Muslim Sisters' Leadership Institute

Muslim Sisters' Leadership Institute

The Muslim Sisters' Leadership Institute program incorporates reproductive justice, Islamophobia, sex education, STI and teen pregnancy prevention, racism, sexism, immigration, LGBTQ rights, and the intersectionality of these identities and experiences.

Purpose of MSLI
Empower young women to make their own reproductive choices, and for young women to utilize the arts and media to raise awareness of reproductive justice within their community through these PSAs; to continue centralizing the experiences of young Muslim women in the Indo-Caribbean community with regard to sexual health and reproductive justice.

Goals of the Muslim Sisters Leadership Institute

• Analysis of reproductive oppression
  
• Educate youth three main frameworks for fighting reproductive oppression: [1] Reproductive Health, [2] Reproductive Rights, and [3] Reproductive Justice
• Learn history of the reproductive justice movement and begin politicization of themselves within it
• Develop a context for the way in which cultural pressures, social pressures, and Islamophobia impact their lives as young women of color
• Create Public Service Announcements that were applicable to the program.

MSLI Public Service Announcements

Face the Reality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmoy875na-w

We're ONE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MbgOwNAQ_Q

Amalgamate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_3WEcxTZQc

Let's Make Social Change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCmO1WV7k90