It’s 10 o’clock on Saturday morning, and we’ve just heard that reproductive justice is about “applying an intersectional analysis to the issues.” In other words, repro justice infractions don’t occur in a bubble! Often, women (and men) confronting reproductive injustices are the same ones confronting sexism, racism, classism, homophobia.

And at the intersection of sex and gender and race and class is LSRJ: these men and women convening in this great hall whose backgrounds are as varied as the privileges they’ve enjoyed and the rights for which they’ve had to fight. Hard.  This is probably why I love it.

This is definitely why I’m super-enjoying an opportunity to brainstorm with folks about shared concerns, nurturing one another’s aspirations to move and shake and make change. PS) Hugest thanks to tablemates Caleb, Kelly, Shannon, Tori, Megan, Kate, and Lauren for their willingness to share from their own experiences in campus organizing and for inspiring this blogger to take some of these same ideas home with me!

- Jonelle Kusminsky

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