Get Educated
Education is a cornerstone of effective activism. This section works to unpack the complex and ever-evolving fight for reproductive rights. This is a place for curiosity, critical thinking, and empowerment through knowledge.
Focuses on the intersection of human rights, health care, and social equity and understanding what reproductive justice is and how it impacts daily lives.
Discusses the laws and policies that are reshaping and shape reproductive rights on local, national, and global levels and explores their repercussions.
Encompasses a range of information and resources to offer a toolkit for advocacy with ways to get involved and where to go for more information.
How Did We End Up Here?: A Brief History of Abortion Rights
From grassroots activism of the 20th century to the shifting legal landscapes that dictate access today, the history of abortion is complex and messy. “How Did We End Up Here?” offers a condensed look at key moments that shaped the discourse and legislation around reproductive freedom.
Want to learn more?
Check out some relevant literature below–more coming soon.
“Feminist Body Rhetoric in the #Unrulymob Texas, 2013”
Dana L. Cloud et a.l from Unruly Rhetorics: Protest, Persuasion, and Publics. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, pp. 27–44. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv75d8pr.5.
“Survival Stories: Feminist Historiographic Approaches to Chicana Rhetoric of Sterilization Abuse”
Jessica Enoch. Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies, edited by Lindal Buchanan and Kathleen Ryan, Parlor P, 2010, 182-200.
“Introduction”: Excerpt from Abortion & Life
Jennifer Baumgardner Persuasive Acts: Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century, editors Shari Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg, U of Pittsburgh P, 2020, pp.388-395.
“Reproductive Injustice and the “War on Women,” or An Ode to the Intersections”
Eesha Pandit. The Crunk Feminist Collection, editors Brittney C. Cooper, et al., The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2017, pp. 145-148.
Reproductive Justice, Eugenics, and Maternal Mortality
Mikki Kendall. Hood Feminism Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. Penguin Books, 2021.
Not Your Host Bodies 