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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.
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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 280
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
Publication Date:
15 July 2025
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520398795
Format: Paperback
“We Are Pregnant with Freedom is a transformative read. It illuminates the stakes of reproductive justice through voices we all need to be listening to more closely.”
Stacie Selmon McCormick is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the author of Staging Black Fugitivity.
Contents
Foreword: Reproductive Freedom Dreaming in Texas: A Livable Black Futures Collective Statement
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Waterbreaking
1. Toward a Radical We: Decolonizing Sexual and Reproductive Health
2. Reproductive Justice: An American Grammar
3. Rememory: A Reproductive Justice Mixtape
4. Imagining Livable Black Futures
5. Abolition Medicine
6. Policing Black Birth
Epilogue: You Won't Break My Soul
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Foreword: Reproductive Freedom Dreaming in Texas: A Livable Black Futures Collective Statement
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Waterbreaking
1. Toward a Radical We: Decolonizing Sexual and Reproductive Health
2. Reproductive Justice: An American Grammar
3. Rememory: A Reproductive Justice Mixtape
4. Imagining Livable Black Futures
5. Abolition Medicine
6. Policing Black Birth
Epilogue: You Won't Break My Soul
Notes
Bibliography
Index