Reproductive Justice
These are considered the 3 central tenets of reproductive justice philosophy:
1. The right to have a child;
2. The right to not have a child;
3??
3. The right to parent that child in safe and healthy environments.
The year the Page Act was passed, prohibiting immigration to the US for unmarried Chinese women.
_______, ______. (2008). Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
Disability Justice
In what year was the Polio vaccine successfully demonstrated? Hint: It's also the title of a King Princess song.
1950
In this state (then a colony), the law known as Partus Sequitur Ventrem was passed, delineating all children of white enslavers and enslaved Black women to follow the legal and racial status of the mom, not the father.
The Virginia Colony
A watershed moment in the field of medicine, in _____ the American Medical Association was founded.
1847
Brenda Rodriguez Lopez (YEAR?). "Undocumented People Seeking an Abortion After Roe Face Double the Legal Risk," for Teen Vogue.
2022
Foucault is a big fan of this framework (though he is not the originator of the term)
Biopolitics
True or False?
Susan B. Anthony was a progressive activist who championed integration, racial equality, and miscegenation in tandem with reproductive freedom.
False.
As part of nationwide efforts to colonize and eradicate Native populations, these institutions were opened for the coerced enrollment, re-education, and reformation of Indigenous children.
Residential Schools
A "cusp baby" between Pisces and Aquarius, Audre Lorde was born on February 18th of ______, the same year that President FDR unveiled his New Deal to resuscitate the nation out of the Great Depression.
1934
From where is the following excerpt sourced?
"There's a lot worse things to be [than campaign canvassers. You could be a dentist."
Kayley DeLong (2024)
Born from Southern activists, this movement and framework centers the importance of confronting intergenerational trauma, community collaboration, and (re)connection to ancestral lineages in pursuit of health equity.
The healing justice movement.
In a clever turn of phrase, this influential popstar sings the following verse in her 2013 hit:
"I sneezed on the beat and the beat got sicker."
Beyoncé
Eugenics
Banning the transferral of materials about or directly aiding abortion and contraception, the Comstock Law was officially passed in _______.
1873
The Disability Justice Collective wrote "________," establishing the guiding ideas behind their movement.
"The Ten Principles of Disability Justice."
Puar offers this analytic as a critique of "the biopolitics of disability," arguing that the construction of disability in the west obscures the occurrence of debility in the global south.
The biopolitics of debility.
Founded in 1987 to organize and respond to the AIDS epidemic, this queer-led organization's name is entirely an acronym, while also being a daring demand.
An iconic leader of the Civil Rights Movement and Mississippi sharecropper, this woman was a victim of nonconsensual sterilization during a visit to the doctor for a completely unrelated procedure, making her vehemently opposed to the dispersal of contraception and abortion care in Black communities.
The Indian Health Services, a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been chronically underfunded since its founding in _____.
1955.
Though she was not the first scholar to write about this framework and political strategy, Kimberlé Crenshaw is credited with coining the term for it, "intersectionality." In what academic field did she ground her theorization in (and get published)?
Law/Legal Studies
Though Alexander Fleming discovered it years earlier, it was a woman - Dorothy Crowfoot - who discovered its chemical structure in 1945, paving the way for the medicine to be studied and for other variations to be formulated.
Penicillin.