[POSTPONED] Reproductive Injustice: A Salon Honoring Dána-Ain Davis
UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO FALL 2020. DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Dána-Ain Davis’s new book Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU 2019) is a prescient investigation into the high rates of premature birth among Black women, tracing this problem to slavery and its afterlives. A deep study undoing dangerous misconceptions with life or death consequences, this book calls for an end to medical racism and support for practices that center the autonomy of Black women. Joining Davis will be reproductive justice experts, organizers, and scholars Toni Bond, Cara Page, and Dorothy Roberts.
About the Speakers
Toni Bond, PhD, is a womanist scholar and ethicist with a doctorate in religion, ethics, and society from Claremont School of Theology in California. She is one of the founding mothers of the reproductive justice movement and has worked in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements for the past 29 years.
Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies, Queens College, CUNY and Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Center, CUNY.
Cara Page is a Black Feminist Queer cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer. Her current project, Changing Frequencies, imagines a world free of experimentation and policing of biology and genetic materials of Black/POC, Indigenous, migrant communities, people with disabilities, LGBTSTGNCQI, sex workers and working class communities, and others surveilled, targeted, pathologized and exploited as an extension of state control and violence through the Medical Industrial Complex.
Dorothy Roberts is George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
ACCESSIBILITY
ASL interpretation will be available. The venue is mobility accessible.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is preferred, not required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis.
Please note: BCRW is following the rapidly evolving circumstances surrounding the Coronavirus. In the event that this salon cannot be held in person, we are working on plans to host an online event at the scheduled time. Updates and information on how to tune in will be provided.