Celebrating and Uplifting the Womxn of LPP

March 3, 2021

Today LPP is celebrating International Womxn's Day! Learn more about how the womxn leading LPP #ChooseToChallenge below!


International Womxn's Day Choose To Challenge collage of photos of the women who work for LPP


The theme for this year's International Womxn's Day is "Choose to Challenge."

 

A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.


We can all choose to seek out and celebrate womxn's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.

 

From challenge comes change.

 

This International Womxn’s Day, we're celebrating the womxn and nonbinary individuals leading LPP as they #ChooseToChallenge and reimagine the systems that lead to millions of womxn, mothers, sisters, and daughters being arrested and imprisoned for cannabis offenses across the globe.


We also stand in solidarity with our incarcerated womxn and nonbinary constituents, who sadly, don't always have the ability to challenge these systems.


Today and every day, we fight for them.

 

You can learn more about the womxn fighting for justice at LPP here.


Towards Freedom,

The LPP Team

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