Join us...June 18
Come share your stories about the health care system.
For example—your experiences with doctors, clinics, hospitals, insurance providers, and age, size, race, class, gender or disability insensitivities.
For example—your experiences with doctors, clinics, hospitals, insurance providers, and age, size, race, class, gender or disability insensitivities.
Health care is a human right...
We deserve affordable, accessible and quality health care.
RSVP at SpeakOut@spokenexistence.com
We will be joined by Byllye Avery...
Byllye Avery is co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need. A dreamer,
a visionary and a grassroots realist, she has combined activism with social responsibility to explore
women’s health issues. Founder of the National Black Women’s Health Project and the Avery Institute for
Social Change, Byllye Avery has dedicated the last 30 years to inspiring women with her experiences, wisdom and spirit.
There’s just a real special magic that happens
when women come together to work together
in an effective way for a common cause.
– BYLLYE AVERY
when women come together to work together
in an effective way for a common cause.
– BYLLYE AVERY
Why should women raise our voices for health care reform?
Byllye: The reason why women should raise our voices is because we have a
unique perspective about health care and what our health care needs are, and our
perspectives need to be in the mix.
unique perspective about health care and what our health care needs are, and our
perspectives need to be in the mix.
Our bodies, our lives, our health and our priorities are different from men’s. If
you don’t get the voices of everyone you run the risk of developing services that
are ineffective and that don’t meet the people’s needs. Also, we’re the caretakers.
We take care of everybody -- lot of the time before we take care of ourselves --
and we make spaces for our lovers, our sisters, our aunts, our children and our
families, so it’s very important.
and we make spaces for our lovers, our sisters, our aunts, our children and our
families, so it’s very important.
There’s power in our collective voices. It’s really easy to not do something... But
it’s much easier go along when see other people are doing something. You
become motivated, you want to join. Our whole notion is to do good in the world,
to unite with other people. There’s just a real special magic that happens when
women come together to work together in an effective way for a common cause.
it’s much easier go along when see other people are doing something. You
become motivated, you want to join. Our whole notion is to do good in the world,
to unite with other people. There’s just a real special magic that happens when
women come together to work together in an effective way for a common cause.
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