Activist Authors on Reproductive Justice: New Books that are Building an Intersectional Movement (webinar recording)

Our Bodies Ourselves hosted a conversation with four powerful, activist authors on May 28, 2025. Loretta J. Ross, Carrie N. Baker, and Our Bodies Ourselves expert panel co-chairs Candace Bond-Theriault and Marlene Fried discussed their new books and how they are helping to shape an intersectional movement for reproductive justice.

Our four speakers opened the program with overviews of their books. We then had a vibrant conversation about strategies and practical advice for advocacy amid the current backlash, where to find inspiration, the intersection of disability and reproductive justice, and other audience questions.

Featuring:
"Queering Reproductive Justice" by Candace Bond-Theriault,
"Abortion Pills" by Carrie N. Baker (available open access),
"Calling In" by Loretta J. Ross, 
and "Abortion and Reproductive Justice" by Marlene Fried and Loretta J. Ross.

Questions and timestamps: 
3:00 -- Speaker introductions
7:35 -- The activist authors give overviews of their books
24:02 -- To what extent are each of your books responses to the Dobbs decision? Did Dobbs change your thinking and action, as well as the context of your work?
36:36 -- What strategies, lessons, and practical advice are most useful now, as we all strive to counter rollbacks of reproductive health, rights, and justice; to confront fascism and white supremacy?
51:08 -- Where do you go to find energy, hope and inspiration yourselves? What keeps you writing in the face of everything that we are going through right now and what keeps you doing activist work in the face of the backlash against RJ? 
1:05:32 -- What do you wish people would ask you about your book?
1:20:45 -- Could you speak about disabled women and reproductive justice?  How much are disabled women addressed in your work and activism?  How are disabled women engaged in these issues? How is the outreach happening?

Additional Resources
Plan C: one stop information source for abortion pills
Red States Access: community support groups sharing abortion pills for free
Abortion Truth Campaign: MA-based organization fighting anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers"
Reproductive Transparency Now: Chicago-based anti-CPC org that's organizing a national coalition of groups fighting CPCs
Ms. Magazine: Feminist news and information
The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (The MAP): Offers telehealth abortion services in all 50 states
ReproAction Fake Abortion Clinic Database: a collection of discoverable anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the United States, independently researched and updated by Reproaction