Reproductive Rights and Freedom

101 East Archer Street,Tulsa OK 74103

04 March, 2023

Description

“Reproductive Rights and Freedom” will foster public conversation on urgent questions concerning individual rights and bodily autonomy with broad implications for gender equality, community well being, privacy, healthcare, tribal sovereignty, and free speech. Historian Rickie Solinger will deliver a keynote address contextualizing the long history of reproductive justice in the US, from white settlement on the North American continent to the present. A series of panels will explore the reproductive rights landscape in Oklahoma, the challenges and opportunities of engaging these issues in the classroom, and Indigenous approaches to reproductive care. The event will also include a screening of the documentary The Janes (2022) followed by a conversation with co-director Tia Lessin. Please reserve your free ticket to the film screening here. The event is organized by the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and co-sponsored by the University of Tulsa’s Women and Gender Studies Program, Tulsa Institute of Trauma, Adversity and Injustice (TITAN), and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as well as All Souls Unitarian Church.