Joyful Resistance: Queerness + Reproductive Justice
Thursday, June 26th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This Pride month MACC is leaning into joy and resistance. Join your network for a panel of MACC members and local leaders moderated by writer, artist, scholar, and educator Katie Robinson. MACC stands for Reproductive Justice and Queer Justice. This panel will celebrate these movements by exploring their intersections, digging into what Reproductive Justice looks like for our local communities, and sharing how joy factors into our panelists’ work and lives. We look forward to hosting you in this conversation!
Note: This session is free and exclusively for MACC Members!
Meet your Moderator:
For over ten years, Katie Robinson (any pronouns) has engaged the intersections of the arts, relational skills, and psychologies of trauma, harm, and healing. This has looked like creating and sharing literary, visual, and theater art, crafting and delivering tailored trainings and workshops, generating trans-ontological scholarship, and facilitating groups working toward racial justice and abolition. Katie is a writer, facilitator, educator, scholar, and interdisciplinary artist devoted to the exploration of what is present and possible outside of the white supremacist colonial imagination. They are currently a PhD candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where they are writing a dissertation at the intersections of depth psychology, decoloniality, and police and prison abolition.
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Meet your Panelists:
ShaVunda Brown is the Communications and Advocacy Director at Our Justice where she works to uplift the intersections of abortion access and black liberation. She is a mom of two talented and beautiful children and has been a fierce advocate for reproductive justice since 2014. ShaVunda is an internationally recognized winning spoken word artist, a Hip Hop Artist, actress, singer, organizer, and former co-host and creator of Power Perspectives on KRSM, KFAI and formerly one of a few collaborators/hosts of the MPR podcast Little Moments Count. She writes to empower and shed light on raw truths, with a sharp social consciousness. Using her knowledge of African diasporic spirituality, history, mythos and the southern folklore of her upbringing, she weaves stories and new visions of liberation.
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Hello, my name is Iggy (he/him)! I have worked in both the public health and nonprofit sectors in the past and here at the Annex I get the best of both worlds. I hope to support this organization and this community by promoting equity and access in all that we do and ensuring everyone who engages with us feels welcomed, safe, and informed.
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A dedicated public health professional with over 10 years of experience in sexual and reproductive healthcare and non-profits. As the Clinic Director at the Annex Teen Clinic, they are passionate about fostering an inclusive and compassionate healthcare environment where every patient feels seen and valued. With a strong background and a deep commitment to reproductive justice, bodily autonomy, LGBTQ+ healthcare, and sex education, Molly believes in removing barriers to healthcare and improving access to comprehensive reproductive and sexual healthcare and education that empowers young people to make safe, informed choices for themselves.
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