We Are Pregnant with Freedom
eBook - PDF

We Are Pregnant with Freedom

Black Feminist Storytelling for Reproductive Justice

  1. 281 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

We Are Pregnant with Freedom

Black Feminist Storytelling for Reproductive Justice

About this book

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Situated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormick's lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black sexual and reproductive liberation through the storytelling work of those most marginalized in reproductive justice research and discourse. The book recounts McCormick's loss of twin sons to stillbirth, her near-fatal experience with preeclampsia, and her subsequent reproductive justice research and advocacy work with the Afiya Center, a Black-led reproductive justice organization in Texas. Its multidisciplinary narrative shatters the silences wrought by stigma and historical erasure, ultimately proposing a new grammar of reproductive justice that can serve the people as a vehicle for community building, healing, and bodily liberation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Gund imprint
  3. Subvention
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: Waterbreaking
  11. 1. Toward a Radical We: Decolonizing Sexual and Reproductive Health
  12. 2. Reproductive Justice: An American Grammar
  13. 3. Rememory: A Reproductive Justice Mixtape
  14. 4. Imagining Livable Black Futures
  15. 5. Abolition Medicine
  16. 6. Policing Black Birth
  17. Epilogue: You Won’t Break My Soul
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index