Critical Perspectives on Global Reproductive Health

What does it mean to think transnationally and transhistorically about persistent reproductive health inequities within and between the global South and North? Thirty years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo declared reproductive health a human right, this panel moves beyond popular discourses of reproductive rights to center calls to action and theoretical frameworks such as reproductive justice and obstetric violence developed by women of color activists and scholars in the US and across the global South. Drawing on the perspectives of scholars of history and sociology and a Pittsburgh-based doula/health activist, we connect local and global systems of reproductive oppression, share strategies of resistance, and imagine possibilities for more just reproductive futures for all.