who's been doing some great work with reproductive justice.

She's an actor and an activist.

Please welcome Poppy.

Hey Poppy!

Hi!

It's so good of you to take some time out

from your schedule as a smash hit sitcom star.

Yeah, the cult classic, Sunnyside,

right up there with Donnie Darko.

It really is the Donnie Darko of sitcoms.

It really is.

It's the only way to describe it.

And you are the Jake Gyllenhaal of indie comedy,

is what everyone says.

I keep saying that to Deadline.

They keep sending me the same cease and desist.

Thank you for being here.

I wanted to talk to you because

you're doing something cool with this time,

and maybe you can tell us a little bit about

some of your activism work.

You can probably explain it a little bit better

than I can, but it's around reproductive justice,

which is a very important issue right now

and is getting even more serious

because of our recent Supreme Court woopsie-daisies.

Yeah.

So I sit on the board of a really incredible

organization called SisterSong,

SisterSong women of color reproductive justice collective.

And it is entirely led by Black, Indigenous,

Latinx, and Asian Pacific Islander women of color

and queer, trans people of color

with the idea that with need to be

centering the most marginalized communities first

if we're trying to create the liberated world

that we are dreaming of.

And the reason why it's reproductive justice

is because kind of prior to this

the movement around abortion was very much

like a white second wave feminist framework of it,

in terms of pro choice and anti choice.

That's how abortion was talked about

and that was sort of the extent of the conversation

about body autonomy and rights,

but the idea here is that you don't really have

choice actually, if you don't have access.

You don't have choice if you're facing state violence.

You don't have choice if you're undocumented

and you're fearing deportation.

You don't have choice if you're incarcerated.

So, this is more about access.

It's about meeting communities and people where they're at

and it's really shifting the conversation

into a way that's looking more wholistically at,

SisterSong says it really great.

They're like, it's about people's right

to have children if they want to,

not have children if they don't want to,

and to raise their families in safe

and sustainable environments.

That's the organization.

They're the best, they're so great.

More recently during quarantine,

I started a campaign within SisterSong

called Asians for Black Births,

which is in support of the work that

Deputy Director Leah Jones at SisterSong is doing.

That's called the Birth Justice Care Fund,

which is just providing direct funds

for right now primarily Black mamas

and caregivers in Georgia,

just support around birth, postpartum,

labor, doula needs, midwives, et cetera.

And so, this campaign, Asians for Black Births,

is really rallying my Asian American

and Asian Pacific Islander communities

to be supporting this work.

And it's not just a fundraiser.

We're hoping that we're using this

to actually kind of share information

with Asian American communities

who historically have been very complicit with whiteness,

have not really examined their own proximity to whiteness,

have not always shown solidarity

with Black and brown communities,

and really asking ourselves during this moment

to be like, we need to look at our own histories

and our complicities to understand

how we show up as migrants in this moment in time.

Okay, so as far as the organization goes,

it's helping people with actual resources,

or some of the money is going towards

just supporting some of these?

Yeah, so the Birth Justice Care Fund

is direct monetary support for people that are giving birth,

but SisterSong at large, they do all sorts of things,

including court cases.

Well, you're doing really great work,

and you're honestly making us look bad

for not doing the same.

So if people want to support SisterSong

and the work you're doing,

which you've already raised a lot of money,

where can people find you if they want to help out?

For Asians for Black Births you can go to

@asiansforblackbirths on Instagram.

There's a link that goes to the GoFundMe,

and yeah, learn more about SisterSong.

They're on Instagram @sistersong_woc

and sistersong.net.

So go there.

Go there.

Okay, thank you so much for talking with us

and educating us and letting us know

what we can do to help,

because there's honestly so many things out there,

that just to narrow it down is great.

Love you, Moses!

Thank you!

Love you too!

Thank you so much.

It's good seeing you.

Poppy Liu, everyone.

The organization is SisterSong.