Mothership Connections

This chapter explores the relation between sovereignty, antiblackness, and the management of kinship. It includes an elaboration on the role of female reproductive capacity and rights in relation to the articulation of sovereignty. Furthermore, it examines the role of the control over Black kinship and the management of Black women’s (and women close to black) reproduction by way of various mechanisms. The chapter subsequently uncovers a radical critique emerging in the affirmation of female reproductive rights/choice as an opening of relations, in general, that is required for and demanded by Black lives.