2017 - 2018: Critical Approaches to Race and Equity

Logan O'Laughlin, MA, and Jey Saung, MA, were selected as the 2017-2018 CLIP Fellows. They will teach courses on the theme of Race, Reproduction, and Sexuality, bridging their overlapping scholarship on queer studies, trans studies, and reproductive justice. Through intersectional lenses, each of these courses asks: What constitutes reproduction and how does it inform ideologies of race, sexuality, and the environment? They critically examine how nuclear family narratives, fertility discourses, and reproductive technologies are not just liberatory tools for individuals but also have long histories of colonialism, environmental racism, and eugenics, particularly against queer and trans people of color. These oft-ignored histories lead us to explore the roles of the state as well as the implications of the globalization of reproductive economies (such as oocyte donation, transnational surrogacy, and reproductive tourism). These courses use feminist and queer scholarship as foundations to foster critical thinking and turn to experiences from reproductive justice and environmental justice activists to conceptualize modes of resistance.

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