Radical Reproductive Justice by Loretta Ross

Author:Loretta Ross
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936932047
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2017-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

Our emancipation from this binary two-step of reproductive oppression through reproductive justice theory will present a delicate but everchanging choreography of control and location. We are using our power—claiming our voices for ourselves—speaking for ourselves. We no longer will be a reflection of liberal feminism with a little difference. What may be most startling about RJT is our indifference as to how it is received by those who struggle to understand their own realities, much less ours, because we are refusing to dance that way anymore. No more docile bodies. Because in fact, we have been dancing with our oppressors in a circular two-step that is getting us nowhere. The music, instead of lifting our feet, is controlling our movements in that we have become its object, rather than the other way around.

Our resistance exalts the passion of Zora Neale Hurston—“I dance wildly within myself; I yell within, I whoop. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum”77—while others only hear what we feel and can only guess what we know. Reproductive justice theorists prefer to become our own subjects, without permission and without apology. We are decentering those alienating realities and putting ourselves in the center of the lens. As well as being different, we are indifferent.

Nevertheless, our masks of conformity are never static; masks affect everything around us, mutating as survival dictates. The disguises reveal their own paradox: if they serve the needs of our oppressors, do they serve our needs as well as we think they do? The masks may alienate us from ourselves so thoroughly that we support their goals without fulfilling our own. Irigaray poetically advises:

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