What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary things,

and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real and dive into

the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club. So I lived in southern Louisiana,

and people in Northern Louisiana could travel to Southern Louisiana to get an abortion, but even now, like, we'd have to travel out of state.

So even people who might have been able to kind of withstand and like, you know, get some money, go to an abortion fund, find the funds to have an abortion. I feel like now it's not even an option because the barriers have just gotten so high that people are going to be forced to become parents, especially black and brown women, as well as trans people and queer people.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On today's episode we have with us,

Laquia Williams, who is a reproductive justice activist, digital creator, and host of the Black

Feminist Rants podcast. And today, we're going to be diving into Laquia's story, reproductive justice, the overturn of Roe versus Wade, and how women are being affected today. Laquia, thank you so much for being with us today. Of course. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Yeah. So why don't you give our listeners a short summary of what it is you do. Definitely. So I do quite a few things.

In my full-time job, I work at the University of California, San Francisco, working specifically

at a reproductive justice and reproductive health center focused on birthing outcomes for black and brown

parents and babies. And I do a couple of like gig things. So I'm the social media manager

for the miscarriage and abortion hotline, which is a great resource for people who are self-managing their abortion or having a miscarriage. It's a group of licensed health care providers who give medical advice to people having an abortion or a miscarriage. And so I do social for them. And then I'm a community coordinator for a pro-abortion coalition of different organizations who are doing

culture shift work around destigmatizing abortion. And also, I newly just joined the board of directors

for California Statewide Abortion Fund, Access RJ. Oh, wow. And so how did you get into this

background? Like, how did you find this path for yourself? Yeah, so I'm actually doing different

work kind of than what my degree is specifically in. I recently graduated from undergrad in

2021 with my bachelor's in neuroscience and a minor in Africana Studies. And I chose that path because

I plan to apply to medical school and be an abortion provider, which kind of informs like the

work that I'm doing now in preparation for that. But I really got involved in reproductive justice and wanting to be an abortion provider, which kind of informs like the work that I'm doing now in preparation for that. But I really got involved in reproductive justice and wanting to be an abortion provider kind of from my feminist learnings. I've always been kind of pro-woman and feminist growing up. And then I kind of had this time my senior year of high school where I was trying to learn more from black women that were talking about feminism. And at the time, I didn't know that black feminism was a thing. And just from like learning and reading and watching different videos, I learned that black feminism is its own theoretical framework. And I learned about reproductive justice. And I honestly felt like the reproductive justice movement found me when it was supposed to. And I feel like I just feel very connected to the movement and I feel like it's kind of like

my movement home. So that's kind of how I got involved in the work that I'm doing now.

Awesome. And then so in your own like personal lived experiences, did that like have a parallel

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