MERJ

To celebrate its radical roots, this Pride we are launching a campaign against the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021. Read our statement about why as a group of queer migrants and ethnic minorities, we are against hate crime laws.   We believe that hate crime legislation doesn’t prevent harm, it actively causes harm to […]

MERJ Principles MERJ is a self-organised, non-hierarchical group of migrant and ethnic minority women, trans, non-binary people, and any one of a marginalised gender who doesn’t adhere to the Western gender binaries. MERJ stands for reproductive justice in its broader meaning, from bodily autonomy to economic justice, and is unequivocably pro-choice. MERJ pursues the visibility […]

On this Trans Day of Visibility, we want to visibilise the most invisible who continue to be ignored and forgotten by the mainstream white feminist and LGBT discourse. We also want to celebrate trans, non-binary, and intersex people of colour in all of their gender expressions as a revolutionary act of anti-imperialism and love.    […]

I am writing this post to address the issues of carceral feminism and white savourism many of us POC and Black people faced recently when a notable white woman activist, Emma Jane Dempsey, an ex leader of the Victim’s Alliance, decided to mass block all of us for criticising her tweet. EJD’s original tweet encouraged […]

We are heartbroken over the death of George Nkencho and we extend our condolences and sympathy to his family and friends at this desperately traumatic time. We are disturbed by the discourse surrounding George Nkencho’s murder and understand how traumatic it is to see for our Black brother, sisters and siblings. George Nkencho’s death should […]

Abolition 101 – Frequently Asked Questions TW: harm, violence, mention of rape. Harm has occurred. How do we want to respond? Punishment for the abusers!! Punishment does not undo the harm, nor does it promote healing for those who have experienced harm. More importantly, it does not tackle the root causes of harm (misogyny, racism, […]

On the 25th of May 2020, a white police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd, a black man, for 7 minutes until he murdered him. That man is not an exception as within the days since Floyd’s murder we have seen Breonna Taylor shot by the cops while asleep in her apartment, Tony […]

Goals for Organisational Structure: non-hierarchy balanced division of labour diverse, representative membership accessible  accountable to ourselves and each other feedback and share information, learning and skills collective decision making generally, but autonomous decision making by groups and reps protect and prioritize safety of members recognise power and privilege and platform those most marginalised in society […]

MERJ Principles MERJ is a self-organised, non-hierarchical group of migrant and ethnic minority women, trans and non-binary people. MERJ stands for reproductive justice in its broader meaning, from bodily autonomy to economic justice, and is unequivocally pro-choice. MERJ pursues the visibility of migrant and ethnic minority voices speaking for themselves. MERJ’s feminism is intersectional. MERJ […]

The virus doesn’t discriminate; our institutions and structures do!  Demands from a Pandemic Ireland We are an affected-led coalition consisting predominantly of grassroot groups and organisers who have joined together during this pandemic to reiterate the urgency of our message and highlight the intersectional failures of the system. We are glad to see mutual aid […]

STATEMENT FROM MERJ- MIGRANTS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ON IRELAND’S ABORTION LEGISLATION   More than a year after the referendum, MERJ is writing a statement to address the reality of abortion for migrants. We are starting to receive information on issues migrants face in accessing abortions and we think it is important to […]

“I’m a member of MERJ. We are Migrants and Ethnic minorities for Reproductive Justice because we know that the struggle for ‘women’s rights’ in Ireland didn’t end last May with a YES vote. Reproductive Justice is broad and our approach to it intersectional because as Audre Lorde said, “We don’t live single issue lives”. Reproductive […]

by Jane X. It was Mothers’ Day a few days ago, my “supposed due date” is coming soon, and I am here, thinking about mothers who have not brought their babies home, particularly women from minority backgrounds, like me, who tend to have bad experiences in Irish hospitals, worse even than their Irish counterparts. With […]

If you ask me what it’s like being a migrant woman in Ireland I’d say it is a constant pressure. I have been a migrant woman in both England and Ireland. The difference in terms of reproductive health was a peace of mind. A peace of mind that came with the fact that I didn’t […]

MERJ- Migrants and Ethnic Minorities for Reproductive Justice is a grassroots movement by migrants and for migrants. The organisation was founded by women of colour who did not see themselves represented in the conversations surrounding the referendum. Women who saw Savita’s image being used in the campaign, yet no women who looked like Savita taking […]

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