REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE WORKING GROUP

Co-created and co-directed with Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo

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With the generous support of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa, the working group on reproductive justice convenes a dream team of stakeholders and experts each month to explore reproductive health and justice from a variety of perspectives.

Participants include researchers and practitioners in public health, policy, law, history, communication, anthropology, nursing, medicine, and community organizing/activism. Since its founding in 2019, the working group has crafted a rigorous space of inquiry and critical space of resource and information sharing.

ACADEMIC ESSAYS

“Dobbs, Reproductive Justice, and the Promise of Decolonial and Black Trans Feminisms.” Women’s Studies in Communication (2023). With Shui-yin Sharon Yam.

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“Redefining Our Own Center: An Interview with Stevie Merino.” Rhetoric of Health & Medicine 6, no. 2 (2023): 201-216. With Shui-yin Sharon Yam.​

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“The Term ‘Life’ Should Return to Us”: Learning from Latin America’s Green Wave. Women & Language 46, no. 1 (2023): 275-284. With Lina-Maria Murillo.​

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“Against Gender Essentialism: Reproductive Justice Birthworkers and Gender Inclusivity in Pregnancy and Birth Discourse.” Women’s Studies in Communication 46, no. 1 (2023). With Shui-yin Sharon Yam.
**Recipient of the National Communication Association Feminist and Gender Studies Division Outstanding Article Award, 2023

"No Going Back: The Struggle for a Post-Roe Reproductive Justice." Quarterly Journal of Speech 108, no. 4 (2022): 426-430.

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"Reproductive Justice in the Heartland." In Maternal Theory: Essential Readings, 2nd Edition. Edited by Andrea O'Reilly, 761-777. Ontario: Demeter Press. 2021. With Lina-Maria Murillo.

“Queer(ing) Reproductive Justice.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication. Edited by E Cram and Isaac West. London: Oxford. 2021. With Shui-yin Sharon Yam.

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“Called into the World by All of Us: An Interview with Masculine Birth Ritual Podcast Creator and Host Grover Wehman-Brown.” QED: A Journal of Queer Worldmaking 7, no. 2 (2020): 94-105. 

“Motherhood and the Struggle for Reproductive Justice.” In Routledge Companion to Motherhood. Edited by Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Andrea O’Reilly, and Melinda Vandenbeld Giles, 510-519. London: Routledge. 2019.

“Contemplating Homeland Maternity.” Women’s Studies in Communication 38, no. 2 (2015): 129–34. 

“(In)Conceivable: Risky Reproduction and the Rhetorical Labors of ‘Octomom.’” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 11, no. 3 (2014): 231–49.

“From Community Service to Democratic Education: Making Class(Room) for Communication Activism.” In Teaching Communication Activism: Communication Education for Social Justice, edited by Lawrence R. Frey and David Palmer, 169–98. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2014. With Billie Murray.

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“Speaking of Solidarity: Surrogacy and the Rhetorics of Reproductive (In)Justice.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 34, no. 3 (2013): 126–64.

“No Exception, Post-Prevention: Differential Biopolitics on the Morning After.” In Contemporary Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction, edited by Sara Hayden and D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, 27–48. Blue Ridge Summit: Lexington Books, 2010.

“Challenging Pedagogies: Reflections on Communication Activism and Service-Learning.” Rocky Mountain Communication Review 6 (2009): 52–55. With Billie Murray.

“The Personal Is Still Political: Embodied Politics in Third Wave Feminism.” Women’s Studies in Communication 28, no. 2 (2005): 235–57. With Julia T. Wood.