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- - - - Dorothy Roberts: The Failure of Dobbs
        
        Dobbs not only gave states the power to ban abortion but further intensifies racial inequality through controlling marginalized women’s bodies
        
        Social perception of Black women structures family policing system → believe unfit to raise children so take their children away
        
        CPS fails because it is about policing
        
        Should abolish CPS and instead focus on institutions that support families
        
        Instead of punishing impoverished families for being poor, we should help provide them with resources
        
        “The reproductive justice framework includes the freedom not to have children or to have children and to raise children in safe and sustainable communities”
      - Dorothy Roberts: The Meaning of Liberty
        
        Reproductive Rights: freedom to make choices → narrow focus on abortion
        
        Reproductive Justice: freedom to have resources necessary for a healthy pregnancy and parenting (government needs to intervene to help enact this freedom)
        
        Black women’s reproductive justice is not protected
        
        Need to view through historical framework:
        
        Slave children were taken from their mothers
        
        Women deemed unworthy of procreation had to consent to sterilization in order to rejoin society
        
        Welfare mothers penalized for having more children
        
        Important link between reproductive rights and racial equality that is not being addressed → liberty includes Black women’s reproductive rights and upholding this liberty is a step towards equality
        
        “They are penalized because the combination of their poverty, race, and marital status is seen to make them unworthy of procreating"
      - The Combahee River Collective Statement
        
        A group of Black feminists came together to describe the issues they face that the civil rights and feminists movements are not addressing
        
        Need political movements that are both antiracist and antisexist
        
        Being at the bottom of all those who are oppressed, means they need to fight everyone above them
        
        Identity politics serves to unite all that are oppressed and fight for freedom for all
        
        “The major source of difficulty in our political work is that we are not just trying to fight oppression on one front or even two, but instead to address a whole range of oppressions"
      - Chandra Mohanty: Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
        
        Cannot view Black women’s experiences through the lens of gender or race separately but intersectionality needs to be addressed
        
        Black women face compounded oppression, meaning their oppressions work together to create new problems that cannot be seen in isolation
        
        White feminist and Black liberation movements are failing Black feminists
        
        “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.”
    - - Jamaica Kincaid: Girl
        
        Mother gives her daughter a continuous list of how to behave like a proper woman
        
        Feels like a rulebook on womanhood
        
        Perpetuates stereotypical gender roles
        
        Very hyperspecific things girls must remember in order to be considered this proper women
        
        The list feels never-ending and very contrasting → is any woman ever good enough?
        
        Women must do it all, get no credit, and take all blame
        
        “Not like the slut you are so bent on becoming”
      - Modhumita Roy: Foreign Babies, Indian Make: Outsourcing Reproduction in the Age of Globalization
        
        India = fertility tourism capital
        
        Surrogate mothers in India have no legal rights, fully controlled by the clinic, and their health is never prioritized
        
        Indian surrogates often take this on out of economic necessity → seek out poor, non-white women so can’t try to claim the child
        
        “some of the women who fight for choice and for privacy rights in the US, at best ignore and at worst deny the same to women whose wombs they rent.”
    - - Dean Spade: Mutilating Gender
        
        Uses own experience to evaluate gender affirming care
        
        Transgender people are diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder in order to get their surgery and hormones
        
        Reinforce gender norms by having to successfully fit a certain narrative in order to access gender affirming care
        
        “To adopt the medical understanding of transexuality is to agree that SRS is the unfortunate treatment of an unfortunate condition, to accept that gender norm adherence is fortunate and healthy, and to undermine the threat to a dichotomous gender system which trans experience can pose”
      - Steven W. Thrasher: Seeking Sanctuary, Embracing Exile: Queer Life on the Run
        
        Queerness is motion
        
        Queer communities across the world are connected through their need to run and seek sanctuary → provide that sanctuary for each other with open arms
        
        What could queer people accomplish if they didn’t always need to fight?