the incite blog has a great article: black women redefining agency, organizing for reproductive justice
I think it’s interesting that we have to make a case for black women’s agency. How do we describe an agency that is exercised on a terrain of political conditions designed to dehumanize and undermine us? As it relates to reproductive rights organizing, is the mainstream pro-choice framework useful when the available options from which black women can “choose” often reinforce punitive reproductive policies that threaten black womens’ bodies, reproduction, and lives?
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