Reproductive In/Justice

Catalog description

In this course, students will learn to use the lens of reproductive justice to interrogate the ways that 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 reproductive justice 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 a nuanced, 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 in North America. Ultimately, this course invites students to collaboratively consider the question: “Is (racial/economic/gender/disability/environmental) justice possible without reproductive justice?”