Reproductive Justice as Climate Justice
Type: Virtual Panel
Day: 3/1/2022
Start Time: 11:20 AM
End Time: 12:40 PM
Theme: Climate Justice
Sponsor Group(s):
Black Geographies Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
LaToya Eaves
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Chairs(s):
LaToya Eaves,
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Description:
As a changing climate accelerates the reshaping of our world, climate justice advocates for those communities and people most impacted by climate change through compounding systems of oppression. Geographers interested in climate justice can center reproductive justice as a framework to understand the depth and breadth of climate change vulnerabilities and inequalities. Embedded in centuries of Black women's advocacy and activism, the concept of reproductive justice (RJ) appeared in 1994 by a group of Black women activists "to recognize the commonality of our experiences and, from the sharing and growing consciousness, to a politics that will change our lives and inevitably end our oppression.” As a framework, RJ elucidates attempts to restrict reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the right to live and parent in safe, healthy environments. RJ demonstrates how those restrictions, in turn, regulate and control communities, particularly within racialized and gendered geographies. With this understanding, the panel will explore the foundations of reproductive justice in geography. Panelists will engage with legacies of climate exposure, uneven development, and energy and resource inequalities that have disproportionately impacted Black and Indigenous communities globally. The panelists will also discuss histories of struggle against climate injustice by tracing human rights campaigns. We argue that by centering RJ, geographers can conduct climate justice research and advocacy that can yield anti-oppressive outcomes.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
Role | Participant |
Introduction | LaToya Eaves |
Panelist | LaToya Eaves |
Panelist | Nikki Luke |
Panelist | Danielle Purifoy |
Panelist | Bryttani Wooten |
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Reproductive Justice as Climate Justice
Description
Virtual Panel
Contact the Primary Organizer
LaToya Eaves - leaves1@utk.edu