Follow Human Rights Watch on Twitter and Facebook here and Amnesty International on Twitter and Facebook here.

Encourage your members of Congress to not follow the Unalienable Rights Commission report as a line of policy. You can also tell your Congressmember to support the Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act in the House and Senate, which would formally recognize and affirm that reproductive rights are human rights. You can contact the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

Take time to challenge the ways in which Americans think by picturing the U.S. as a global nation rather than an exceptional international identity.

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You can follow National Women’s Law Center on Twitter and Facebook here.

Stay engaged in and educated on the democratic process and U.S. institutions.

Look toward reproductive justice organizations in order to continue to learn about the ways in which our lives our intersectional.

Start dreaming of the world that you want to live in. Eventually, we will be forced to build a new world. What does that look like in your eyes?

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First, give Planned Parenthood Action Fund a follow on both Twitter and Facebook—it is a surefire way to stay in-the-know on all things sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice!

Go to Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s website, CrisisInTheCourts.com, for a full time-line of administration court appointees, interactive outlines, and ways to engage.

Call your Senators when there is an egregious court nominee. You can contact the Capitol Switchboard at 2020-224-3121.

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First and foremost, you can follow Center for American Progress on Twitter and Facebook and stay up-to-date on their important work.

Read Center for American Progress’ report “Toward Equitable Treatments for Women’s Health During Coronavirus and Beyond” here.

Urge your Congressmembers to both pay attention to representation in clinical trials and support the Maternal Health Pandemic Response Act.

If you feel safe and compelled to do so, consider participating in COVID-based or general clinical trials.

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First and foremost, read Annerieke’s Human Rights Watch publication, “It Wasn’t Really Safety, It Was Shame,” here to learn more.

You can follow Human Rights Watch on Twitter and Facebook.

Learn more about the sex education policy in your state—contact your state representatives and advocate for medically-accurate, inclusive sex education. Learn more about HPV and the HPV vaccine, and advocate for legislation that increases awareness amongst schools and parents.

Contact your members of Congress and ask them to co-sponsor two critical bills, Real Education for Healthy Youth Act and The Youth Access to Sexual Health Services.

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First, stay up-to-date on the newest writings about reproductive and transgender rights by following Rewire. News and Facebook and Twitter. Follow Jessica Mason Pieklo on Twitter here. You can find Katelyn Burns’ pieces on Vox here and follow her on Twitter here.

Listen to perspectives and voices that are different than yours. Continue to have difficult conversations around reproductive health and rights and transgender health and rights with those that are in your social circle.

When it is safer to go outside and gather in crowds, continue to show up at rallies for reproductive and transgender health and rights. Consider becoming involved as an abortion clinic escort.

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Firstly, you can follow IPAS on Twitter and Facebook and stay up-to-date with their work on global reproductive health and rights.

Work for justice-- get involved in advocacy and activism by supporting and uplifting the messages of reproductive justice organizations and reproductive health and rights organizations!

Contact your Representatives and tell them to support the Abortion is Healthcare Everywhere Act. The Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121.

Join IPAS’ social media campaign by following them on Twitter and use the hashtag #RepealHelms to amplify the message.

Visit www.repealhelms.org to learn more about the Helms amendment and how you can help work to repeal it.

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You can follow URGE on Facebook and Twitter and stay up-to-date with their important work. You can also follow Preston on Twitter here.

Research de-funding the police and what that means. Ask yourself what it means to reallocate funds and invest them in things that lift communities up.

Further, you can do some research into the six policy priorities for achieving reproductive justice that Preston mentions in the episode. These priorities include:

1) Abortion access

2) Comprehensive sexuality education

3) Economic justice

4) Democracy reform

5) Decriminalization and creating safe communities

6) Immigrant justice

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Follow Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast on Twitter and Facebook.

Assess the status-quo and be informed. With the release of numerous reproductive health and rights-related Supreme Court cases, it can be hard to stay engaged.

Make a conscious effort to center Black voices in all aspects of your life. Then, expand that to include brown people, LGBTQ+ people, Black trans folks, and other marginalized voices.

When it comes to abortion access, it is always helpful to donate to your local abortion fund.

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You can follow National Women’s Law Center on Facebook and Twitter in order to stay engaged with this fantastic organization.

Let your members of Congress know that it’s critical to support LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive health, rights, and justice, civil rights, and more as related cases make their way in front of the Supreme Court.

If you have questions about what is happening with yours, a friend’s, or a family member’s birth control coverage, reach out on CoverHer for guidance.

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You can follow the Center for Reproductive Rights on Facebook and Twitter and stay connected with this fantastic organization as they fight for reproductive health and rights around the U.S.

Support your local abortion providers! You can donate and volunteer (safely), and find information on your local abortion funds here.

Women’s Health Protection Act would enshrine into federal law the protections of Roe v. Wade, and make it much harder for states to propose restrictions to abortion care. You can find the Senate bill and House bill here.

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We must get rid of this harmful policy.

You can follow Open Society Foundations on Facebook and Twitter here.

The GLOBE Act is a bill that is inclusive of and responsive to LGBTQ people around the world, and would repeal APLO in its entirety. You can call your Senator or representative and ask them to co-sponsor this legislation. GLOBE Act information in the House can be found here, and in the Senate here.

Talk about how bad this policy is with friends, family, and loved ones and have broad conversations on the harm that anti-LGBTQ, anti-sex work, and heteronormativity can cause around the world.

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Firstly, you can follow SIECUS: Sex Ed For Social Change on Twitter and Facebook and stay up-to-date on standards for inclusive sex education here.

Look to see what your local and school district policies are. Are they inclusive of LGBTQ+ young people? Can you find ways to improve them? If policies are not inclusive of LGBTQ+ youth, rally up supporters and go to a district meeting to demand that sex education changes. You can find resources and fact sheets on SIECUS’ website.

You can also see if your state legislators are passing legislation that is anti-trans or anti-LGBTQ+ youth. If they are, you can call and push back on discriminatory policies. Work with

champions to introduce legislation that supports LGBTQ+ sex education.

Call your members of Congress and see if they are co-sponsoring two bills; the Real Education for Health Youth Act, which would mandate comprehensive sex education and de-fund abstinence-only at the federal level, and the Youth Access to Sexual Health Services Act, which would increase access support with intense focus on access to sex education for LGBTQ+ young people. The Congressional Switchboard is 202-224-3121.

Divest from police- and resource-officer presence in schools. Find out how much your school is funding resource officers, demand for the reduction or divestment in these officers, and reallocate those funds for mental health care, sexual education, and health trainings for teachers.

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Follow Katelyn Burns on Twitter here and check out her writing on Vox here!

Find more information on Bostock vs. Clayton County here, and more information on the upcoming June Medical Services LLC vs. Russo here.

Call your Senator and ask for a vote on the Equality Act. Especially if you have a Republican Senator and especially if you live in Kentucky and Mitch McConnell is one of your Senators. You can also request the support for D.C. statehood! The Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121.

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First, you can give the International Women’s Health Coalition a follow on Twitter and Facebook and stay up-to-date on their incredible work.

Congress has the ability to counter some of what the Trump administration is trying to do in this space. Encourage your Senators and House members to be supportive of the WHO and U.S. leadership in global spaces is critical. The U.S. Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121.

Educate yourself on some of the agreements that the UN has made, such as the Sustainable Development Goals.

There are U.S.-based organizations that focus on supporting and raising money for these multilateral institutions, including Friends of UNFPA and the National Committees for UN Women. You can also support organizations that operate in this sphere and advocate for the global health of women and girls, like Population Institute or the International Women’s Health Coalition.

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First and foremost, follow the Guttmacher institute on Twitter and Facebook, and Zarah Ahmed on Twitter here.

Keep your interest in sexual and reproductive health and rights during the coronavirus pandemic. Continue to engage in self-care, but stay updated on the issues that are impacting global SRHR, especially for those in the most marginalized communities.

Stay informed. You can get the latest updates on global, federal and state developments on sexual health by signing up for the Guttmacher newsletter here.

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First and foremost, follow the National Women’s Law Center on Facebook and Twitter here and stay up-to-date on contraception access in the U.S.

Join the digital rally at 3 pm on May 5th! RSVP here. The rally will have speakers, music, and the ability to make your own poster from home. You can also tune into the livestream of the oral arguments.

Continue to have active conversations with those in your life about access to contraception and the fact that birth control access is still being argued in front of the Supreme Court as of 2020.

For more information on the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit, you can check out our podcast episode here.

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Follow Imani Gandy on Twitter here and Jessica Mason Pieklo on Twitter here. Follow Rewire.News on Facebook and Twitter.

During a time of uncertainty, when people are out of work and may be unable to afford abortion care, donate to your local abortion fund. You can find abortion funds in your state here.

Continue to have conversations with people in your life about the importance of continuing and expanding abortion access during this pandemic.

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If you are financially able, donate to abortion funds (which directly impact patient care). The National Abortion Federation and Abortion AF support clinics on-the- ground. You can also donate through the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Talk to your local representatives and people around you about what’s happening to abortion care right now. You can play a direct role in furthering awareness and education. Support your legislators in their attempts to protect abortion and limit clinic harassment.

Find more information and statistics on clinic harassment here.

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