You can have a fight or you can have a conversation and you get to decide which one works better

to fit your strategic goal because if your goal is to have a fight there's a lot of ways

to do that but if your goal is to build a human rights movement you have to change how

you weaponize your trauma and your language in the movement.

Loretta J. Ross has been active in the movement for reproductive justice since the 1970s.

In fact she and her colleagues actually coined the term in 1994 creating a new framework

for activists that went far beyond the pro-choice and pro-life debate.

She is one of the founders of Sister Song, a nonprofit that supports the reproductive human

rights of people of color.

Her prolific career is difficult to summarize but I'll try.

She was the director of the Women of Color program for the National Organization for Women.

The program director of the Black Women's Health Imperative, the director of projects

for the National Anti-Clan Network with a focus on neo-Nazi involvement in anti-abortion

violence and the co-author of undivided rights, Women of Color organizing for reproductive

justice and reproductive justice and introduction and is currently teaching courses at Smith College

and publicly on white supremacy and call out culture and all of this only scratches the

surface.

Today, Loretta will share her personal and political journey through the last six decades

and what it's taught her about solidarity and about how we create a strong movement

that is dedicated to moving together.

Hi Loretta, thank you so much for being willing to talk to us today.

This is such an honor.

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