The Abortionfluencer Podcast
Behind every abortion story is a fight for dignity, freedom, and survival. Hosted by longtime activist and unapologetic truth-teller Colleen Luckett, The Abortionfluencer Podcast exposes the machinery of institutionalized misogyny still operating in our laws, our politics, and our culture — and elevates the voices of those fighting back. Each episode is a space for medical facts, feminist fire, class solidarity resistance, and the radical notion that women are human beings, not bargaining chips. Freedom means nothing without bodily autonomy ... and every future worth living demands it.
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When the Boulder Abortion Clinic suddenly closed earlier this year, its staff faced the deepest heartbreak (and let's face it: the rest of us were right there with them!).
But within a mere 5 1/2 months, they built something new from the ashes: RISE Collective, a patient-centered abortion clinic carrying forward Dr. Warren Hern’s legacy of compassionate abortion care later in pregnancy in Colorado.
In this episode, Carlos and Isabe...
Sophia Kilmer — civil rights lawyer, founder of Defend Trans Rights, and host of her own podcast, Sophie Talks — and I decided to collaborate on the intersection between trans rights and abortion rights for this episode! She’s actually the one who had the great idea to blend our platforms, because as we both know, the right-wing uses the same tired playbook to attack both trans and reproductive rights — control the body, control th...
If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, go back and start there! In the first half of my conversation with longtime abortion rights activist and former nurse Joanie (@joaniephotos42 on Instagram), we talked about the devastating personal experience that ignited her love of Planned Parenthood and abortion rights activism, her early days doing clinic defense, and how the reproductive rights movement has evolved over the decades.
In Pa...
In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Joanie (@JoaniePhotos42) shares how accessing abortion care as a teen shaped her lifelong advocacy. We talk about her early experience with Planned Parenthood, her work as a clinic escort in the '90s, her career as an RN, and how the same forces she resisted decades ago — misogyny, disinformation, and Christian nationalism — are fueling today’s attacks on bodily autonomy. Stay tuned for Par...
Trump wants to make Canada our 51st state. But when you hear about Canada's overwhelmingly strong support for reproductive rights, you may wish it were the other way around. (I sure do!)
In this episode, Sabrina Baldini, founder, After Sex Ed, joins me to unpack what’s happening on both sides of the border: from sneaky anti-choice “private member bills” creeping through Canadian Parliament, to the U.S. exporting Christian nationali...
In Part 2 of this powerful conversation, abortion justice activists Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella “Rivers” Rivera share what it was like serving time in federal prison after they were targeted by Biden's DOJ for spray-painting slogans on fake pregnancy clinics during the Summer of Rage after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
They talk about who they were locked up with (you won’t believe it!), how they got through it, some hot tips for ...
The Summer of Rage. Two abortion justice activists. A system determined to silence dissent.
In my debut episode, Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella “Rivers” Rivera share their story, from protesting Christian fake pregnancy clinics to facing federal charges under the FACE Act — bipartisan legislation from 1994 that was meant to dissuade anti-abortion violence.
In Part 1 of a two-part interview, we talk graffiti, the dangers and dec...
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