Presentation Title
Reproductive Justice: Sacred Activism in Two Dimensions
Document Type
Poster Session
Department
Women and Gender Studies
Faculty Mentor
Dr. Julianne Siegfriedt
Keywords
Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Freedom, Abortion, Pro-Choice, Racism, Systemic Racism, Psychology, Carl Jung, Loretta Ross, Kimberle Crenshaw, Intersectionality
Abstract
This project explains the value of the Black feminist intersectional theoretical framework that the Reproductive Justice movement utilizes, and places this in conversation with Jungian depth psychology, which offers a powerful and complementary symbolic language with which to understand the deeper potentialities of this movement’s response to reproductive bio-politics of control. Research included a close reading of texts in intersectional theory, reproductive justice, and feminist and racially conscious revisions of the analytical psychology of Carl G. Jung. I contend that the Reproductive Justice Movement, organizing from intersectional locations of the most marginalized, are aiding in Jung’s Individuation Process in the collective by confronting powerful complexes that have informed oppressive reproductive control. This secondary aspect of their organizing makes it a powerful sacred activism.
Reproductive Justice: Sacred Activism in Two Dimensions
This project explains the value of the Black feminist intersectional theoretical framework that the Reproductive Justice movement utilizes, and places this in conversation with Jungian depth psychology, which offers a powerful and complementary symbolic language with which to understand the deeper potentialities of this movement’s response to reproductive bio-politics of control. Research included a close reading of texts in intersectional theory, reproductive justice, and feminist and racially conscious revisions of the analytical psychology of Carl G. Jung. I contend that the Reproductive Justice Movement, organizing from intersectional locations of the most marginalized, are aiding in Jung’s Individuation Process in the collective by confronting powerful complexes that have informed oppressive reproductive control. This secondary aspect of their organizing makes it a powerful sacred activism.
