Diving in: Connecting Reproductive Justice, Sexualities, and Knowledge Production

2025/10/07 by Zakiya Luna · 1 voice
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy #Reproductive Health and Technologies

paper · doi:10.1177/30333717251381339

openalex publication_date 2025/10/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

This essay considers how attention to reproductive justice can facilitate cross-pollination between scholars of reproduction and scholars of sex and sexuality. By applying common aspects of grassroots reproductive justice practice—Creatively visioning; Confronting our fault lines; Connecting the dots at our margins and solidarities; and Community building—to common areas of scholarly knowledge production, sociologists may be able to advance our shared interest despite an increasingly fraught academic terrain.

Citations

• Intentionally Intersectional: Putting Race at the Center of Sexuality Studies
• Will Sex and Reproduction Remain Separable in the United States? It’s a Matter of Life and Death
• In Plain Sight: Conversing Empires, Race, Sexuality, and Gender
• Race after technology. Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code

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