Breeding a Nation
Ordinary Equality
Acast Creative Studios
4.0 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
“The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, and the domestic slave breeding industry has never left us. It’s at the foundation of a system that continues to oppress and constrict female bodies. Particularly Black bodies.”
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| 0:00.0 | And so when you do research based on what black women did for ourselves versus what was done to us, |
| 0:10.0 | you emerge with a totally different narrative through the lens of black women. |
| 0:15.0 | Because the stories that the A&Ts tell is always as if they're the masters, they're in control, they impose |
| 0:21.6 | anything and we're just too dumb to resist. |
| 0:28.6 | This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. |
| 0:36.6 | It's a decision that she must make for herself. |
| 0:42.5 | From Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina, dedicated women marched. |
| 0:48.3 | Abortion is fast becoming the new political fault line. |
| 0:55.0 | Alabama's government. the new political fault line. My body, my choice! My body, my choice! My body, my choice! |
| 0:57.0 | Alabama's governor has signed the nation's strictest abortion ban into law. |
| 1:02.0 | The Human Life Protection Act outlaws the procedure |
| 1:05.0 | except when the mother's life is at risk. |
| 1:07.0 | This bill is not about pro-life or the right to life. |
| 1:12.4 | This bill is about control. |
| 1:14.3 | We will not go back. |
| 1:15.6 | And we, the people of the United States of America, documented or undocumented, are |
| 1:23.6 | having abortions legal or not. |
| 1:26.6 | This court will never stop us. |
| 1:33.4 | This is a crucial topic, but we'd like to start off by giving a content warning about this episode. |
| 1:43.5 | We're going to be talking about |
| 1:44.6 | sexual assault and reproductive coercion. Last week, we discussed the unknown history of women |
| 1:51.5 | controlling their fertility throughout the ages, and specifically on this soil. That story isn't |
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