Affect 2018 Opening Keynote: Imani Gandy
Channel: Affect
Date: 2018-09-17

I Am Not a Crack Baby: Reproductive Justice and the Politics of Resistance
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In the mid-2000s, a medical diagnosis led me to seek answers about my family background. As an adoptee with an active imagination, I had concocted my origin story when I was just a young girl. It turns out that my origin story was a noxious view of Black motherhood based on societal stereotypes so entrenched in my soul that I didn’t even know they were there until reproductive justice gave me a framework for understanding them. Reproductive justice gave me the tools to understand how I could have internalized such a toxic view of Black motherhood and to resist those stereotypes not just for myself, but for all Black women.
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Full transcript available at https://affectconf.com/talks/imani