Roland Jones highlighted the vital work of reclaiming and Indigenizing sexual and reproductive health care teachings, practices, and tools as an act of resistance to the ongoing legacy of colonization:
“Translating the information I’ve learned around sexual and reproductive health care using a culturally appropriate lens and incorporating these conversations into my Indigenous community is a form of resistance.”
Jones further emphasized the need to strengthen links between Indigenous land sovereignty and the ways we care for our bodies:
“The land can connect us, our values can connect us, our love for sexual and reproductive health can connect us.”
Sarahí Maldonado, member of feminist network Las Comadres, outlined the landscape of SRHR in Ecuador, highlighting the struggle against the criminalization of abortion. She traced the history of
Las Comadres’ work as they encountered the limits of simply providing access to information about safe abortion and shifted their work towards facilitating access to affordable drugs/medication for self-managed abortion, particularly for marginalized women, trans and non-binary people who otherwise could not access abortion services.
Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah closed the evening session with a powerful call for dreaming and collective care in struggles against systemic violence:
“Our dreams are the blueprint for the future we are fighting for…It’s more important than ever to lean into our dreaming and our radical imagination to push back against the status quo.”
Debbie identified the urgent need to strengthen transnational solidarity in the face of mounting transnational fascism, speaking specifically to links between 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in Ghana and in the Canadian diaspora who are fighting anti-2SLGBTQIA+ legislation in Ghana.
Roland Jones highlighted the vital work of reclaiming and Indigenizing sexual and reproductive health care teachings, practices, and tools as an act of resistance to the ongoing legacy of colonization:
“Translating the information I’ve learned around sexual and reproductive health care using a culturally appropriate lens and incorporating these conversations into my Indigenous community is a form of resistance.”
Jones further emphasized the need to strengthen links between Indigenous land sovereignty and the ways we care for our bodies:
“The land can connect us, our values can connect us, our love for sexual and reproductive health can connect us.”
Sarahí Maldonado, member of feminist network Las Comadres, outlined the landscape of SRHR in Ecuador, highlighting the struggle against the criminalization of abortion. She traced the history of
Las Comadres’ work as they encountered the limits of simply providing access to information about safe abortion and shifted their work towards facilitating access to affordable drugs/medication for self-managed abortion, particularly for marginalized women, trans and non-binary people who otherwise could not access abortion services.
Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah closed the evening session with a powerful call for dreaming and collective care in struggles against systemic violence:
“Our dreams are the blueprint for the future we are fighting for…It’s more important than ever to lean into our dreaming and our radical imagination to push back against the status quo.”
Debbie identified the urgent need to strengthen transnational solidarity in the face of mounting transnational fascism, speaking specifically to links between 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in Ghana and in the Canadian diaspora who are fighting anti-2SLGBTQIA+ legislation in Ghana.
