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reproductive justice
[POSTPONED] Reproductive Injustice: A Salon Honoring Dána-Ain Davis
Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond, Cara Page, and Dorothy Roberts
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, finding that this problem is not explained by economic factors but ideas about race and reproduction with a deeper historical context rooted in the era of slavery.
Read MoreRed River Women’s Clinic
Released Jun 23, 2014
(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 12) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, Carly Crane '15 interviews 27-year-old Caitlin O'Connell, site coordinator of the Red River Women's Clinic, the only legal abortion provider in all of North Dakota. Caitlin shares with us the challenges of facing anti-abortion protestors and legislation, and how reproductive rights intersect with other economic developments in the state.
ListenRadical 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.
ListenNew Feminist Solutions: Social Justice Approaches to Ending Domestic Violence
Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sally MacNichol, Angela Moreno
Between 2011-2012, Sakhi for South Asian Women convened two meetings of grassroots organizers to address the challenges of building a broader anti-violence movement. These events explored the intersections between domestic violence and issues like immigration, transphobia, incarceration, and reproductive justice. While communities of color have always been disproportionately affected by such kinds of violence, they […]
Read MoreLife (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.
Read MoreA New Queer Agenda
Joseph N. DeFilippis, Lisa Duggan, Kenyon Farrow, and Richard Kim
With this issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, the Barnard Center for Research on Women celebrates our ongoing collaboration with Queers for Economic Justice. Through this partnership, we have been engaging activists, academics and organizers around a vision and practice of cross-issue organizing that sees gender and sex as central to issues like immigration, poverty, homelessness, gentrification, and drug use. “A New Queer Agenda” pushes beyond the vision of security and belonging offered through gay marriage to a broader politics of economic, political and sexual justice for all.
Read MoreWhat You Can Do to Stop the War Against Women
Senator Liz Krueger, Jessica Valenti, Joe Rollins, Jamia Wilson, and Amy Richards
There is a war against women raging across the country. Presidential candidates are speaking out in opposition to basic contraception. Anti-woman legislators around the country are trying to put more and more barriers between women and their reproductive rights. Wisconsin’s governor just pushed through a repeal of his state’s Equal Pay Enforcement Act. Even here […]
Read MoreLauren Porsch: Removing Barriers to Healthcare for Trans People
Excerpt from the discussion "Voices of a Women's Health Movement."
Read MoreVoices of a Women’s Health Movement
Panel discussion featuring Laura Eldridge ’01, Helen Lowery, Lauren Porsch ’01, Leonore Tiefer, and Irene Xanthoudakis ’01.
Read MoreVoices 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.
ListenVoices 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 […]
Read MorePreventing Violence, Promoting Justice
Alisa Del Tufo, Loretta J. Ross, and Karen Morgaine
For registration and additional information, please visit the conference website. Sakhi for South Asian Women exists to end violence against women. They unite survivors, communities, and institutions to eradicate domestic violence, working to create strong and healthy communities. Sakhi uses an integrated approach that combines support and empowerment through service delivery, community engagement, media advocacy, […]
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