Gender Medizin: Keynote »Reproductive Justice« von Loretta J. Ross

Reproductive Justice is a concept developed by Black feminists in
the early 1990s in the United States, a good ten years after nearly
2,000 participants attended the 1983 Black Women's Health Issues
Conference. A broad and diverse movement emerged in which various
organizations including other communities of color began to use the
concept. Reproductive justice recognizes that decisions about
childbearing and parenthood are deeply rooted in social power
relations. For example, ideologies of population control, the
history and continuity of colonialism, racism, and sexism influence
how self-determined individuals can be about these issues. Factors
such as disability, gender identity, residency status, or sexual
orientation are also critical to actual individual
self-determination within systematic oppression. Loretta J. Ross is
one of the co-founders of the concept. In her keynote, she will
introduce its history and explain how reproductive justice can
serve as a basis for intersectional alliances in contexts of
institutional power relations.