By: Mira Lora
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This Podcast: “Don’t Tell Us To Relax” is a reproductive justice focusing on intersectionality and sterilization within the black community. Loretta Ross gives a snippet of her story and leads us to a better understanding of intersectionality and the expanse of need for reproductive justice. Have a listen!
References
- Loretta Ross’ Voice of Feminism Project
- Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism
- Reproductive Oppression Against Black Women
- America’s Forgotten History of Forced Sterilization
- Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Global Prison Industrial Complex
- Kimberlé Crenshaw’s The Public Nature of Private Violence
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Script: Don’t Tell Us To Relax