Below you will find resources on a variety of reproductive justice topics. Open the drop-down menus to see each type of media.
Videos
What is Reproductive Justice?
What Everyone Needs to Know About “Abortion Reversal”
These Doulas Are Delivering Support For Black Mothers
Birth Justice Project
Hearing On “Protecting Title X and Safeguarding Quality Family Planning Care”
Giving Birth To Hope
The Fall and Rise of the IUD
The Racist Roots of Reproductive Rights in America
An Ode to Feminist Leaders, by Belinda Thomas, ACTIONS Predoctoral Fellow
Podcasts
Podcasts:
REPROS Fight Back
A podcast on the frontlines of the fight for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Another Round
The hosts explore relevant topics in regard to the black American experience, race across the spectrum, culture, gender, and a whole flux of other topics.
Code Switch
Journalists of color explore the intersections of race, gender, and identity and explore what these identities mean.
Woke WOC Docs
A Podcast By and For WOC in Medicine and Health Justice.
"The Promise of Midwives", Scholars Strategy Network Podcast
Our very own ACTIONS Intern, Rachel Applewhite, discusses the effectiveness of doulas and midwives and the promise they hold for improving Black maternal health.
Specific Episodes:
Piled High and Deep Podcast Episode
Dr. Linda Franck discusses the unique journey to get a Ph.D. in Nursing, the many paths to nursing that exist, and her own journey to a Nursing Ph.D.
Issues for Your Tissues Podcast Episode
Monica McLemore, Ph.D., MPH, RN discusses her work at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, her research, her teaching, her patients, and her recent piece in May's issue of Scientific American.
Woke WOC Docs
Dr. Monica McLemore discusses the health injustices faced by Black mothers and the work she has done to combat them.
The Takeaway
Dr. Monica McLemore discusses the Black Maternal Health Momnibus package and racial disparities within reproductive health care.
Websites
Abortion Law Project
A new collaboratively developed public database focused on laws and regulations applicable to the provision of abortion services, created by the Guttmacher Institute, Resources for Abortion Delivery (RAD), Policy Surveillance Program of the Center for Public Health Law Research, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), National Abortion Federation (NAF), and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) are excited to launch. This comprehensive aggregation of state abortion laws explores state-level statutes and regulations, in effect as of December 1, 2018, across all 50 states and Washington D.C.
Field Guide to Structural Racism in Health
Dr. Brittany Chambers discusses the policy priorities her team is developing in partnership with Black women in Oakland and Fresno, in a new field guide on health equity and structural racism from Apolitical.
SB 464 Educational Modules
Dignity In Childbirth And Pregnancy: Eliminating Inequalities In Perinatal Health Care. This project was funded by the California Health Care Foundation in response to strong evidence of racial inequalities in perinatal care and outcomes.
Articles
Research Papers
*To see publications from ACTIONS' team members and scholars please click here.*
Op-Eds
"Subtle abuse affects women during childbirth", Patience Afulani
"Antenatal care in Kenya needs improvement", Patience Afulani & Rebecca Griffin
"Why Warning Pregnant Women Not to Drink Can Backfire", Aaron E. Carroll
"If You Don't Want to Provide Abortions, Don't Go Into Healthcare", Monica R. McLemore Ph.D., MPH, RN
Doulas and Midwives: Transforming the Landscape, Together, Courtney L. Everson and Melissa Cheyney
Books
Davis, A. (1981) Women, Race, and Class. New York: Random House.
Davis, D. A., & Craven, C. (2016). Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through methodologies, challenges, and possibilities. Rowman & Littlefield.
Davis, E., & Pascali-Bonaro, D. (2010). Orgasmic Birth: Your guide to a safe, satisfying, and pleasurable birth experience. Rodale.
Davis-Floyd, R. E. (2004). Birth as an American Rite of Passage: With a new preface. University of California Press.
Davis-Floyd, R. E., & Sargent, C. (1997). Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-cultural perspectives. University of California Press.
Davis-Floyd, R. (Ed.). (2009). Birth Models That Work. University of California Press.
Flavin, J. (2008). Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The policing of women’s reproduction in America. NYU Press.
Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Continuum.
Gaskin, I. M. (2008). Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth: Updated with New Material. Bantam.
Gaskin, I. M. (2011). Birth Matters: a midwife’s manifesta. New York: Seven Stories Press.
Ginsburg, F. D. & Rapp, R. (Eds.) (1995). Conceiving the New World Order. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Jordan, B. (1992). Birth in Four Cultures: A crosscultural investigation of childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States. Waveland Press.
Kitzinger, S. (2011). Rediscovering Birth. Pinter & Martin Publishers.
Kitzinger, S. (2013). Birth & Sex: The power and the passion. Pinter & Martin Publishers.
Martin, E. (2001). The woman in the body: A cultural analysis of reproduction. Beacon Press.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2020). Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Oparah, J. C., Arega, H., Hudson, D., Jones, L., & Oseguera, T. (2016). Battling over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis in California. Oakland, CA.
Oparah, J. C., & Bonaparte, A. D. (Eds.). (2016). Birthing Justice: Black women, pregnancy, and childbirth. Routledge.
Paul, M., Lichtenberg, E. S., Borgatta, L., Grimes, D. A., Stubblefield, P. G., & Creinin, M. D. (2009). Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive abortion care. Wiley-Blackwell.
Ross, L., Derkas, E., Peoples, W., Roberts, L., & Bridgewater, P. (Eds.). (2017). Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, theory, practice, critique. Feminist Press at CUNY.
Ross, L. & Solinger, R. (2017). Reproductive Justice: An introduction. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Silliman, J., Ross, L., Gutiérrez, E., & Gerber, M. (2016). Undivided Rights: Women of color organizing for reproductive justice. Haymarket Books.
