— was also established in 2018 to provide mental and reproductive healthcare to food and beverage workers in Houston. Earlier this month, the local fund supported an “IUD Day,” providing free long-term contraception — 40 IUDs and 6 vasectomies — to service workers. Both funds are currently navigating the evolving, patchwork legal landscape.
As the cost of food and gas spikes, Edwards sees more service industry workers struggling to build the families they want — whether that means seeking out an abortion or providing for kids they choose to have. , which hosts monthly fundraisers for different social causes with a slogan of “Eat Well & Fuck Racism.” In July, they hosted a dinner with symbolically laden menu items — blood stew, baby lamb, papaya, and pineapple, seafood ceviche, and an apple desert mocking biblical folklore — to raise money for two local abortion funds, which many of the town’s service workers rely upon.
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