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Reproductive justice is about far more than abortion. For one, control of one's body means control of one's life. It means the difference between life and death in some cases, security or poverty, and of course, it means women having agency, being captains of their souls.
It is also more than the issue of abortion. It's also about birth control, sexual health, and fertility. The right not to have a child or to have a child. It's about birth control and IVF, about prenatal and well-baby health care. It's about agency. It's about maternal mortality
and very much about the disparities in maternal mortality for Black and Brown women.
Here is something short from the incomparable Loretta Ross - no paywall.
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
Here is something a little longer about Reproductive Justice
law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/c…
And here's a whole damn book
ucpress.edu/book/978052028…
When I was in college, I was vaguely pro-choice but while going to work one morning I witnessed a 14-year-old Black girl kill herself by jumping off a parking garage. I was so close, her blood and matter got on my clothes. She had gone to one of those pregnancy crisis clinics.
It changed me. I am no single-issue voter because Reproductive Justice is not a single-issue. Right-winger paying Black women to insert Norplant is a reproductive justice issue. LGBTQIA families wanting children is a RJ issue. Infertility is an RJ issue. Child care is an RJ issue
I have so much animosity for the forced-birthers. I can't even call them anti-choice, they are more than that. But, I am glad John Kasich is going to advocate for Biden at the Democratic Convention, though I probably won't listen. So why?
Well, he's not there to speak to me or to any Democrat. He is there for the people who ARE single-issue voters who might vote for Biden if not for the abortion issue. He's giving him permission just this once to vote for democracy - and fight Biden after the election
Conventions are not really for us anymore. Not since they became entertainment television. So since they are broadcast to introduce the candidate and the party to the voters - not just the Democrats, having an asshole give permission to vote for Biden is useful
I have no illusion that come January when Biden takes office, Kasich will be a thorn in the sides of all Democrats. He will be the enemy again. So that's fine. This is not just about winning this election, it's about saving democracy. All hands on deck.
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Precarity is a word we don’t use enough. It is defined as a state of insecurity or persistent uncertainty. It is usually used in reference to income insecurity and economic inequality.

But social scientists also talk about social precarity
Judith Butler wrote, “Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.”
Social scientists do tend to drain their words of urgency.
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I am not here for ideas on how to get the mythical Bernie voter. They don't show up. They didn't show up for Bernie either. The avatar of Berniedom for me will always be the woman interviewed while in line to attend her 10th Bernie rally on the day she was supposed to vote.
The rally was not in her state and was a good ten hours away from home. She is the perfect Bernie "voter." Symbolic gestures of participation while substance is lacking. Many Bernie voters are going to be mature and will vote for Biden, or at least vote against Trump via Biden.
The subset that threatens to defeat Biden and vote for the selected, unelected Green candidate, Howie, or even to vote for Trump are louder than their size because they have several amplifiers with blue checks and magazine sinecures.
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Long ago, raised by Social Democrat parents, I used to think class was the main issue. I believed that if we only resolved inequality, reduced the inequities that make people like Bezos, Gates, and others obscenely wealthy while their employees struggle to make ends meet,
we would reduce, even eliminate, oppression because people think in zero-sum thinking and would be less hateful if they weren't just scraping by. But you know, my parents just scraped by and weren't hateful. There's a lot of hateful rich people.
Trump is racist AF. If economic security reduced racism, he would be out there marching with Shaun King. (He would still be a con artist.)

No, I realized racism is more than economic insecurity. I also realized it is far more prevalent than I ever imagined. I worked where I was
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