RING IN THE NEW: VOL 32, NO. 18 JAN. 18, 2017 NEW CONGRESS, www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com NEW PRESIDENT, OLD DIVISIONS BY DAVID THILL President-elect Donald Trump said that mar- riage equality is “done” and “settled” when he sat down for an interview with CBS’ Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes shortly after the election. “It’s law,” he stated. But his choice for vice president, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence—who drew national criticism in 2015 when he signed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act into Indiana law—raises concerns, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, of Illinois’ 2nd Congressional Dis- trict, told Windy City Times. “Supposedly, Presi- dent-elect Trump is accepting and open-minded,” she said, “but … we’ll see.” The results of the presidential election left many members of underrepresented groups, in- cluding the LGBTQ community, unsure of what FAREWELL, OBAMA the coming years hold for them, on local, state and national levels. 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THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Jennifer Holliday, American Horror Story and Anna Wintour. Bent Nights reviews shows by Mutts, Archie Powell and the Exports, and plus others. DAILY BREAKING NEWS Photo of Archie Powell by Vern Hester 4 Jan. 18, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES Planned Parenthood GUEST COLUMN prepares for fight of its life BY RA MENDOZA BY GREtcHEN RACHEL HAMMOND provided the transgender and gender non-binary communities with Hormone Replacement Therapy The Embodied Power In as much as conservative Republicans have (HRT) which, in the majority of cases is an essen- waged their crusade against the civil and human tial step in both mental and physical well-being. of Standing Rock rights of the LGBTQ community, they have sought Windy City Times spoke with Dr. Amy Whitaker, I remember the last evening at Oceti much deeper and much more real than I to wield the same authority in both clandestine the medical director of Planned Parenthood of Il- Sakowin so clearly. I had begun the day have experienced before. and overt efforts to control the reproductive lives linois, to ask if Planned Parenthood can weather with a plan, but like the few days before, I came to Oceti Sakowin not quite sure of women. the present storm. ended the day surprised by the ways my of all the reasons why, but guided more A woman’s right to the governance of her own “The real consequences are going to be for plans had failed to work out in the best by this feeling of invitation. I’ve been body has been a battleground of increased inten- our patients,” she said. “In a lot of the lan- of ways. drawn to activism and justice work for sity ever since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court deci- guage about defunding Planned Parenthood, I had planned on attending meetings the last four years. My job keeps me in sion upholding the right to privacy of Jane Roe. there’s this idea that we just get a check from and doing outreach (volunteering) at the spaces where I’m able to educate and kitchen like I had done the day before. train people with similar desires to en- But instead, my meeting turned into a ter into the same kind of work, but my much-needed time of debrief and pro- relationships keep me continually in cess for those of us planning on heading this heart space where I keep asking the home. My outreach time at the kitchen question of the realness of embodiment turned into a few hours standing at the (solidarity); knowing the issue and criti- seven councils fire or sacred fire. (The cally thinking with our minds, working original Sioux tribe was made up of Seven towards the intended goal with our bod- Council Fires. Each of these Council Fires ies, and also feeling the intensity of the was made up of individual bands, based longing for restoration … and healing. on kinship, dialect, and geographic prox- Standing Rock was a place of healing imity. This fire was lit when the seven for me. It was a place of embodiment. councils joined together again at Stand- What I mean by that is this: The call to ing Rock.) justice, to stand alongside the Standing One of the wrestlings I navigated over Rock Sioux to protect the water was a my time at camp was this internal ten- movement to bring an end to the final- sion of “doing” versus “being.” I place ization of the pipeline and call out the ultimate importance on what I can do, corruption of Energy Transfer Partners how I can be helpful, how I can meet a and to name the historical genocide of need—but for me, Standing Rock wasn’t Native peoples that is happening again if a place where I was needed based on this pipeline goes into effect. The call to what I can do necessarily, but for what I end this pipeline, to kill the black snake can long for, pray for, and embody. So fol- (the pipeline), for me has become an em- lowing the invitation of impromptu pro- bodied call to see and to love and to and cess time of the morning, I went to the to pray and to recognize the sacredness Planned Parenthood. sacred fire and stood there. As I stood that we, humanity, and creation hold. Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond there, I found myself being welcomed Standing Rock is a place that is al- into another space of intentionality and lowing the healing and reconnection of Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood offers a wide the government. But that’s not how we receive process. humanity and creation in a way that is range of services to millions of women, men, federal funds. We basically receive [them] by A group of about 70 women walked powerful and it has shifted me. I’m won- trans and gender non-binary individuals across seeing women and men who have Medicaid for into camp from the main road and en- dering how those shifts will manifest in the country. Because abortions are among those their insurance or who are using money from the circled the fire. Men were asked to stand my life. It is really more like anxious an- services, the more-than-century-old sexual and Title X Family Planning Program to get their ser- toward the back and I moved forward. ticipation. I left there with a deep long- reproductive health organization has consistently vices with us. So the consequences are going to For the next hour or so female elders and ing to love more, to honor those I see, to been the target of legal attacks and domestic ter- be that those men and women will not have as leaders spoke of their stories and expe- root myself in the sacredness of life, and rorism aimed at its centers and employees. many options for where they are able to get their riences, named the pain and trauma of to let it all change me. That is the gift of Somehow, it has weathered all of these storms. healthcare services.” the sexual violence enacted on their bod- Standing Rock, that is the kind of gen- But now, with the coming installation of Pres- According to Whitaker, a coordinated congres- ies—sacred, life-bearing bodies. Women erative justice I long for. It exists, it can ident-elect Donald Trump, GOP members of the sional assault “repealing the ACA [Affordable Care are life givers, the water is a life giver. be lived and felt, and I want to follow it. Republican-controlled 115th Congress are at- Act], defunding Planned Parenthood, limiting There was this intense circular connec- After the women finished sharing and tempting to seize an opportunity to cut some 40 Medicaid and Title X services will leave patients tion being made in that moment between the circle dispersed, I walked back to our percent of Planned Parenthood’s budget (or more without coverage and [they] will miss out on vi- humanity and creation, between women campsite.