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Reproductive Injustice Symposium

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James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College
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  • Add to Calendar 2023-10-20 12:00:00 2023-10-20 18:00:00 Reproductive Injustice Symposium This symposium is a celebration of the forthcoming issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online that foregrounds the importance of Black women's maternal health and obstetric racism, taking Dána-Ain Davis' recent book Reproductive Injustice (NYU Press, 2019) as its starting point. At the symposium, as in the journal issue, we aim to think expansively about reproduction, race, gender, sexuality, and personal autonomy. The symposium will open with a keynote by Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022) whose work on reproduction, the Black body, and anti-Black racism has powerfully shaped the landscape of scholarship and organizing. The keynote will be followed by a series of simultaneous workshops by Sister Song, Collective Power, the Reproductive Justice Collective, and the Design Center at Barnard College. To close the symposium, scholars and activists Amaryah Armstrong, Ash Williams, Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond Leonard, and moderator Beck Jordan-Young will join on a panel to share some of the important takeaways from their research and organizing work, address the current moment of reproductive in/justice in the United States, and offer ways that we can collectively move forward.  ATTEND    Schedule 12:00 p.m.: Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.: Keynote by Dorothy Roberts 2:15 - 3:30 p.m.: Simultaneous workshops with Sister Song, Collective Power, the Reproductive Justice Collective, and the Design Center at Barnard College 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.: Coffee break 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.: Panel discussion with Amaryah Armstrong, Ash Williams, Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond Leonard, and moderator Beck Jordan-Young 5:30 p.m.: Closing remarks   Accessibility ASL Interpretation will be provided. For additional accessibility needs please email skreitzb@barnard.edu. This is an in-person event, free and open to all. Please review our COVID safety guidelines. Registration is preferred.   Image credit Jessie T. Pettway, "'Log Cabin' Variation Tied In A Grid Pattern," Collection of Souls Grown Deep Foundation   Support This symposium is made possible in part by a Barnard Reproductive Health Grant supported by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Health & Wellness, and the Office of the Provost, and is co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Barnard College.    James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College Barnard College barnard-admin@digitalpulp.com America/New_York public
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This symposium is a celebration of the forthcoming issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online that foregrounds the importance of Black women's maternal health and obstetric racism, taking Dána-Ain Davis' recent book Reproductive Injustice (NYU Press, 2019) as its starting point. At the symposium, as in the journal issue, we aim to think expansively about reproduction, race, gender, sexuality, and personal autonomy. The symposium will open with a keynote by Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022) whose work on reproduction, the Black body, and anti-Black racism has powerfully shaped the landscape of scholarship and organizing. The keynote will be followed by a series of simultaneous workshops by Sister Song, Collective Power, the Reproductive Justice Collective, and the Design Center at Barnard College. To close the symposium, scholars and activists Amaryah Armstrong, Ash Williams, Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond Leonard, and moderator Beck Jordan-Young will join on a panel to share some of the important takeaways from their research and organizing work, address the current moment of reproductive in/justice in the United States, and offer ways that we can collectively move forward. 

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Schedule

12:00 p.m.: Lunch

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.: Keynote by Dorothy Roberts

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.: Simultaneous workshops with Sister Song, Collective Power, the Reproductive Justice Collective, and the Design Center at Barnard College

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.: Coffee break

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.: Panel discussion with Amaryah Armstrong, Ash Williams, Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond Leonard, and moderator Beck Jordan-Young

5:30 p.m.: Closing remarks

 

Accessibility

ASL Interpretation will be provided. For additional accessibility needs please email skreitzb@barnard.edu.

This is an in-person event, free and open to all. Please review our COVID safety guidelines. Registration is preferred.

 

Image credit

Jessie T. Pettway, "'Log Cabin' Variation Tied In A Grid Pattern," Collection of Souls Grown Deep Foundation

 

Support

This symposium is made possible in part by a Barnard Reproductive Health Grant supported by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Health & Wellness, and the Office of the Provost, and is co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Barnard College. 

 

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