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An intersectional analysis of sex education in the U.S. reveals a need for a more nuanced and community-based approach to sexuality education. A Reproductive Justice framed sexuality education program attends to the needs and desires expressed by a community, while interrogating and resisting the interlocking systems of power that work…
An intersectional analysis of sex education in the U.S. reveals a need for a more nuanced and community-based approach to sexuality education. A Reproductive Justice framed sexuality education program attends to the needs and desires expressed by a community, while interrogating and resisting the interlocking systems of power that work to uphold white patriarchy and white supremacy. Reproductive Justice sexuality education is socially transformational when it centers student creation and community participation. Instead of risk prevention and rights-based sex education programs that often perpetuate oppressive structures and erase students' lived experiences, student-centered sexuality education with a Reproductive Justice framework allows for participants to feel safe and valued. This re/imagining of sex education also allows for pleasure instead of shame to be a product of sexuality exploration. Key words: Reproductive Justice, Sexuality Education, K-12 Sex Education, Community Created Curriculum, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Intersectionality
Nine Black birth workers serving in the state of Arizona participated in this autoethnographic project. Birth workers are laborers who work with pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people. This includes doulas, midwives, lactation consultants, nurses, obstetricians and more. Participants in this study primarily identified as doulas, midwives, or lactation consultants. I…
Nine Black birth workers serving in the state of Arizona participated in this autoethnographic project. Birth workers are laborers who work with pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people. This includes doulas, midwives, lactation consultants, nurses, obstetricians and more. Participants in this study primarily identified as doulas, midwives, or lactation consultants. I conducted semi-structured interviews with the participants, followed by one or two post visits to verify the data and ask additional questions. Participants reported various reasons for entering birth work that coalesced around a desire to support pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people across their reproductive timeline. Additionally, participating birth workers recounted their preparation to enter the profession and disclosed their thoughts about the perinatal bodymind. Moreover, participants demonstrated the prolific nature of obstetric violence in hospital-based birthing practices along with the ways they resist this violence. Demonstrating their enactment of birth work as activism, participating Black birth workers recalled instances where they have served as a safe and supportive presence for a range of pregnancy outcomes. As participants attested, birth work can be costly for them. They shared the demands of the work as well as the compensation they receive. Furthermore, participants build birth work formations to support their work affectively and materially.
