Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $50).

Step 2: Register for “Confronting Reproductive Imperialism” here.

This workshop will situate pregnancy criminalization, political attacks on abortion access, and the proliferation of "Cop Cities" within the context of biopolitical and necropolitical control of colonized peoples. We will define and discuss reproductive imperialism as policies and technologies which undermine self-determination that the U.S. imposes on its citizens at home, and exports internationally.

Participants will then consider the malleability of U.S. constitutional law, the limits of the UN Human Rights framework, and critically reflect on the strategies and tactics deployed by the U.S. reproductive justice movement. How can we reimagine reproductive justice as a global, interconnected movement that resists both local and transnational forms of reproductive oppression? What does a decolonial reproductive justice praxis look like? In this workshop, we will explore those answers together.

Jalessah T. Jackson is a Black queer (m)other based in Atlanta. They are a cultural worker, reproductive justice practitioner, community-based educator, and the founder of the Decolonial Feminist Collective (DFC), a political project utilizing decolonial Black feminist frameworks in political education, mutual aid, and international solidarity-building.