Episode 6: Reproductive Justice - Creating a new reality through feminist knowledge building
In this episode, speakers Edem Ntumy (Reproductive Justice Initiative), Professor Emeritus Patricia Maguire (Feminist Trailblazers & Good Troublemakers Podcast), Dr Camilla Fitzsimons (Maynooth University) and host Elise Denis-Ramirez (Open University) meet to discuss reproductive justice in the context of participation and feminist knowledge creation.
Listen in on a thought-provoking intergenerational podcast about autonomy, reproductive resistance, and the importance of centring community knowledge. Our panellists draw from their experiences linking feminist research and activism while advocating for social change.
Recorded on Wednesday 21 June 2023 as a live podcast hosted by the Open University’s Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health Research Group.
This episode was produced by Elise Denis-Ramirez.
Links to resources:
Edem Barbara Ntumy
https://decolonisingcontraception.com/
Professor Emeritus Patricia Maguire
https://www.parfemtrailblazers.net/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3oWKMvXTjOrfzuO1bryd2n
Dr Camilla Fitzsimons
Digital Repository of Ireland where some of the raw data from research I carried out prior to Ireland’s referendum on abortion has been uploaded along with chapter 1 of my book Repealed. https://repository.dri.ie/catalog/2n506t51c
Elise Denis-Ramirez
https://www.open.ac.uk/people/ebdr2
Want to read more about Reproductive Justice? See here recommended sources from our speakers here:
https://www.sistersong.net/reproductive-justice
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520288201/reproductive-justice
Norwood, Carolette, Farrah Jacquez, Thembi Carr, Stef Murawsky, Key Beck, and Amy Tuttle. "Reproductive Justice, Public Black Feminism in Practice: A Reflection on Community-Based Participatory Research in Cincinnati." Societies 12, no. 1 (2022): 17.
Soto-Ponce, Belen, Manuel Garcia-Ramirez, and Lucía Jiménez. (2023) "Romani Girls Matter: Developing a Participatory Action Research Protocol for Reproductive Justice." In Healthcare, vol. 11, no. 5, p. 755. MDPI, 2023.
Wilson, K. (2018). For reproductive justice in an era of Gates and Modi: the violence of India's population policies. Feminist Review, 119(1), 89-105.
Sama Women’s Health & Surabhi Sharma, documentary (commercial surrogacy, India) – “Can we see the baby bump, please?’ https://samawomenshealth.in/can-we-see-the-baby-bump-please/
DAWN on their work on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including their groundbreaking work on Reproductive Rights and Population: Feminist Voices from the South produced for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in 1994. It placed SRHR firmly within development, questioning neoliberalism and neoconservatism.
Nandagiri, Rishita (2022) ‘I feel like some kind of namoona’: examining sterilisation in women's abortion trajectories in India. In: Boydell, Victoria and Dow, Katharine, (eds.) Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse: Expanding Reproductive Studies. Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture and Society. Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK, 29 - 47. ISBN 9781800717343
Nandagiri, Rishita (2021) What’s so troubling about ‘voluntary’ family planning anyway? A feminist perspective. Population Studies, 75 (S1). 221 - 234. ISSN 1477-4747 http://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2021.1996623 (OA)
Berro Pizzarossaa, Lucía and Nandagiri, Rishita (2021) Self-managed abortion: a constellation of actors, a cacophony of laws? Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 29 (1). ISSN 2641-0397 http://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2021.1899764 (OA)
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