reproductive health and rights

On reproductive justice in Colombia: gendered victimhood and forced parenthood

By Tatiana Sanchez Parra Despite an active domestic reparation programme in Colombia, children born of conflict-related sexual violence remain largely invisible in the country’s human rights and transitional justice agendas. There are no policies in place to address their situation and needs, and there are no organizations or networks dedicated to working with or for …

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Making life possible: mothering and caring in the British asylum accommodation system

By Júlia Fernandez Molina Reproductive justice frameworks need to include the power of care to reproduce life under the gendered and racialised conditions of asylum accommodation, writes Júlia Fernandez. Image: Rayan’s accommodation, a small studio flat where she lives with her two children since they were moved to a very isolated area in the outskirts of …

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On Menstrual Justice

Leave a Comment / Feminist Dossier, reproductive health and rights / By Hemangini Gupta

By Prof. Marcy Karin Professor Marcy Karin shares her remarks from the GENDER.ED-IASH event on Reproductive Justice to mark International Women’s Day in 2023. We don’t talk about menstrual injustice enough, she writes. On the rare occasions we do talk about menstruation in public, we view it as something dirty and don’t consider the varied …

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Period Poverty, University of Edinburgh

Leave a Comment / feminism, Feminist Dossier, reproductive health and rights / By Hemangini Gupta

by Lauren Galligan Image: The Period Poverty Facebook page Lauren Galligan shares her comments from the Reproductive Justice roundtable on March 8 hosted by GENDER.ED and IASH. She talked about Period Poverty Edinburgh, which is a grassroot non-profit organisation that was set up on campus in 2018 to end period poverty and the stigma surrounding periods. …

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Introducing the Feminist Dossier on Reproductive Justice

Leave a Comment / Events, Feminist Dossier, reproductive health and rights, women's health / By Hemangini Gupta

One of the reasons that people access our blog is to read and hear about academic work that is written for broad audiences. Our blogs can be used in classrooms and by activists, artists, scholars, and practitioners who are looking to engage feminist issues and access new research. With this in mind, we’re introducing a …

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Alisha Palmer – ECR Spotlight

Leave a Comment / ECR Spotlight, feminism, reproductive health and rights / By Hemangini Gupta

Pic: Aiden Frazier, used with the UnSplash license. A Threat and a Promise: Abortion’s History in the Twenty-First Century by Alisha Palmer In 1929, Marie Stopes, famous birth control advocate, claimed that ‘an epidemic of abortions’ was sweeping England. As the unofficial figurehead of the British birth control movement and founder of the UK’s first …

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Calling student researchers and campaigners: contraceptive health and rights

Leave a Comment / News, queer health, reproductive health and rights, student researchers, Update, women's health / By Fiona Mackay

CERT- the student-led research and campaigning group on contraceptive health and rights – is seeking new researchers. The closing date is Monday October 11.