Dare to Use the F-Word
Feb 3, 2014

Radical Doulas

Released Feb 3, 2014

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 9) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, we speak with Miriam Zoila Pérez, one of the founders of The Doula Project and the author of The Radical Doula Guide. She discusses her work supporting individuals through pregnancy, birth, abortion, and miscarriage.

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activism, class, gender, health, parenting, pregnancy, race, reproductive justice

Scholar and Feminist Online: 11.3
Summer 2013

Life (Un)Ltd: Feminism, Bioscience, Race

Rachel C. Lee

Like the symposium, this special issue foregrounds scholarship at the intersections of science and technology studies, feminist and queer studies, and race and postcolonial studies. The authors explore key questions emerging from the intensive biotechnological management of life that marks our age. Exploring the ways in which certain bodies and lands become, as they have for many centuries, the extractable material for scientific “discovery,” the authors make questions of gender, sexuality, and reproduction central to their queries.

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biology, class, economic justice, gender, health, history, human rights, labor, performance, pregnancy, queer, race, reproductive justice, reproductive technology, science, sexuality, technology, transgender, transnational, violence

BCRW
Sep 27, 2012 | 12:00PM

A Global History of the Paternity Test

Nara Milanich

For millennia, Western legal tradition relied on the assumption “pater semper incertus est” (“the father is always uncertain”). But beginning in the early twentieth century, scientists began a concerted quest for a biological marker of paternity that could unambiguously link a child to his or her progenitor. Prior to the advent of DNA testing, scientists […]

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biology, history, pregnancy, reproductive technology

Lauren Porsch: Removing Barriers to Healthcare for Trans People

Excerpt from the discussion "Voices of a Women's Health Movement."

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activism, gender, health, history, policy, pregnancy, queer, reproductive justice, sexuality, transgender

Voices of a Women’s Health Movement

Panel discussion featuring Laura Eldridge ’01, Helen Lowery, Lauren Porsch ’01, Leonore Tiefer, and Irene Xanthoudakis ’01.

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activism, gender, health, history, policy, pregnancy, reproductive justice, sexuality

2012
Feb 15, 2012

Voices of a Women’s Health Movement

Recorded Feb 15, 2012

The recently published anthology Voices of A Women's Health Movement (Seven Stories Press, 2012), co-edited by women's health advocate Barbara Seaman (1935-2008) and her longtime collaborator Laura Eldridge, brings together an essential collection of essays, interviews, and commentary by leading activists, writers, doctors and sociologists on topics ranging across reproductive rights, sex and orgasm, activism, motherhood, and birth control. In this panel discussion, some of the book's contributors discuss the rich history of this movement and its continued significance in struggles for reproductive health today. Panelists include Laura Eldridge '01, Helen Lowery, Lauren Porsch '01, Leonore Tiefer, and Irene Xanthoudakis '01.

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activism, gender, health, history, policy, pregnancy, reproductive justice, sexuality

James Room
Feb 15, 2012 | 6:30PM

Voices of a Women’s Health Movement

Laura Eldridge ’01, Helen Lowery, Lauren Porsch ’01, Leonore Tiefer, and Irene Xanthoudakis ’01

Science journalist Barbara Seaman (1935-2008) spent the last forty years of her life on the front lines as a women’s health advocate. Throughout her career, she was also a tireless supporter of other women’s voices. The recently published anthology Voices of a Women’s Health Movement, co-edited by Seaman and her long-time collaborator, Laura Eldridge, brings […]

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activism, gender, health, history, policy, pregnancy, reproductive justice, sexuality

Scholar and Feminist Online: 9.1-9.2
Fall 2010/Spring 2011

Critical 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.

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activism, africana, arts, biology, children, class, disability, environment, film, health, intersectionality, latina, media, parenting, policy, pregnancy, prisons, queer, race, reproductive technology, scholar & feminist, science, technology, transgender, transnational

New Feminist Solutions: Volume 6
April 2011

Reproductive 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.

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activism, africana, childcare, children, class, domestic work, economic justice, environment, family, gender, health, immigration, intersectionality, latina, parenting, pregnancy, prisons, race, reproductive justice, transgender, violence

Justice 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.

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activism, africana, childcare, children, class, domestic work, economic justice, environment, family, gender, health, immigration, intersectionality, latina, parenting, pregnancy, prisons, race, reproductive justice, transgender, violence

Registration in The Diana Center Lobby
Sep 22, 2010 | 9:00AM

Critical 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 […]

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activism, africana, childcare, children, class, domestic work, economic justice, environment, family, gender, health, immigration, intersectionality, latina, parenting, pregnancy, prisons, race, reproductive justice, transgender, violence

Sulzberger Parlor
Mar 3, 2010 | 6:30PM

Reproductive Justice in Action

Aisha Domingue, Mary Mahoney, Lauren Mitchell, and Miriam Pérez

This panel will feature a group of reproductive justice activists and birth doulas who work across the spectrum of pregnancy, birth, and women’s health, connecting the traditional reproductive rights movement with new social justice activism that considers the complete physical, political, and economic well-being of girls and women. Birth doulas, as trained sources of physical, […]

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activism, health, parenting, pregnancy, reproductive justice, sex, sexuality