New Wave Feminists

05/21/2026

***URGENT UPDATE*** We just got word that sweet baby Sora is getting an emergency gastric tube put in. Please send all of your love, prayers, and good vibes to her and her family.

She’s so tiny and this procedure feels so big.

Also, Sora’s mother is only 19. I cannot even begin to fathom going through this with a child when you are nearly a child yourself.

Please keep her in your hearts in a special way. ❤️‍🩹 We’re doing everything we can to love her well right now.

05/20/2026

Our tiniest Texan went to the ICU this week.

What should be (and honestly still is) terrifying, has unfortunately become commonplace. Weekly her mother has to take her to the hospital.

You might remember Sora’s story from a previous post. ICE showed up at the apartment complex they were living in a few months ago, and even though her mother came here legally and Sora was born in the US, they deported first - asked questions later.

Her documents were left behind in Houston, and now her sweet, small family lives with us in limbo in Juárez.

Sora has hydrocephalus, meaning fluid frequently accumulates on her brain - among other health complications. In Texas, she was receiving adequate medical care to manage her condition. In Mexico, Karina and her mother work tirelessly to keep her stable.

This looks like frequent trips to the emergency room; leaving her sister behind at the shelter for days in end with our other moms; IV sticks where they can’t find her veins because she is so tiny, and a mother who’s watching her child suffer daily but is thankful for every day she gets with her… because none are promised, nor guaranteed.

It is an honor to be able to walk with this sweet family through this difficult time, but a tragedy it has to happen at all.

Many of you have asked how you can support them.

The most acceptable answer is obviously through prayers for this precious child, her sister and mother. But as Karina put it, for her this work “isn’t a mercy, it’s a justice.”

And that answer looks less pretty. We want change. We want corrupt systems toppled. We want the cruelty of these bad laws eliminated and the men in charge of them removed from power. We want us all, as a global society, to move towards a shared humanity that sees the dignity in every person and works to create systems that humanize human beings instead of slowly torturing and killing the most vulnerable among us.

Karina’s sense of justice comes from her deep-rooted, beautiful faith. And as an agnostic, mine is often just rage. Perhaps that’s why the universe brought us together. Where I want to set it all on fire, she cries out for my light in a dark world that’s snuffing out so much beauty and life. Everyday I learn to be a better activist through her wholistic approach to righting the world’s wrongs.

Practically though… your donations help the most right now.

With them we are able to buy Sora’s meds, Ubers to the hospital, hire coordinators to come in an assist, and stop off to get Wendy’s for her mama… that’s one of the things she misses most about the US.

Those are the ways we make love a verb. Through beauty, light, revolution, and when it all feels too big… burgers that feel like a warm hug and reminder of better times in Texas.

https://www.newwavefeminists.com/stellarshelter

05/19/2026

“In this little home, the biggest thing is my family.”

One of our moms hung this sign on her bunk yesterday. Karina sent me the picture and said as soon as she saw it, she started to tear up.

For our moms to feel safe… to feel at home… to feel a part of a family, is truly the greatest gift and the goal of this work.

Your support doesn’t simply provide a bed, it provides a home. It doesn’t just provide a roof, it provides a refuge for our moms to heal within. It doesn’t only provide basic needs at a crisis point in their lives, it allows them to find true community in other women who have traveled similar paths, know their struggles intimately, and can offer them a safe harbor in which to rest their tender, bruised hearts… like only family can.

https://www.newwavefeminists.com/stellarshelter

05/14/2026

Cool, cool… babies in jail, pregnant women miscarrying in detention, all super prolife. Nothing to see here.

At night, silence fell over the Louisiana immigration detention facility where 85-year-old Marie-Thérèse Ross was held. Then the wailing began.

Ross describes her 16 days in federal immigration custody after being arrested on April 1 in Alabama following an alleged visa overstay, and the late-in-life love story that brought her to the U.S. She has been released and returned to France.

She was held in a dormitory-style room with 58 other women, mostly mothers. Ross described strict rules, constant shouting from guards and condescending treatment.

“The prison was clean, the food was OK, but it was the way they spoke to us,” she said. “The guards could not speak without yelling.”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said that Ross overstayed her 90-day visa and that ICE detention facilities are “regularly audited and inspected” to comply with national standards.

Read more: nbcnews.to/4wtkbcW

05/06/2026

Hashtag, fashion. Hashtag, for you page.

04/29/2026

THIS. All 👏 Day 👏 Long 👏

...Did somebody say pro-birth?

Contact your legislators and ask them to support the Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act (S. 1834 / H.R. 3762): https://democracy.io/

We’re proud to be part of the bi-partisan coalition working to pass this bill. If enacted, it would require most private health insurance plans to cover pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care with no cost-sharing — similar to how many preventive services are currently covered under federal law.

That means no co-pays, deductibles, or co-insurance for maternity care, so families wouldn’t face thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs for giving birth. Care would still be paid for through the existing insurance system, but without the financial barriers that too often burden parents.

In a world where common ground is hard to find, this bill is something that we can all get behind.

04/16/2026

Hey fam! We are currently $971 towards our matching $5k donation goal!!!

If you feel called to donate, we would appreciate it more than you know.

Your support will go towards helping us take a Pro-Humanity, womb to tomb approach to college kids across the nation.

We know they are hungry for this message. We are seeing it everyday. They want to learn how to have constructive conversations on their campuses, and not call people out, but invite them in to a Consistent Life Ethic.

Thank you so so much for helping us get there. 💜

https://www.newwavefeminists.com/support

04/11/2026

Follow on insta for more of this. So beautiful and powerful.

04/08/2026

Pro-Life < Pro-Humanity

A rant follow-up…

01/08/2026

Welcome to my crazy effing brain. Whether you like it or not, I’ve been right about too many things in the last 10 years (Roe/Dobbs etc.). And maybe it’s time I push my inferiority complex to the side and step into the fact that I might actually be a canary in the coal mind… because my ADHD causes me to hyper fixate and on sh*+ and think these things through way too much. I wish I was wrong about this, but I don’t think I am.

12/30/2025

A few months ago, we wrote a post about how water is life. This community stepped up and now the Stellar Shelter is equipped with all new pipes, and fresh, clean, safe water for our sweet families.

Our mamas and babies - as well as our team - cannot thank y’all enough for supporting the Stellar Shelter so fiercely.

This month, we’ve learned that air is also life.

Go figure. 😅

In December, the entire shelter either got the flu, and/or has some sort of respiratory infection. The government shelter actually started sending us medically complicated newborns because they saw how well Karina was assisting them. As a mother herself, she truly has a gift for getting our moms and babies healthy. Her TLC is unmatched.

It’s funny, I remember when I was a new mom I admitted this really terrible thing to a friend once….

I told her I secretly loved when my kids were sick. Not, like, in a Gypsy Rose Blanchard type of way or anything. We weren’t going to Disneyland. But I could honestly say it was the one time my rambunctious brood would all calm down. And my only job as their mother was to cuddle them, give them Pedialyte, and make sure they knew they would feel better soon.

We’d curl up on the couch and watch cartoons, and I’d just get to rub their sweet little heads while they open mouthed coughed into my face, knowing full well I was getting a preview of how I’d likely be feeling the next week. 🤣 But that’s motherhood.

I’d often find myself saying what we all say in those situations… “If I could take this suffering away from you and feel it myself, I would in a heartbeat. I hate that you feel so puny… I wish I could switch places with you.”

I lucked out though and I never had to put any of my littles on nebulizers. I can’t even imagine watching my babies struggle to breathe to that degree.

This week Karina has been sending me videos on all our mamas trying their best to wrangle their newborns into plastic masks, as they wail away and struggle against them, because they don’t realize it will ultimately open up their airways.

Every single one of these mothers would switch places with their babies in a heartbeat too, I have no doubt.

They are so tender and loving as they try to take their kiddos pain away.

And it will go away.

This too shall pass.

With each video Karina sends me, it’s impossible not to see the connection between these tiny babies trying to catch their physical breath and the ability to give those we care for emotional and mental room to breathe.

This year we have hosted a slew of mothers who were either pregnant or newly postpartum, fleeing extreme violence and simply looking for safety. We had a mother whose husband died along their journey to that safety in the Darién Gap. We had another who was kidnapped for three months and never knew if she’d find safety ever again.

All of these women needed a safe space where they could finally just stop… and rest… and breathe.

Because breath is life.

So, whether it’s creating spaces for our moms to flourish, or making sure basic medical care is given to their babies to open up their airways, that’s what the Stellar Shelter is all about.

These are all life issues, whether on a physical level or more abstract emotional plane.

That is the work y’all are supporting.

And as we wrap up this stellar year at our shelter, we cannot thank you all enough for partnering with us to support Life - in all its forms.

If you’d like to join us in this effort, we cannot thank you enough: https://www.newwavefeminists.com/stellarshelter