Ep. 21: Researching Reproductive Health through a Reproductive Justice Lens w/ Dr. Monica McLemore

03/11/21 • 58 min

In this episode LaKia sits down with nurse, clinician, scholar, and activist Dr. Monica McLemore to discuss how she incorporates RJ into her work as a healthcare provider and researcher. For a full transcipt of this episode visit https://www.blackfeministrants.com/ep-21-transcription or click Transcriptions on the blackfeministrants.com website.

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Ep.20: The Problem with Activism Influencers

Welcome back to Black Feminist Rants! In the season 3 premier of Black Feminist Rants, host, LaKia Williams, discusses her recent experiences with reproductive health issues and how that has re-shaped her experience with Reproductive Justice, as well as some common misconceptions with the RJ framework. LaKia ends the episode discussing the problem with Activism Influencers and the pipeline from activist to celebrity/influencer. She mentions a Politico article that discusses the recent issues with Black Lives Matter, click the link if you would like to read the article in its entirety.

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Ep. 22: Womanism, Black Feminism, and African Feminism

This episode explores womanism, Black feminism, and African feminism and the ways that the west gatekeeps knowledge production as a means to exclude Black women and African women and how mainstream feminism is another example of the erasure of Black women's labor and intellectual labor.

Mentioned Articles:

Brown's article: https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/13701/barkleybrown_womanist;jsessionid=85B93DAAE4DC9FF3C96B3E53AC27E3D9?sequence=1

Combahee River Collective Statement: https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf