Events

This event centers Black birthing practices and care within the broader framework of reproductive justice. It brings together doulas, midwives, scholars, and community advocates to explore how Black birthing persons and their kin have nurtured practices of care, resistance, and healing despite systemic inequities. Through conversation and storytelling, the panelists will reflect on birth not only as a deeply personal experience but also as a site of political struggle, community-based practices and collective empowerment rooted in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom and justice.

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University is hosting a multidisciplinary conference on Transnational Desires and Childhoods of Empire as a means of continuing a critical, multidisciplinary dialogue around Black childhoods and childhoods of color. We seek to convene scholars, writers, practitioners, artists, and advocates for children interested in wrestling with the tensions around diasporas and immigrations globally especially as we have seen a rise in nationalism(s) within the US and abroad. In Decolonizing Diasporas, Yomaira Figueroa writes about the importance of decolonial thinking and writing when revisiting the histories of imperialisms that have essentialized ideas around nation, language, race, and ethnicity.