The materials on this website were curated by the Steering Committee of the 2025 Reproductive Justice Futurisms Convening. The people, videos, articles, and links featued on the site represent just a few of the topics explored at the convening, and provide attendees with additional information about these topics to explore before, during, and after attending the Convening! This page is part of a living Learning Library. It contains a section on "Additional Topics of Significance and Consideration" where we will add links periodically.
By: Loretta J. Ross & Rickie Solinger
Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger put the lives and lived experience of women of color at the center of the book and use a human rights analysis to show how the discussion around reproductive justice differs significantly from the pro-choice/anti-abortion debates that have long dominated the headlines and mainstream political conflict. Arguing that reproductive justice is a political movement of reproductive rights and social justice, the authors illuminate, for example, the complex web of structural obstacles a low-income, physically disabled woman living in West Texas faces as she contemplates her sexual and reproductive intentions. In a period in which women’s reproductive lives are imperiled, Reproductive Justice provides an essential guide to understanding and mobilizing around women’s human rights in the twenty-first century.
Birthing Reproductive Justice: 150 Years of Images and Ideas Digital Exhibit
Lived Experiences Among Black Women
The marginalization and exploitation of birthing Black women's bodies
Forced sterilization
Enslavement
Rates of complication in hospital birth