Mothers of Reproductive Justice turns the clock back to a 1994 lunch table, where twelve Black women gathered and transformed the conversation from choice to justice. They coined reproductive justice: a framework that affirms the right to have children, not have children, to raise them in safe and healthy environments, and to experience and enjoy bodily autonomy.
Through the voices of movement founders, a practicing midwife, and a new generation of organizers, this audio documentary produced by Paloma Moreno Jimenez moves between past and present. It traces a living lineage from enslaved birth workers to today’s battles over maternal care and midwifery access in the South.
At its heart, this is a story about bodies, memory, and resistance. About how movements are born in lived experience.