Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing Symposium

You are invited to Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing, a symposium hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (CRRJ) at UC Berkeley Law, If/When/How: Lawyers for Reproductive Justice, and Movement for Family Power, and the Gender Journal.

WHEN: 9am – 5pm / Friday, November 15th (with a book sale and signing by Dorothy Roberts to follow from 5-6pm) 

FOOD: Breakfast will be available starting at 8am. Lunch will be available from 11:45 – 1pm. 

WHERE: UC Berkeley School of Public Health – Berkeley Way West Building  (2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704)

Please join us for a full day of panel discussions and critical conversations interrogating the family policing system–or the so-called “child welfare” system–as a site of reproductive punishment and control, particularly for Black, Latine, and Indigenous families, and other marginalized communities. We are thrilled to share that our keynote speaker will be Dorothy Roberts, thought leader, author, and professor–and our closing speaker will be Amanda Wallace, movement leader and founder of Operation Stop CPS. 

The post-Roe landscape has amplified the connection between attacks on reproductive autonomy and family integrity. More so than ever, people are being forced to remain pregnant and subsequently punished by the family police for raising children without the necessary support or resources. Through practices like test-and-report and mandated reporting, the family policing system also deters birthing people from seeking the reproductive health care they need. 

We are calling on advocates to unite in advancing a shared vision for reproductive justice that includes an end to family policing.

PLEASE RSVP HERE BY 11/8/24!