017 - Thematic Session. Social Movements and the Politics of Reproductive Justice

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

How does considering the interactional effects of race, age, class, sexuality, and ability shift our understanding of reproduction?  Continuing political and legal attacks on reproductive rights have myriad effects and responses besides those most visible in the media. This panel will examine how the historically constraining legal and social movement emphasis on reproductive rights and health is shifting to a holistic reproductive justice, which draws on multiple social justice movements and centers intersecting inequalities.  Panelists will highlight various examples of communities innovatively challenging reproductive inequality and the meaning for the future of reproductive rights, health and justice.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Zakiya T. Luna, University of California-Santa Barbara

Presider

• Zakiya T. Luna, University of California-Santa Barbara

Panelists

• Emily S. Mann, University of South Carolina

• Sujatha Jesudason, University of California-San Francisco and CoreAlign

• Dorothy E. Roberts, University of Pennsylvania

• Zakiya T. Luna, University of California-Santa Barbara