This group aims to create a space where researchers at UWM and reproductive justice community advocates in Milwaukee can work together to address systemic injustices disproportionately affecting Black, Latinx, and other women and trans people of color. In working together, we hope to develop a project that helps bring attention to reproductive injustices in Milwaukee but also that acts as a resource for making substantial changes to improve the conditions within which individuals can exercise their “human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities” (SisterSong).
Members:
- Lindsey Krug (Co-PI, Architecture & Urban Planning)
- Maria Novotny, PhD (English)
- M. Estrella Sotomayor, PhD (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Kristiana Perleberg (Co-PI, student, PhD, Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement)
- Amber Chavez (student, PhD, Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement)
- Teresa Ortiz (student, PhD, Community & Behavioral Health Promotion)
- Tara Knight (student, PhD, Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement)