Miriam Perez

• A writer, blogger and reproductive justice activist, Miriam Perez is a refreshing speaker on LGBTQ issues, reproductive rights, and her own identity as a queer Latina.

Miriam Zoila Pérez is a 24-year-old North Carolina native whose upbringing in a Cuban immigrant household was pretty far from Southern.

A graduate of Swarthmore College, she is a writer, blogger and reproductive justice activist.

Additionally, she is an organizer and advocate for Latina women, a case manager assisting pregnant immigrant women, and a reproductive justice organizer with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.

Straddling herself between many worlds, Perez is constantly pushing boundaries and making connections between her multiple identities and passions. Her writing ranges from reproductive rights to LGBTQ issues to her own experiences as a queer Latina. Coming out in a Cuban family as well as grappling with gender non-conformity have provided plenty of fodder for both her activism and writing.

She is an editor at the popular, and widely-read, blog Feministing.com, as well as the founder and sole blogger of RadicalDoula.com, where she writes about issues relating to her broader progressive vision for birth activism. Her writing has also appeared in Bitch Magazine, The Nation, RH Reality Check, Campus Progress and Alternet.

Most recently Perez’s work has been published in two edited editions: “Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape” and “Sinister Wisdom: Latina Lesbians.". 

She was recently awarded the 2009 Young Women of Achievement Award by the Women’s Information Network of Washington DC.