Theorizing Reproductive In/Justice

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Reproductive Justice, a theoretical paradigm and activist praxis developed by Black feminist organizers, provides us with an essential means of understanding our world. In this course, students will learn to use the lens of reproductive justice to interrogate how some of our most pressing contemporary crises are rooted in long-standing histories of white supremacy and capitalism and are intimately related to reproduction and constraints against reproductive freedom. By taking up the RJ movement’s primary 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, this course welcomes junior scholars into an interdisciplinary space for thinking through the historical and continued role of the US and Canadian governments in controlling reproduction, and reproduction’s impact and reliance on seemingly disparate aspects of life.