Paperback Edition
ISBN: 9781558614376
Publication Date: 11-14-17

Foreword by Dorothy Roberts

Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding "reproductive rights" to include issues of environmental justice, incarceration, poverty, disability, and more, this crucial anthology explores the practical applications for activist thought migrating from the community into the academy.

Radical Reproductive Justice assembles two decades’ of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, creators of the human rights-based “reproductive justice” framework to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. Rooted in Black feminism and built on intersecting identities, this revolutionary framework asserts a woman's right to have children, to not have children, and to parent and provide for the children they have.

"The book is as revolutionary and revelatory as it is vast." —Rewire

"Gives [readers] theoretical and practical tools to understand how having control over when, if, and how to parent intersects with other issues, including environmental justice, poverty, and migration." —The Cut

"This book is intersectional and nuanced and contains brilliant writing about choices to have children, not to have children, privilege, disability, abortion, and more." —Book Riot

"Radical Reproductive Justice closes the theory/practice gap by placing the transforming principle of reproductive justice within the working knowledge of anyone who reads it. A game changer." —Dr. Willie Parker, author of Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice

"An essential read for anyone who cares about justice and political activism." —Rye Young, Executive Director, Third Wave Fund

“This timely anthology brings together theory, practice, and poetry to celebrate and expand the intergenerational struggle to attain reproductive justice.” —Jael Silliman, author of Recalling Jewish Calcutta

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