About

Inspired by a collaboration with the CSUN Basic Needs Initiative, this project offers free and low-cost reproductive health resources to community members in and around the California State University, Northridge campus, with a geographic focus on the San Fernando Valley.

These resources range from free sanitary napkins and birth control to screenings and health services.

This is a public humanities project from ENGL 525SFE (Spring 2022), led by Danielle Spratt and Detrich Galloway.

What is reproductive justice?

Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger define “reproductive justice” as containing “three principles: 1) the right not to have a child; 2) the right to have a child; and 3) the right to parent children in safe and healthy environments” (9).

They continue, “Achieving this goal depends on access to specific, community-based resources including high-quality healthcare, housing, and education, a living wage, a healthy environment, and a safety net for times when these resources fail. Safe and dignified fertility management, childbirth, and parenting are impossible without these resources.”