Sunday, July 08, 2007

Good News Everyone

I’ve landed an internship that starts next week at a brand new organization that aims to train health care workers so that they can provide reproductive health care to underserved women who desperately need it. This includes providing abortions, for access is extremely limited in the Midwest, especially for rural women and women in poverty. The organization will also provide lectures, workshops, classes, counseling and other activities. I’m ecstatic to be a part of this organization—women’s health and reproductive rights has always been an important issue to me and one that I intensely studied in college.

For the time being I’ll still be temping 40 hours a week in addition to my internship, but as time goes on the organization that I’ll be working for may be able to take me on full time. (Fingers crossed.) I still plan to keep my fan girl fire burning—I’ll try to keep on posting here once a week, hanging out at the Iris boards and will still be updating Jade Reporting. (You know we’re looking for volunteers, right?)

6 comments:

Revena said...

That's great! What an exciting internship opportunity.

100LittleDolls said...

Thanks, Revena. I don't think I would have had the guts to try out for such an intense internship if I didn't have the support of the feminist online community. :)

Amy Reads said...

Congrats! Keep fighting the good fight!
(and more importantly, get paid to do it, Friend!).
Ciao,
Amy

Brinstar said...

Woo hoo! Congratulatiions! That sounds really cool!

Mickle said...

awesome and congrats!

be sure to try to take a breather once in awhile :)

100LittleDolls said...

Thanks so much Amy, Brinstar and Mickle!