Roundtable: Queering Reproductive Justice

Join the Reproductive Justice Graduate Student Working Group for a roundtable discussion on queering reproductive justice through an interdisciplinary approach. Speakers will include Tamara Lea Spira, author of Queering Families; Carly Thomsen, author of forthcoming book Reproductive Justice, Queerly; co-creator of the Queer Birth Project Katherine Sobering; obstetrician-gynecologist Aileen Portugal and more. More details forthcoming. 

As more queer people are participating in reproduction, often through assisted reproductive technologies and their stratified global markets, questions around queer reproductive justice are ever salient. The roundtable will discuss the in/justice issues experienced by both queer individuals and by other marginalized social groups implicated in queer reproduction. In doing so, the roundtable will pose questions about whether queering reproductive justice can expand notions of reproduction and queerness, leading to a reflection on what “queering” means, both in scholarship and in activism. 

 

Image: Lake George Reflection by Georgia O'Keeffe, ca. 1921–22