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Sexuality Social Justice

Sexuality social justice emphasizes the notion that all people, regardless of their sexual and gender identities, sexual health status or related behaviors, deserve equitable access to societal opportunities and equalities. Any acts intended to restrict or diminish this access represents a violation of sexuality social justice (Galarza & Anthony, 2015). Furthermore, the impacts of systemic oppression such as white supremacy and racism on individual and community experiences of sexuality and gender creates additional challenges for individuals navigating needed resources, support, and affirmation (Kattari, Walls, Whitfield, & Langenderfer-Magruder, 2015; McConnell, Janulis, Phillips, Truong, & Birkett, 2018).

Killing The Black Body

By using the history of how American law–beginning with slavery–has treated the issue of the state’s right to interfere with the black woman’s body, the author explosively and effectively makes the case for the legal redress to the racist implications of current policy with regards to 1) access to and coercive dispensing of birth control to poor black women 2) the criminalization of parenting by poor black women who have used drugs 3) the stigmatization and devaluation of poor black mothers under the new welfare provisions, and 4) the differential access to and disproportionate spending of social resources on the new reproductive technologies used by wealthy white couples to insure genetically related offspring.

Reproductive Justice: An Introduction

Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the Twenty-First Century publishes works that explore the contours and content of reproductive justice. The series will include primers intended for students and those new to reproductive justice as well as books of original research that will further knowledge and impact society.