We Are Pregnant with Freedom
Situated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormick’s lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black sexual and reproductive liberation through the storytelling work of those most marginalized in reproductive justice research and...
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University of California Press
2025
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| description | Situated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormick’s lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black sexual and reproductive liberation through the storytelling work of those most marginalized in reproductive justice research and discourse. The book recounts McCormick’s loss of twin sons to stillbirth, her near-fatal experience with preeclampsia, and her subsequent reproductive justice research and advocacy work with the Afiya Center, a Black-led reproductive justice organization in Texas. Its multidisciplinary narrative shatters the silences wrought by stigma and historical erasure, ultimately proposing a new grammar of reproductive justice that can serve the people as a vehicle for community building, healing, and bodily liberation.
“Stacie Selmon McCormick’s unique offering is her focus on storytelling, and specifically on Black women’s testimonies about their own reproductive journeys. Her collaboration with the Afiya Center grounds the book in community, weaving together scholarship, theory, and lived experience in service of imagining new futures. A fascinating, engaging, and impeccably researched read.” — DANI McCLAIN, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
“We Are Pregnant with Freedom is exquisitely multidisciplinary, using a wide variety of cultural texts to investigate multiple forms of reproductive injustice. McCormick’s work sheds new light on our understanding of disability justice, carcerality, and anti-Blackness and the afterlives of slavery. This is a truly singular book that resists categorization.” — KHIARA M. BRIDGES, author of Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1631382025-07-31T05:11:25Z We Are Pregnant with Freedom Selmon McCormick, Stacie Afiya center; texas; feminism; black women; social conditions; reproductive rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory Situated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormick’s lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black sexual and reproductive liberation through the storytelling work of those most marginalized in reproductive justice research and discourse. The book recounts McCormick’s loss of twin sons to stillbirth, her near-fatal experience with preeclampsia, and her subsequent reproductive justice research and advocacy work with the Afiya Center, a Black-led reproductive justice organization in Texas. Its multidisciplinary narrative shatters the silences wrought by stigma and historical erasure, ultimately proposing a new grammar of reproductive justice that can serve the people as a vehicle for community building, healing, and bodily liberation. “Stacie Selmon McCormick’s unique offering is her focus on storytelling, and specifically on Black women’s testimonies about their own reproductive journeys. Her collaboration with the Afiya Center grounds the book in community, weaving together scholarship, theory, and lived experience in service of imagining new futures. A fascinating, engaging, and impeccably researched read.” — DANI McCLAIN, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood “We Are Pregnant with Freedom is exquisitely multidisciplinary, using a wide variety of cultural texts to investigate multiple forms of reproductive injustice. McCormick’s work sheds new light on our understanding of disability justice, carcerality, and anti-Blackness and the afterlives of slavery. This is a truly singular book that resists categorization.” — KHIARA M. BRIDGES, author of Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization 2025-07-29T13:53:27Z 2025-07-29T13:53:27Z 2025-07-21T08:19:06Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104302 9780520398795 9780520422544 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163138 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104302/1/we-are-pregnant-with-freedom.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104302/1/we-are-pregnant-with-freedom.pdf University of California Press The George Gund Foundation 10.1525/luminos.236 10.1525/luminos.236 19856893-4bf2-4e3e-9137-c7692d64e4c1 9780520398795 9780520422544 The George Gund Foundation 281 Oakland open access |
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