Abortion, reproductive care, gender-affirming care, and access seem to all be more criminalized each week, with fascists tirelessly planning new ways to target providers, advocates, and patients.

Black August is an annual commemoration of political prisoners and resistance movements past and present. It's a perfect time for the RJ movement to ask necessary questions: When people are arrested for miscarriages and abortions, shouldn't we consider them political prisoners? How might we approach our work differently with that understanding, and how might our own movement sustain by connecting to the larger political prisoners movement? How do we build the infrastructure today, to protect us when they come for us tomorrow? The answer is not to co-opt Black August, but to commit to its four tenets - Study, Fast, Train, Fight - to join in a powerful legacy of resistance with our communities.