Reproductive Justice

This section includes articles about the intersections of reproductive justice and other forms of justice, and essential texts about its history.

Our Bodies, Ourselves by bell hooks

This link will take you to a pdf within which we recommend reading chapter 5, a short 5 page section about reproductive justice situated during the American civil rights era using a Black, class-conscious feminist lens. Reading this taught us about how history truly repeats itself, and how the tensions relayed by hooks about early thought about abortions seems to mimic contemporary tensions as well.

Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights by Angela Davis

This link takes you to another pdf, go ahead and go to chapter 12 to learn specifically about reproductive rights. This chapter goes to depth even more into issues raised by the hooks chapter. Davis dives into the racist arguments used by pro-birth control advocates, anti-birth control advocates, as well as pro and anti abortion advocates. She uses empirical data to illustrate her claims in a way that is missing from the hook piece.

Boundaries and border wars: DES, technology and environmental justice by Julie Sze

This chapter discusses the lack of regulation on business leading to critical changes in the environment and ultimately how these business moves affect our bodies, particularly in gendered ways. The chapter brings up some interesting questions for us: could this assault on our bodies from forces beyond our control almost feel like sexual violence? does this call for an expansive definition of sexual harm? What other instances of climate change affect reproductive justice?

Applying an Intersectional Analysis to Reproductive Justice and Other Forms of Oppression: Collaborating Across Movements and Issues

If you have to choose one link only, this link takes you to a site that graciously has compiled several resources about intersections between other forms of oppression and reproductive justice including economic justice, anti-carceral justice, justice for HIV+ women, immigration justice, trans liberation, disability justice, religious freedom, voter suppression, and climate justice. If you click the link, scroll to the bottom to see the "previous" and "next" buttons to explore more resources that they have compiled.