. 

This movement and its leaders need to start (really, should already be) asking hard questions starting with: Are we just fighting for reproductive rights or are we fighting for reproductive justice? On nights like tonight, when I see Cecile Richards tweet about her younger-generation almost doppleganger, “Sandra Fluke speaks for the next generation,” I know the answer and I don’t like it.