We Are Pregnant With Freedom - Black Feminist Storytelling for Reproductive Justice

"Stacie Selmon McCormick's unique offering is her focus on storytelling, and specifically on Black women's testimonies about their own reproductive journeys. Her collaboration with the Afiya Center grounds the book in community, weaving together scholarship, theory, and lived experience in service of imagining new futures. A fascinating, engaging, and impeccably researched read."--Dani McClain, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

"We Are Pregnant with Freedom is exquisitely multidisciplinary, using a wide variety of cultural texts--from poetry and plays to films and sculptures--to investigate multiple forms of reproductive injustice. Among other subjects, McCormick's work sheds new light on our understanding of disability justice, carcerality, and anti-Blackness and the afterlives of slavery. This fascinating, complex, and truly singular book resists categorization."--Khiara M. Bridges, author of Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stacie Elizabeth Selmon McCormick
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.07.2025
• EAN: 9780520422544
• ISBN: 978-0-520-42254-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, MEDICAL / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control, Reproductive Medicine, Gender studies, gender groups, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, Gender studies: transgender & intersex