Sex, Pleasure, and Justice: Reproductive Utopias

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While the US recognizes young people for achievements in music, sports, and technology, their contributions to politics—especially those creating a more just nation—are often downplayed. Despite significant innovations for justice in the 20th and 21st centuries led by those under 30 to destroy Jim Crow, legalize contraception, and stop police brutality, we do not have great documentation of these youth leaders. Today's reproductive justice activists advocate for decolonizing sexuality and providing accurate, stigma-free care. Students in this course will use oral history and archival research to document how activists drive innovations in reproductive justice, exploring campaigns against forced sterilization, for gender affirming care, and access to both birth justice and abortion care.