Sexual and Reproductive Justice Resources
Compiled by the NYC Health Department and Sexual and Reproductive Justice Community Engagement Group For more information, search “SRJ” at nyc.gov.
Introductory
1. Sexual and Reproductive Justice Video (4 minutes) 2. Reproductive Health… Rights… Justice… How Do They Compare? (PDF) 3. Reproductive Justice and Public Health Webinar (60 minutes) Features Monica Simpson, Sister Song Executive Director, and Lynn Roberts, Assistant Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences at The City University of New York. Webinar was hosted by CityMatCH's Reproductive Justice Ad Hoc Group.
Foundational Reading
4. SisterSong What is Reproductive Justice?
5. Forward Together A New Vision for Advancing our Movement for Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, and Reproductive Justice Resources for strengthening the reproductive justice movement The EMERJ Reproductive Justice Lens Toolkit Reproductive Justice Media Reference Guide
6. Trust Black Women Understanding Reproductive Justice by Loretta Ross We Always Resist: Trust Black Women (24 min video)
7. Theory of Intersectionality Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw When Multiplication Doesn’t Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm by Angie Marie-Hancock
Other Web Links
1. Association of Reproductive Health Professionals A Call to Incorporate a Reproductive Justice Agenda into Reproductive Health Clinical Practice and Policy
2. Black Women’s Health Imperative Pressing health issues affecting black women and girls
3. Center for Reproductive Rights Black Mamas Matter: A Toolkit for Advancing the Human Right to Safe and Respectful Maternal Health Care
4. Core Align Generative Fellowship
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5. Groundswell Reproductive Justice Fund
6. If/When/How: National network of law students and legal professionals Reproductive Justice in the Prison System Issue Brief
7. National Advocates for Pregnant Women Abortion and Contraception Restrictions
8. National Women’s Law Center If You Really Care about LGBT Rights, You Should Care about Reproductive Justice! If You Really Care About Criminal Justice, You Should Care About Reproductive Justice?
9. Native Youth Sexual Health Network Environmental Violence and Reproductive Justice
10. Pro-Choice Public Education Project Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice Glossary
11. Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Policy work in access to abortion care, contraception, and sexuality education
12. Reproductive Justice Syllabi For individuals in and outside of traditional academic institutions; A Class Project of WS 5903: Birthing Justice: Women of Color, Reproductive Justice, and the Making of Freedom taught by Dr. Whitney Peoples, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Multicultural Women's & Gender, Texas Woman's University • Teen Motherhood • Access to Justice: an Experiential Learning Syllabus • Sexuality Education for Reproductive Justice • Choice: A Fallacy • Reproductive Justice in Black Feminist Art • Midwifery & Reproductive Justice • Incarcerated Motherhood 13. Reproaction Direct action group forming to increase access to abortion and advance reproductive justice
14. Rewire News on reproductive and sexual health, rights and justice
15. SisterSong and National Women’s Health Network Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Statement of Principles
16. Third Wave Foundation Reproductive Justice Network
17. Unitarian Universalist Women & Religion Reproductive Justice Resources
18. Western States Center Reproductive Justice 101: A Select History (interactive timeline)
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Books
1. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
2. Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice By Dr. Willie Parker
3. Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization in the United States edited by Anannya Bhattacharjee and Jael Silliman
4. Reproductive Justice: An Introduction By Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger
5. Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization by Khiara M. Bridges
6. Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross and Elena Gutierrez
7. Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement by Jennifer Nelson
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