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We Are Pregnant with Freedom
Black Feminist Storytelling for Reproductive Justice
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
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Situated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormick's lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black sexual and reproductive liberation through the storytelling work of those most marginalized in reproductive justice research and discourse. The book recounts McCormick's loss of twin sons to stillbirth, her near-fatal experience with preeclampsia, and her subsequent reproductive justice research and advocacy work with the Afiya Center, a Black-led reproductive justice organization in Texas. Its multidisciplinary narrative shatters the silences wrought by stigma and historical erasure, ultimately proposing a new grammar of reproductive justice that can serve the people as a vehicle for community building, healing, and bodily liberation.
Situated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormick's lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black sexual and reproductive liberation through the storytelling work of those most marginalized in reproductive justice research and discourse. The book recounts McCormick's loss of twin sons to stillbirth, her near-fatal experience with preeclampsia, and her subsequent reproductive justice research and advocacy work with the Afiya Center, a Black-led reproductive justice organization in Texas. Its multidisciplinary narrative shatters the silences wrought by stigma and historical erasure, ultimately proposing a new grammar of reproductive justice that can serve the people as a vehicle for community building, healing, and bodily liberation.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Stacie Elizabeth Selmon McCormick
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.
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CONTENTS
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CONTENTS
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FOREWORD
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER ONE Toward a Radical We
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CHAPTER TWO Reproductive Justice
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CHAPTER THREE Rememory
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CHAPTER FOUR Imagining Livable Black Futures
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CHAPTER FIVE Abolition Medicine
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CHAPTER SIX Policing Black Birth
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EPILOGUE You Won’t Break My Soul
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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eBook published on:
August 26, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9780520398801
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