Journal article
Progressive Reckonings, Indigenous Feminist Praxis, and Resisting the Common Roots of Reproductive and Climate Injustice
International journal of feminist approaches to bioethics, v 18(1), pp 61-86
01 Apr 2025
Abstract
White progressives in the United States are currently experiencing two profound reckonings that typically are assumed to be unrelated. On one hand, the Dobbs verdict overturned the assumption that the right to choose with respect to abortion is too socially entrenched, juridically settled, or politically sacred to be denied. On the other hand, climatological conditions for possibly having a comfortable existence are increasingly under threat in locales in which residents have come to expect to enjoy secure lives and livelihoods. This article highlights what Indigenous communities across the United States already know well. Namely, threats to reproductive freedom and climate crisis are neither new nor separable. Both phenomena have common colonial roots that continue to proliferate, each a result of the disruption and destruction of Indigenous kinship assemblages. Indeed, in aiming to remediate their current reckonings, white progressives routinely (if unthinkingly) support forms of settler-state violence that perpetuate reproductive and climate injustice in Indigenous communities. The authors appeal to white progressives, notably including white feminists, to embrace the proposition that their reckonings cannot be properly understood nor successfully addressed without prioritizing Indigenous futurity. They call for centering forms of Indigenous feminist praxis that facilitate robust Indigenous coalitions of anti-colonial resistance.
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- Title
- Progressive Reckonings, Indigenous Feminist Praxis, and Resisting the Common Roots of Reproductive and Climate Injustice
- Creators
- Andrew Frederick Smith - Drexel UniversityShelbi Nahwilet Meissner - TubmanMercer Gary - Drexel Univ, Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA USAJoel Michael Reynolds - Geortown Univ, Philosophy & Disabil Studies, Washington, DC USA
- Publication Details
- International journal of feminist approaches to bioethics, v 18(1), pp 61-86
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Number of pages
- 26
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science (BEES); English and Philosophy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001498607000003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105007893851
- Other Identifier
- 991022057000304721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Ethics
- Social Sciences, Biomedical
- Women's Studies