INTRODUCTION
Overview of Reproductive Justice
Origin and Definition of Reproductive Justice
Impact of Reproductive Justice
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Toni Bond Leonard/Loretta Ross, Laying the Foundation for the
Reproductive Justice Movement
Kalpana Krishnamurthy/Rachael Strickler, An RJ Timeline: Handouts
and/or Pull-out chart
Rachael Strickler/Monica Simpson, A SisterSong History
(Herstory)
Lynn Roberts, On Becoming a Mother in Four Movements: An
Intergenerational View through a Reproductive Justice Lens
Stephanie Sellers, Iroquoian Women and Reproductive Justice:
Historic Empowerment
Judy A. M. Scully, Eugenics, Women of Color and Reproductive
Health: The Saga Continues
Deleso Alford Washington, Framing Her-story: Black Women and the
Development of the Medical Specialty of Gynecology in the United
States
THEORY
Marlene Gerber Fried, 10 Reasons to Rethink Reproductive
“Choice”
Loretta Ross, Conceptualizing Reproductive Justice Theory: A
Manifesto for Activism
Andrea Smith, Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and
Reproductive Justice
Rickie Solinger, Picturing Reproductive Justice: The “Beggars and
Choosers” Exhibition Challenges the Welfare Queen and other 20th
Century Ideas about Maternal Legitimacy and Illegitimacy
Beverly Juan Thompson, “Centering” Reproductive Justice:
Transitioning from Abortion Rights to Social Justice
Erika Derkas/Rachael Strickler, “Retrofitting Choice: White Women
and Reproductive Justice
POLICY, PRACTICE & ACTIVISM
Jill Adams, Reproductive Justice Revolution for Law Students
Pamela Bridgewater - Transforming Silence: The Personal, Political
and Pedagogical Prism of
Abortion Narrative
Erika Derkas - Embracing Sex Work’s Complexity: The Anatomy of
Global Organizing
Dazon Dixon Diallo, HIV Prevention and Reproductive Justice: A
Framework for Saving Women’s Lives
Melissa L. Gilliam, Amy Neustadt, and Rivka Gordon, Reproductive
Justice and Clinical Practice
Julie Grigsby, We Were All Slaves Once: Post-Traumatic Slave
Syndrome and Reproductive Justice Organizing in Los Angeles
La’Tasha Mayes, Our Civic Engagement Agenda for Reproductive
Justice
Benita Miller, Mothering While Poor: Utilizing the Reproductive
Justice Framework to Build the Capacities of Young Mothers
Anna Ochoa O’Leary/William Paul Simmons, Reproductive Justice and
Resistance at U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Joshua Price, Incarceration and Natal Alienation
Diana Romero and Angenor Medina, The Welfare Family Cap:
Reproductive Rights, Control and Poverty Prevention
Loretta Ross: Trust Black Women: Eugenics Through Billboards
Rachel Roth, “She Doesn’t Deserve to be Treated Like This”:
Reproductive Injustice in the U.S. Prison System
Seema Sandamana, Mandating Gardasil for Young Girls in the D.C.
Public School System
Judith A.M. Scully, Quinacrine Sterilizations: The “Choice” that
Isn’t
Alice Skenadore/Erika Derkas, Wise Women’s Gathering Place:
Indigenous/Abstinence Model of Teen Pregnancy Prevention
FRESH VOICES, NEW DIRECTIONS
Jamarah Amani, Birth Justice: These Are Our Rights as Mothers
Sophia Arrendondo, Jessica Far, Irene Lara, & Enrique Rodriguez –
Entering Panocha~ A Borderlands Passageway
Mary Krane Derr, Card-Carrying Marchers and Sister Travelers:
Pro-life Feminists and the Reproductive Justice Movement
(deceased)
Lucia Leandro Gimeno, The Reluctant RJ Organizers: Trans Issues and
Reproductive Justice
Dheeshana S. Jayasundara, Reproductive Rights or Reproductive
Justice for Reproductive Well-being
Sujatha Jesudason and Emily Galpern, Fresh Voices, Different
Perspectives: Ensuring Just Uses of Human Genetic Technologies
Laura Jimenez, Kierra Johnson and Cara Page, Beyond the Trees:
Stories and Strategies of Environmental and Reproductive
Justice
Katie O’Connell, Disability Rights and Reproductive Justice
Cara Page, Lisa Lusero and Mia Mingus, Love Letters to the Queer
Liberation and Reproductive Justice Movement(s)
Amanda Persad, Mothers and Martyrs: Mothers and Sacrifice
Jeanine Kamilah Valrie, Punishment in Reproductive Autonomy: U.S.
Drug Policies and their Effects on Black Women
Aaronette White, Childless by Choice: Tubes Tied Truly Child-Free
At Last!
Human and women's rights activist Loretta Ross co-founded
and served as National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color
Reproductive Justice Collective, a network that organizes women of
color in the reproductive justice movement. In fact, Ross is one of
the creators of the term "Reproductive Justice," which envelops
human rights and social justice into one movement. In 2004, Ross
served as National Co-Director of the March for Women’s Lives in
Washington DC. It became the largest protest march in US history
with more than one million participants. Ross is the co-author of
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice
and author of The Color of Choice” chapter in Incite! Women of
Color Against Violence published in 2006. She has also written
extensively on the history of African American women and
reproductive justice activism.
Lynn Roberts has a BS in human development from Howard
University and a PhD in Human Services Studies from Cornell
University. The City University of New York has been her academic
home since 1995, and she is currently assistant professor in the
department of Community Health and Social Sciences at the Graduate
School of Public Health & Health Policy. Prior to joining CUNY, she
oversaw the development, implementation and evaluation of several
prevention programs for women and youth in NYC. She has also served
on the board of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice
Collective. Her current activism and scholarship examine the
intersections of race, class and gender in adolescent dating
relationships, juvenile justice and reproductive health policies;
as well as the impact of models of collaborative inquiry and
teaching on civic and political engagement.
Erika Derkas is a professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies
at New Mexico Highlands University and is an active researcher in
the area of reproductive justice, particularly, international sex
worker organizing, population control, and sterilization abuse
among poor women and women of color. She is currently the
co-director of the Women’s Studies program and the Women’s Center
at Highlands University and has been involved in feminist
organizing for numerous years. Her research has taken her from New
Zealand to study organizing efforts to decriminalize sex work to
Palestine where she is exploring ethnic identity formation among
youth, African Palestinians, and women in higher education.
Whitney Peoples is currently visiting assistant professor in
the department of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas
Woman’s University. She received her BA from Agnes Scott College,
her MA from the University of Cincinnati, and her PhD from Emory
University in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her work has
been published in books such as What’s the Big Idea? Feminist
Perspectives on Advertising (Lexington Books 2017); A History of
African American Autobiography (Cambridge University Press 2017);
and Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s
Productions (Palgrave MacMillan 2014). She has also published
articles in the Journal of College Science Teaching and
Meridians.
Pamela Bridgewater was an activist lawyer and legal scholar
specializing in issues related to reproduction, sexuality,
identity, poverty and women's health. She received her JD from
Florida State University, and participated in the US Supreme Court
case Judy Madsen et al. v. Women's Health Center Inc. Aware Woman
Center for Choice, Inc. She went on to obtain an LL.M from the
University of Wisconsin Law School, and while in Wisconsin, she
developed a lifelong scholarly interest in the relationship between
reproductive freedom and black emancipation. As a lawyer, Pamela
provided legal defense of reproductive health care clinics, service
providers and activists, and also provided pro bono legal service
and consultation on matters such as estate planning for poor people
and people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as legal services for
peace activists and activists within the fair trade and
globalization movements. She taught as professor at Northeastern
University’s School of Law and at American University's Washington
College of Law. She passed away in 2014.
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