The extraordinary @angelicaross.com taking the stage at #JusticeNow2024!
"When we get to this technology that is supposed to 'recognize' what is a woman..well my voice and Whoopi Goldberg's is about at the same range. Some of us are tall or broad shouldered, whether we're trans or not."
Prisons as a Tool for Reproductive oppression: Shackling during childbirth, child taken, lack of access to fertility treatment, children taken away when incarcerated, binaries, limits to visits, mail, and calls with family, prohibits sex, conjugal visits rare, limited restorative possibilities, family policing, family separation, showers--restrictions, lack of privacy, gender-affirming care, self-expression, placement, hormones, surgery
We had a great time talking with people at our sessionthis morning at #JusticeNow2024 on #ReproJustice advocacy across #prison walls! We shared analysis from our inside members and talked about ways people inside and outside can collaborate for reproductive justice.
ARC is at #JusticeNow2024 with Spark Reproductive Justice! We'll be presenting tomorrow morning on building for #ReproJustice across prison walls, featuring powerful words from Erica Harris on incarceration and eugenics. For now...settling in for Queering RJ with this amazing group of people.