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Sakhi for South Asian Women
Released May 9, 2014
(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 11) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, we interview Caritas Doha of Sakhi for South Asian Women about her work to help young women who immigrated to the U.S. as children apply for employment authorization under a new program called DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Caritas explores the unique vulnerabilities experienced by women and children who are undocumented immigrants and survivors of violence.
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Martha Redbone, Still Saffire, Ajo, Olivia Harris, and Lady Bits
As part of their 25th anniversary, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG) presents Girls Rock! – free outdoor concert featuring: Martha Redbone Still Saffire from the Willie Mae Rock Camp Ajo Olivia Harris Lady Bits For more information and related events, visit IRWAG25.com.
Read MoreStates of Exception: Children’s Human Rights and the Humanities
Wendy S. Hesford
This year’s McIntyre lecturer, Wendy S. Hesford, integrates critical legal studies and feminist rhetorical criticism to examine the figure of the child as a limit condition to the liberal subject of human rights law. Through her analysis of contemporary representations of children living in varied states of political exception and social exclusion—stateless children, children born […]
Read MoreCritical Conceptions: Technology, Justice, and the Global Reproductive Market
Rebecca Jordan-Young
Contributors include Gwendolyn Beetham, Claudia Castañeda, The Center for Bioethics and Culture, Wendy Chavkin, Jeanne Flavin, Sarah Franklin, Ana María García, Faye Ginsburg, Michele Bratcher Goodwin, Rebecca Haimowitz, Anna Harrington, Judith Helfand, Sujatha Jesudason, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Jessaca Leinaweaver, Iris Lopez, Susan Markens, Carol Mason, Faith Pennick, Rayna Rapp, Catherine Sameh, Vaishali Sinha, Debora Spar, Kalindi Vora, Catherine Waldby, and Karen Winkler.
Read MoreReproductive Justice in Action
Rebecca Jordan-Young, Lucy Trainor, Janet Jakobsen
Reproductive justice is an inclusive framework for thinking about reproductive freedoms, holistic well-being and comprehensive justice. Organizing for reproductive justice encompasses a multiplicity of issues; the individuals and networks working in this model are just as diverse in their missions, constituencies, and methods of action. Reproductive Justice in Action is the result of a collaboration between the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Groundswell's Catalyst Fund, the New York Women's Foundation and seventeen of their grantee partners doing reproductive justice work in New York City. Seeking to explore the ways in which these seventeen organizations think about their mission and work, we jointly embarked on a participatory action research project in order to better understand how the organizations relate to (or feel limited by) the model and language of reproductive justice.
Read MoreJustice at the Intersections: Action for Reproductive and Economic Justice in NYC
Documentary featuring interviews with 16 organizations doing reproductive justice work in New York City. Directed by Tiona McClodden.
Read MoreCritical Intersections: Reproductive and Economic Justice
This conference, co-sponsored with the New York Women’s Foundation, will explore how reproductive justice and women’s economic security are inextricably linked and will highlight the work being done in these areas by 17 organizations here in New York. With the leadership predominantly of women of color and young people, these organizations focus on diverse issues […]
Read MoreChildren of Incarcerated Parents
Megan Sullivan, Tanya Krupat and Venezia Michalsen
Contributors include Ann Adalist-Estrin, asha bandele, Nell Bernstein, Stacey Bouchet, Creasie Finney Hairston, Denise Johnston, Tanya Krupat, Carrie Levy, Venezia Michalsen, Dee Ann Newell, Megan Sullivan, and Angie Vachio.
Read MoreLos Demonios Del Edén: Gender, Violence and Activism in Mexico
Lydia Cacho
With her 2005 book Los Demonios del Edén (Demons of Eden), author and human rights activist Lydia Cacho revealed the existence of organized sexual abuse of minors in Mexico. Following the publication of her book, she was subject to police harassment and became a symbol of a growing movement for greater freedom of the press. […]
Read MoreBoys and Girls in Post-Conflict Societies
Megan Callaghan, Abosede George, Jessaca Leinaweaver, and Nara Milanich
Long after formal peace treaties have been signed, war continues to shape social institutions and interactions. Young people who have grown up amid violent conflict often experience its lingering effects through the loss of family, estrangement from local communities, destruction of the physical environment, or the instability of the government. This panel takes an interdisciplinary […]
Read MoreMichele Goodwin: Remarks at The Scholar & Feminist Conference 2009
Full-length video of Michele Goodwin's remarks from "Marginality and Exclusivity in ART Practices," a panel discussion at The Scholar & Feminist Conference 2009, "The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life."
Read MoreSarah Franklin: Keynote Lecture from The Scholar & Feminist 2009
Recorded Feb 28, 2009
Sarah Franklin delivers the keynote address at the 2009 Scholar and Feminist Conference. Increased demand for assisted reproductive technology (ART) and transnational adoption has been propelled by a number of factors, including the development of new technologies and changes in familial form - such as childrearing in second or third marriages; lesbian, gay, and transgendered families; and delays in childbearing and subsequent difficulties in conception - that make ART helpful. Other relevant factors include environmental changes that have negatively affected fertility levels, new levels of transnational migration and interaction that have fueled awareness of babies available for and in need of adoption, and concerns about genetic diseases and disabilities. Effectively, the various imperatives and the desires, both cultural and personal, that the use of ART fosters and responds to, have created a "baby business" that is largely unregulated and that raises a number of important social and ethical questions. Do these new technologies place women and children at risk? How should we respond ethically to the ability of these technologies to test for genetic illnesses?
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