Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to a very special episode of Boom Lawyard, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that wishes you a very happy Halloween.

Get out there and eat some full-sized candy bars. I'm Rewire News Group's editor at large,

Imani Gandy. And I'm Jess Peeklo, Rewire News Group's executive editor. Rewire Newsgroup is the one

and only home for expert repro journalism that inspires you to remember no matter what happens, we save

ourselves, folks. And the BoomLared podcast is part of that mission. So a big thanks to our subscribers

and welcome to our new listeners. So today, we are joined by the amazing Andrea Grimes. She is a Texan

through and through, a feminist, and has been covering

Repro as long as I've known her, which is about 12 years now. Wow. She's currently

vice president of research at Repro Action, a brilliant organization founded by another

Rewire alum, Erin Mattson. And before that,

she was comms director at If One How. So you know she knows her shit. She's currently the publisher

of her blog, Home with the Armadillo, but she's got a new project. She's joining forces with even more

rewire alums to start a new intersectional feminist

blog called The Fly Trap. They've got a Kickstarter if you want to help them raise money for it.

I tossed in some money because how could I not? And if you want to know what a hot possum is

and why Norman Reattis of Walking Dead fame is absolutely a hot possum, then you should check out

her TikTok account because it's hilarious. Andrea, welcome to the show. Hi, y'all. Thanks for

having me. It's so good to see you. Oh, this is great. I wasn't part of the last reunion because

you were hopping in when I was not able to do anything. So this is

especially a treat for me. I want to ask about reproaction and your job there because doing research

and APA research basically is a super badass and B really important, think right now given this particular moment in time

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