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Jasmine Fledderjohann
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Prof in Sociology & Social Justice. Research food, gender, repro justice, digital inequities. She/her. Former ALS/MND carer. Projects: wp.lancs.ac.uk/foodequity & wp.lancs.ac.uk/digi. Usual disclaimers.
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2027 AAG Annual Meeting
FEBRUARY 8, 2027, 8:30AM EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA) – FEBRUARY 12, 2027, 5:30PM EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA)
Session Title: Geographies of Abortion Care: Embodied Resistance, Spatialities, and Solidarities
Organizers: Dr. Mantha Katsikana (Faculty of Health, York University) & Dr. Amanda De Lisio (Faculty of Health, York University)
Abortion has become a central focus of public and academic debate, particularly amid the global rise of far-right popularism and conservative politics that seek to undermine the reproductive agency of birthing people through legislative reforms and criminalization. These attacks on reproductive freedom are intensified by neoliberal austerity and the withdrawal of social protections (Di Chiro, 2008), along with the growing financialization of everyday life (Strauss, 2024). Together, these dynamics deepen existing crises of care (Fraser, 2016) and disproportionately harm birthing people; especially those who do not conform to white, cisheteropatriarchal norms of motherhood (Beutin, 2023; Harper-Shipman, 2026; Ross & Solinger, 2017).
Although abortion rights have long dominated liberal feminists’ agendas, the interventions of Black feminists through the Reproductive Justice movement and framework (Bond-Theriault, 2024; Ross & Solinger, 2017; Ross, 2016) have illuminated the intersectional dimensions of reproductive life, from contraception and healthcare access to birth and parenting. The Reproductive Justice framework has since been widely adapted and expanded through grassroots movements and research that demonstrates the realities of obstetric violence, medical racism, and colonialism on birthing people’s encounters with healthcare (Van Der Waal et al., 2025; Assis et al., 2022; Fletcher, 2016). [truncated by character limit]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hntwf2576jwlsth6fp2dyjwh/bafkreihxxoncitgaerjsrg4hyjvbrt7kzkmn4gbp2dgx3bk2ixzywlazii)
![Emerging as broader patterns on an international context, the geographical analyses of abortion care tend to conceptualize the spatial dimension of abortion in terms of site-specific barriers across scales—particularly around domestic and cross border mobility and travel to clinics, healthcare spaces and the home; the urban vs. rural disparities in the provision of services; as well as the development of transnational activist networks that transgress border and geographies of the nation-state. Building on these gaps and critiques, Schurr et al. (2025) propose an agenda for “reproductive justice geographies” that not only applies the Reproductive Justice framework more critically, but also foregrounds spatial, environmental, and abolitionist justice, along with intersectional feminist political struggles (ibid). At the same time, non-geographical scholarship has documented the persistent impacts of colonial medical and obstetric violence (Shaheen-Hussain et al., 2023; Odhiambo et al., 2022; Nwoke & Leung, 2021; Palomo et al., 2021; Bi & Clusty, 2015), which disproportionately and intergenerationally affect Indigenous and racialized birthing people (McKenzie et al., 2022; Stote, 2022; Carranza Ko, 2018) across the world. Additionally, non-geographical scholarship has been addressing and documenting the transformative practices and impact of organizing in Latin American countries and the Caribbean (Alvarez and Veldhuis, 2026; Vacarezza & Burton, 2023; Assis & Larrea, 2022) as well as Ireland and Poland (Cullen & Korolczuk, 2019; Fischer, 2019; Calkin 2018; ), particularly in the context of abortion related legislation reforms during the last 20 years, along with translational organizing and the dissemination of knowledge particularly around self managed abortion (Braine, 2023). [trunacted by character limit]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hntwf2576jwlsth6fp2dyjwh/bafkreiehfwg5txadz6vvihwrkc3wvosazbubvnrzuqbms6altxcz4pjavy)
