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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 42–65.
Published: 01 March 2010
... a human rights framework. Dubbing itself “the movement for reproductive justice,” this coalition connects reproductive rights to other social justice issues such as economic justice, education, immigrant rights, environmental justice, sexual right, and globalization, and believes that this new framework...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 166–188.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Jallicia Jolly Abstract This essay proposes transnational reproductive justice as a useful approach to the liberation of multiply marginalized women. I center the systematic terror and denigration of women of color by various institutions, practices, and policies in order to demonstrate why we need...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 340–362.
Published: 01 December 2020
... by using a human rights framework. Dubbing itself “the movement for reproductive justice,” this coalition connects reproductive rights to other social justice issues such as economic justice, education, immigrant rights, environmental justice, sexual rights, and globalization, and believes that this new...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 94–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and broad vision of black women’s leadership in what has become a women-of-color–led human rights movement for reproductive justice today. Copyright © 2019 Joyce C. Follet 2019 contraception midwife/midwives/midwifery Negro Project reproduction reproductive justice From the colonial era...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 308–325.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Sara C. Flowers Abstract Historically, Black women have contributed to the foundations of medical research, gynecology, sexuality education, and sexual and reproductive justice, and continue to do so today. However, the intersections of race- and gender-based oppression have repeatedly erased...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 263–294.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... Adopting the reproductive justice framework as a decolonial tool, the article asserts that African Indigenous birthing knowledge is simultaneously valid and valuable for holistic approaches to maternal health. 4 Traditional birth attendants as a term originates from the World Health Organization’s...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): vii–xvii.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and reproductive justice. In "From Slaveryto Jane Crow to Say Her Name: An Intersectional Examination of Black Women and Punishment," Nishaun Battle explores the ongoing movement that has been happening around the country since 2012 exploring the question of whether anyone cares for the lives and experiences...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 548–558.
Published: 01 December 2020
... outlined in the first section, the lesson plans in #BlackGirlFeminism expand the lens of Black feminist thought to discuss issues as varied as the prison industrial complex and reproductive justice. In “From Slavery to Jane Crow to Say Her Name: An Intersectional Examination of Black Women and Punishment...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... children are killed by police incur harm at another level. Others have theorized police violence against Black children as being an act of reproductive injustice (Rogers 2015 ). According to SisterSong, a national reproductive justice collective, reproductive justice encompasses not only the right...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2010
... scholarship and activism. An issue that has vexed reproductive activists of color is the fact that the discourse around "choice" has been expressed through the classic liberal framework ofindividualism and privacy. In the essay, "What is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 236–264.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Loretta . 2017 . “ Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism .” Souls 19 , no. 3 : 286 – 314 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2017.1389634 . Ross Loretta , Roberts Lynn , Derkas Erika , Peoples Whitney , and Bridgewater Pamela . 2017 . Radical...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2019
... record of women of color working toward reproductive justice, class justice, and indigenous sovereignty movements in the United States. Thus, “Making Democracy Real” not only narrates a history of Black women’s organizing—from access to contraception and reproductive health more broadly...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
... misogynist and racist violence to promote the group’s position on issues such as reproductive justice, transphobia, and feminicide during more conventional protest actions, La Cole subverts cultural norms using culturally appropriate vehicles. The polyvocality historically required to effectively demand...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 510–522.
Published: 01 October 2024
... College 2024 birthing justice reproductive justice women’s studies It was widely believed by whites that slave women gave birth more easily and quickly than white women, and thus needed less attention during pregnancy and labor. —Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman? In May 1934 my...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 189–203.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the largest multiracial women's network in the country. Ross is the co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice. Her oral interview is also featured in the Voices Project. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 13, no. 2 (2016): 189-203. Copyright © 2016 Smith...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., transnationalism 15 , no. 1 : 137 – 65 . Price Kimala . 2010 . “ What is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm .” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 10 , no. 2 : 42 – 65 . Rajgopal Shoba Sharad . 2010 . “ ‘The Daughter...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 253–259.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the organization forward in its mission to achieve health equity and reproductive justice for Black women. LINDA GOLER BLOUNT THE SECRET To BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH 259 ...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
... a pattern and practice of extreme neglect of women’s reproductive health in prisons. 10 Theresa Lopez was a client of Justice Now who was granted compassionate release a few days before she died. 11 Ms. Rodriquez was a client of Justice Now. Works Cited ABC News . 1999 . Crime...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2001
... recording women prisoners' oral histories, Davara Campbell described the politics of reproductive health in prisons: In the 1970s I was suffering severe menstrual cramps and a tilted uterus. As a young woman in the criminal justice system serving a life sentence complicated by medical female "disorders...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 306–331.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Nasha Mohamed; Sutapa Chattopadhyay; Levi Gahman Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of feminist development justice, a transformative framework designed to reduce global inequalities that is being advanced by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD...