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‘Lady Parts Justice League’ Descends On NC With Comic Catharsis

The Lady Parts Justice League is a collective of comedians touring the country using stand-up, sketch, and multimedia comedy to bring light to reproductive jusice issues.
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Hundreds of thousands of American womenterminate pregnancies each year. But in the past decade, state governments around the country have enacted a series of laws that reproductive justice advocates argue impede women's access to safe, legal abortion.

The Lady Parts Justice League (LPJL) is a group of successful comics who use stand-up, sketch, and multimedia comedy to start conversations about reproductive justice. The League performs its show, “You Should Smile More and Other Manspirational Observations” at The Cat's Cradle inCarrborotonight at 8 p.m.

Host Frank Stasio previews the performance with LizzWinstead, creator of LPJL and co-founder of The Daily Show, and standup-comic JoyelleJohnson. 

Here's one of their spoof videos made about Louisiana:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vbqR2969d8

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Anita Rao
Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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