For over a decade, I’ve worked to create change in the lives of Black girls through sexual health education, sexual violence prevention, reproductive justice advocacy, and organizing to end to the school to prison nexus for girls of color. I’ve done this work alongside several organizations including the Girls for Gender Equity, Sadie Nash Leadership Project, Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association, and Advocates for Youth.
I’m currently a doctoral student in Critical Social Psychology at the CUNY Grad Center.
My research hopes to trace Black girls’ sexual vulnerability & negative reproductive experience back to a long-standing history of social injustice.
My research explores how policies, and social norms related to Black girls’ sexual lives shape and produce prevailing discourses about Black girls’ sexuality and, ultimately, their adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
When I’m not fighting for our liberation (which is almost never) you can find me collecting sneakers, reading books authored by Black women and sipping lemonade on my stoop.
Hey!
I’m Brittany Brathwaite (pronouns: her/she like the chocolate bar) and the architect behind the dreams for LAB (dreams for Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsy) thinker-maker-space.
I’m a Black queer young woman born and raised on Lenape Territory (now referred to as Bed Stuy, Brooklyn) who once was a curious, high-pitched, unapologetic Black girl.
These days most people know me as a: reproductive justice activist, justice designer, youth worker, entrepreneur and community accountable scholar with a deep commitment to supporting the leadership, organizing, and healing of Black women and girls.
