Reproductive Justice Reading List

Reproductive Justice Framework

Abolition and Criminalization

Birth Justice

Social Reproduction Theory

Queer + Trans Reproductive Rights

Sterilization

Disability Rights

Over-medicalization of birth + need for doulas/midwives

Not just abortion

A reading list of articles and books to learn more about reproductive justice and various parts of the movement. This list is ever-evolving and expanding. Feel free to send us suggestions via email if you’d like to add a text!

• “Reproductive Justice, Not Just Rights” (2015) by Dorothy Roberts

• “The Meaning of Reproductive Justice: Simplifying a Complex Concept” by Miriam Zoila Pérez

• "The Color of Choice: White Supremacy and Reproductive Justice." by Loretta Ross

• “The Long, Disgraceful History of American Attacks on Brown and Black Women’s Reproductive Systems” by Natasha Lennard

• If/When/How Brief on Reproductive Justice in the Prison System

• “Beyond Roe v. Wade: Struggling for Abortion Access” by Emily Janakiram

• Reproductive Justice by Sister Song

• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks (Book)

• Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Gina Dent, Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie.

• “Women, Race, and Class Ch:13” by Angela Davis

• “Invisible Sex Workers” by Charlotte Shane

• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts (Book)

• “Abolition Medicine” by Iwai, Khan, and Dasgupta

• “Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth” (2017) by Nina Martin and Renee Montagne

• Open Letter in the New York Times (2020) by Birth Justice Now 

• “ A Woman’s Rights” by the NYT Editorial Board

• “Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis” by Linda Villarosa

• Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against the Family by Sophie Lewis (Book)

• Feminist International by Verónica Gago (Book)

• Fortunes of Feminism by Nancy Fraser (Book)

• “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” by Frederick Engels

• Social Reproduction Theory by Thithi Bhattacharya (Book)

• The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century by Amia Srinivasan (Book)

•  “If You Really Care About Reproductive Justice, You Should Care About Transgender Rights!” (Fact Sheet) by National Women’s Law Center

• “The Right to (Trans) Parent: A Reproductive Justice Approach to Reproductive Rights, Fertility, and Family-Building Issues Facing Transgender People” by Laura Nixon

• “We Must Promote Gender-Inclusive Reproductive Health Care” by Sophia Serrao

• “History of Forced Sterilization and Current U.S. Abuses” by Kathryn Krase

• “Our Long, Troubling History of Sterilizing the Incarcerated” by the Marshall Project

• “How the Pro-Choice Movement Excludes People With Disabilities” by Lenzi Scheible in Rewire

• “Abortion and Disability” by Ruth Hubbard in the Disability Studies Reader

• “Disability and the Right to Choose” by Jennifer Bartlett

• “To Fight for My Son, I Have to Argue That He Should Never Have Been Born” by Jen Gann in The Cut

• Obstetric Violence by Birth Monopoly 

•  “Over-medicalization of Maternal Health in America” by Every Mother Counts

• “A shocking number of women are harassed, ignored, or mistreated during childbirth.” by Julia Belluz

• “Reproductive Justice and ‘Choice’: An Open Letter to Planned Parenthood” by Monica Simpson

• “Who is fit for motherhood? : Why abortion is not the only reproductive right” by Lauren Jade Martin

• “Understanding Reproductive Justice: Transforming the Pro-Choice Movement” by Loretta Ross