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Start Date
1-21-2022 2:00 PM
Description
Loretta J. Ross will discuss Reproductive Futurism, a Black feminist theory of reproductive science and technology that prioritizes Black women’s reproductive experiences in examining the promise of techno utopianism and its links to white supremacy. Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, she was the National Coordinator of the SisterSongWomen of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (2005-2012) and co-created the theory of Reproductive Justice.Loretta was National Co-Director of April 25, 2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history at that time. She founded the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia, launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women (NOW), and was the national program director of the National Black Women’s Health Project. One of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center, Loretta was the third Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center. She has co-written three books on reproductive justice: Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice; Reproductive Justice: An Introduction; and Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique. Her monograph, Calling in the Calling Out Culture, will be published in 2022.
Reproductive Futurism with Loretta Ross
Loretta J. Ross will discuss Reproductive Futurism, a Black feminist theory of reproductive science and technology that prioritizes Black women’s reproductive experiences in examining the promise of techno utopianism and its links to white supremacy. Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, she was the National Coordinator of the SisterSongWomen of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (2005-2012) and co-created the theory of Reproductive Justice.Loretta was National Co-Director of April 25, 2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history at that time. She founded the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia, launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women (NOW), and was the national program director of the National Black Women’s Health Project. One of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center, Loretta was the third Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center. She has co-written three books on reproductive justice: Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice; Reproductive Justice: An Introduction; and Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique. Her monograph, Calling in the Calling Out Culture, will be published in 2022.
