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Oct 16, 2024 | 
wearethemeteor.com | Shannon Melero-Urena |Shannon Melero
Happy Monduesday, Meteor readers,To mark the final day of Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month, we’re going to take a little stroll through the existential identity crisis of your favorite newsletter gal (🙋♀️). Plus, we’re taking a moment to salute the one and only Tarana Burke and applaud President Barack Obama’s words to Black male voters. And speaking of voting! We are three short weeks away from Election Day. Do you know where your polling place is? Is your registration up to date?
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
wearethemeteor.com | Shannon Melero-Urena
Greetings, Meteor readers,I’ve been near tears all week and it’s not just because of this guy. But it’s college move-in week for lots of youngsters, including the eldest Gen-Zer in my family, and for anyone else out there trying not to weep in the doorway of a dorm room, we send hugs. In today’s newsletter, we’re looking at another reason you might be tearing up: the emotion on display at the Democratic National Convention—heading into its final night tonight and a Big Speech from the candidate.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
wearethemeteor.com | Shannon Melero-Urena
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Rafa Kidvai |LWC Studios |Anne Lim |LaTosha Brown |Cindi Leive |Cazembe Murphy Jackson | +8 more
Abortion bans, voter suppression, criminalization…the list of things standing between us and true reproductive justice can feel endless. So where do we go from here? What will success look like? (No, it’s not begging for Roe’s return!) In the season finale, Renee and Regina talk about what they’ve learned from this season’s guests, ideas about how to get involved, and give us all hope for the future—and listeners share ways to care for one another as we find freedom. Because: we will find freedom.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | LaTosha Brown |Tara Abrahams |Renee Bracey Sherman |Cindi Leive |Shannon Melero-Urena |LWC Studios | +4 more
Ever wonder how a country where most people support abortion access keeps passing such ugly abortion bans? Renee and Regina have answers! And they promise to talk about gerrymandering without putting you to sleep. In this episode, they explain the link between voter suppression, racism and abortion bans—and then LaTosha Brown of Black Voters Matter joins us to explain what’s really happening across the country, and what we can all do about it.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Kendall Ciesemier |Cazembe Murphy Jackson |Tara Abrahams |LWC Studios |Cindi Leive |Shannon Melero-Urena | +5 more
Who gets left out of the national conversation about abortion? Two key groups: people with disabilities, and trans people. In this riveting episode, Renee and Regina get into why that is, and what it costs us. First, Kendall Ciesemier of the ACLU joins the conversation to talk about how the abortion debate has used disabled people as pawns; and then Cazembe Murphy Jackson of WeTestify highlights what the trans and repro rights movements really have in common.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Renee Bracey Sherman |Tracy A. Weitz |Kojin Tashiro |Shannon Melero-Urena |Juleyka Lantigua |Tara Abrahams | +4 more
Abortion stigma is so baked into our culture that even some pro-choice politicians won’t say the word. But Renee and Regina will! Abortion! In this episode, they sit down with Dr. Tracy Weitz to understand where the stigma comes from, why even popular slogans like “safe, legal, and rare” perpetuate it, and what a world without stigma would actually look like.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | LWC Studios |Juleyka Lantigua |Anne Lim |Cindi Leive |Tara Abrahams |Regina Mahone | +3 more
In their first episode, Renee and Regina take on some of the most common myths about abortion—and trace the relationship between anti-Blackness and abortion bans in the U.S., and how white supremacy helped get us into this mess we’re in. Plus, they talk about their own personal paths to reproductive justice, and introduce There Are Other Books, a segment about a book about abortion that isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale – this time, it’s Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
wearethemeteor.com | Shannon Melero-Urena
After his death, I pushed my grief as far down as I could manage, piling everything else in my life on top of it. I was a new-ish mom in the middle of buying a house and trying to focus on the “more important” work of covering the bigger things going on in the world. It felt selfish to be caught up in my own sadness when there are things that feel so much worse happening in the world—mass killings, mothers holding their babies for the last time, families separated, houses destroyed.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
wearethemeteor.com | Shannon Melero-Urena
Around this time last year, I was waddling around my baby shower, taking pictures, and picking food off people’s plates (pregnant privilege) when a friend of a friend came up to me and whispered, “I hated my baby shower, too. But at least it’s almost over.” I gave a non-committal smile and pretended I had to use the bathroom. Exchanges like this were a regular occurrence throughout my pregnancy; everyone I talked to projected their own experiences onto mine.
