Feminist and Anti-Racist Philosophies of Reproductive Justice

Full Tuition: $300 — Scholarship Options in Drop-Down Menu

Instructor: Dahiya | Five Weeks | Tuesdays July 18-August 15 | 6:00-8:00 PM ET | ONLINE

Since the repeal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, national cultural anxiety about access to abortion has skyrocketed as bans proliferate. Patients and doctors are at risk of criminal prosecution for accessing and providing reproductive care while heated legal battles over the banning of abortion pills are currently underway. Clinics are shutting down across the country, and healthcare workers are leaving this field of care in troubling numbers. Why are reproductive rights still an embroiled and controversial issue in the U.S.? This seminar will study the concept of reproduction through a feminist and anti-racist lens. We will examine how abortion bans and the restriction of reproductive care impact those who are already the most vulnerable in our society. We will think about how our current cultural discourse emphasizes individual choice around abortion, and how that language elides important racial politics. We will consider how alternative frameworks, like reproductive justice, might help enable liberation for not only white, but also brown and Black women and indeed all peoples. Using landmark works in feminist studies, film, and fiction, we will ask ourselves how race, gender, and class structure the politics of reproduction.

The U.S.’s history of reproduction is about the history of birth control and access to safe abortion. But it is also a history of eugenics and population control, as well as a history of refusing to give life to what was considered enslaved property. Complementing and complicating popular cultural ideas about birth and life, in this course, we will study the concept of reproduction through the intersecting axes of race, class, & gender.

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