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Queer Liberation and Black Liberation are Inseparable

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Community EngagementFeatured

How Somersworth, NH’s smallest city, allows us to think big

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FeminismWriting

Lifting Each Other Up — Support networks are crucial to our existence

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Feminism is empty without intersectionality and action

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Gun ViolenceSocial Justice

Will One Less Gun Make a Difference? On Overcoming “Activism Overwhelm.”

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WordPress Content Management for Socially-Responsible Businesses

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PoliticsReproductive JusticeSocial JusticeWomen's Health

Equal Access to Abortion Matters — Repeal the Hyde Amendment

by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro
written by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro

Last week, the New Hampshire House voted on 10 laws that impact women’s health and access to safe and legal reproductive health care. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the most significant abortion-related case of the past two decades, in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. And in the past year, candidates vying for the highest office in the country have weighed in with their thoughts on women’s health in general and abortion in particular.

So, this begs the question: when equal access to reproductive health care is being discussed, who gets to frame the conversation?

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Reproductive Justice Means Access to Care

by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro
written by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro

As an uninsured young adult working three jobs, Planned Parenthood was my only option for access to birth control and well-woman exams. Since they were there for me to provide much-needed sex education, information on and access to birth control and compassionate, professional health care, I’ve become outspoken about reproductive justice and the fact that I #StandWithPP.

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CopywritingDigital Marketing

How to Pick a Name: Tips, Taxonomy and Brainstorming Process for Naming

by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro
written by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro

A name brainstorming session is one of my favorite types of collaborative meetings to participate in. In my previous role at a marketing agency, clients would often ask to us to name their new brand, company or website — and sometimes an established brand would need to name a new campaign, blog or product.

I was happy to get an exciting nomenclature refresher and expanded name brainstorming toolkit at the last #DigitalPorts. The secret sauce my process had missing? Taxonomy.

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Calling for an end to the attacks on Planned Parenthood

by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro
written by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro

Once the attacks on Planned Parenthood were proven to be a coordinated smear campaign, I joined Senator Shaheen from New Hampshire, along with Senators Patty Murray and Richard Blumenthal, along with Representatives Diana DeGette, and Jan Schakowsky, to call for an end to the efforts to take away access to necessary health care services.

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Copywriting

How to Write for Other People — The Art of Copywriting at #DigitalPorts

by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro
written by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro

My favorite quarterly Portsmouth event is Digital Portsmouth (#DigitalPorts to us on Twitter). This time around, the theme was “The Art of Copywriting” and we covered all kinds of writing — straight-up marketing copy, personal blogging, tweeting, Facebook posting, email marketing, name brainstorming, etc. The event took place at The Music Hall Loft.

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PoliticsSocial Justice

The Global Refugee Crisis — And What You Can Do About It

by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro
written by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro

According to UNCHR’s 2015 Mid-Year Trends Report, “the global refugee total, which a year ago was 19.5 million, had as of mid-2015 passed the 20 million threshold (20.2 million) for the first time since 1992. Asylum applications meanwhile were up 78 per cent (993,600) over the same period in 2014. And the numbers of internally displaced people jumped by around 2 million to an estimated 34 million.

Indications from the first half of the year suggest 2015 is on track to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first time. In a global context, that means that one person in every 122 has been forced to flee their home.” (Source: UNHCR)

How do you even wrap your brain around such a crisis?

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Events & HappeningsSocial Justice

TEDGlobal > Geneva: Bringing Global Ideas Back to Portsmouth, NH for TEDxPiscataquaRiver

by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro
written by Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro
There is something amazing about coming together with people from all over the world, who are all focused on discovering and spreading ideas in their communities.

 

I went to Geneva, a global capital of humanitarian efforts, peace and cultural diplomacy, for TEDGlobal > Geneva, along with 500 other TEDx organizers who came to learn from each other, get inspired and share ideas.
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