I came into the project of care ethics, reproductive justice, and Black women’s inner workings as a daughter of a Black teenage mother. Teen mom is a political category, born from deviant narratives used to pathologize Black adolescent girls. My teen mom was a mother who—against all the social pressure, misogyny, and antiblackness—pursued motherhood and her...
The Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade has sparked a domino effect of states attempting to enact the most reproductively oppressive laws in a generation. Primarily, these states have created criminal penalties, ranging from large fines to life imprisonment—even a surge of drafted legislation demanding the death penalty for pregnant people who...