Events

October 7th: Visioning Reproductive Justice for Black Birthing People

October 31st: A Collaborative Approach to Address Family Policing

Please join students, faculty and staff from the School of Law, the School of Social Welfare and the Joint Medical Program for a collaborative workshop focusing on how we can work across disciplines to address inequities in family policing. The unique discussion based seminar will be held on 10/31 from 9-12pm at the JMP Suite in the Golden Bear Center (1995 University Ave). RSVP here by 10/7.

November 15th: Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice Symposium

Please join us, Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing, 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.

Capacity is limited. To attend the event, please at tinyurl.com/BreakingSilosInRJ2024 by September 27, 2024.

Past events include:

September 24th: Abortion Doula Dispatch: Histories and futures of Reproductive Justice in North Carolina

September 10th: Family Policing and Family Defense

April 9: Speaker Event with Melissa Ayala Garcia

Feb 20: Fighting for Reproductive Justice While Incarcerated

On February 20, Faride Perez-Aucar delivered a talk based on a forthcoming report titled, “Fighting for Reproductive Justice While Incarcerated,” where she laid the foundation for exploring the intersections of criminal justice and reproductive justice through an abolitionist lens. She shared that while many legislative reforms have been made in recent years to better support the provision of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care for people in California prisons and jails, much work remains to effectively ensure the rights conferred by the policy changes are realized by the individuals they were intended to benefit and protect. As examples, she cited ongoing shackling of incarcerated pregnant people in hospitals despite a longstanding law barring the dangerous practice and the uneven implementation of lactaction policies intended to support breast and chest feeding incarcerated parents. Though a previous version of the report mostly focused on access to pregnancy-related and reproductive health care services for people in custody, the new edition will feature and expand discussion on other tenets of reproductive justice centering the right to family on family unity by highlighting opportunities for systems change and advocacy in reentry services and in the family policing system.