#njcurj i intended for my research assignment previously this semester to be focused on the idea of the “professional transsexual”, which i had seen discussed in hil malatino’s trans affects.

#njcurj umar brought up the current concerns about the future of higher education, and especially the future of more "left-wing" programs such as wgst/lati/afro studies given pressure from the federal government. the threat of withholding federal aid at institutions that teach these subjects is,...

#njcurj i enjoyed jordan's piece, and i was especially interested by her view of children as more serious than adults. it really highlights the arbitrary nature of the power wielded over children, and shows how many of the things one is said to "understand when they grow up" are really much less

#njcurj one of the things i found striking in solinger's reading is how much of this discussion has historically and continues to view children as property or "assets", seen in how legislation concerns the right to have and *possess* children, and is rooted in rhetoric of investing in children

#njcurj one of the things i found notable in the podcast was dr. sufrin's comment that she had never considered that people in prison might be pregnant prior to encountering that reality. i think it speaks to the way the structure of carceral justice works that people in the "outside world" are...

#njcurj i enjoyed michaels' piece & her point about the "right to kill" is one i think i agree with, anf i think both hers and flavin's excerpt seem to be talking around the nature of abortion rights as a function of patriarchal control (as well as other systems- especially considering the role

#njcurj jarman's piece highlights why the pro-choice/life binary is reductive by showing how disabled lives and futures trouble the ways we usually think about reproduction. the side of 'choice' for instance gives the right to 'avoid' disabled children to parents, but in an ableist world that is not

#njcurj considering for my project the idea of the "professional transsexual" (or something along those lines) which i believe i first encountered in malatino's 'side affects'- if i am remembering correctly i think there might be an opportunity there for RJ research though i will have to reread it

#njcurj there arent words to describe the forced sterilization, and later legal justification for it, that guttierez discusses beyond horrifying. i think the way that eugenics was interdependent with anti-(esp. mexican) immigrant attitudes is important to pay attention to in the current climate

#njcurj while reading KBB ch 3 i'm considering how ideas of "realism", "practicality", etc are propogated and used as tools of white supremacy- this was prompted mainly by the quote early on from rees on norplant, who essentially said "while it'd be nice to fix what causes poverty, doing that is...

#njcurj haynes et al.'s paper was very interesting, especially the discussion of the role social workers have played in indigenous genocide; since i'm going into a related field i am very concerned with the way in which members of so-called "helping" professions have historically- and still do...

#njcurj the discussion of indigenous experiences with reproductive justice (or lack thereof) illustrates the way in which the patriarchal state apparatus operates under and utilizes abusive logics and actions. these take and have taken the form of literal abuse, such as at residential schools, as...

#njcurj while #nurturenj correctly recognizes health disparities as a function of racism, its status as a product/producer of the liberal electoral order is made clear by stopping short of fully recognizing that white supremacy is integral to the US socio-political-economic order- and its (1/2)

#njcurj #RJResolutions hoping to learn and discuss more about unrecognized parts of reproductive justice esp recognizing "reproduction" for the full meaning of the term- the reproduction and maintenance of life and community