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The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law and the Center for Race & Gender present Conversations on Reproductive Justice to be held April 9, 2014 from 4:00 to 6:30 on the UC Berkeley campus.

The first panel will feature current and former members of CRRJ's Reproductive Justice Working Group, showcasing various projects that incorporate a reproductive justice analysis. The second panel will be a conversation about the movement, its past and future, between Sujatha Jesudason (Director, CoreAlign) and Loretta Ross (Co-Founder, SisterSong), guided by Samara Azam (Executive Director, ACCESS Women's Health Justice). A low-host reception at a nearby, off-campus location will follow this wheelchair-accessible and family-friendly event.  

For RSVP, detailed schedule, directions, and other information visit reprojustice.berkeley.edu.

Cosponsored by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. 

Kristin Luker, CRRJ Faculty Director, won the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University, which recognizes distinguished achievement in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service among Yale alumni. 

Malika Saada Saar, Director, Human Rights Project for Girls; Special Counsel on Human Rights at The Raben Group, will be Practitioner-in-Residence at Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice March 18^th- 20^th.  Saada Saar gave the Ruth Chance Lecture, "It's Rape:  A Reframing of Domestic Child Trafficking" on March 18^th, which was attended by CRRJ faculty, staff, and students. As a human rights lawyer and advocate, Saada Saar led the effort to shut down Craigslist sex ads that served as the leading site for the trafficking of children for sex, ended the federal practice of shackling pregnant mothers behind bars in U.S. prisons, and successfully advocated for millions in federal funding for treatment services for at-risk families. Newsweek and the Daily Beast have named Saada Saar one of "150 Women Who Shake the World." 

To schedule office hours with Saada Saar, email aceja@law.berkeley.edu

Maybe you care about Reproductive Justice? Or the Non-Profit Industrial Complex? Join us in creating a Zine! We are members of CRRJ's Fall 2013 RJWG. Building a space in the working group to talk about how reproductive justice affected our work and political aims inevitably became a conversation about the ongoing conflicts our political values present in the institutional apparatus of the nonprofit industrial complex. To continue this discourse, Hyperopia will explore the relationship between reproductive justice and the nonprofit industrial complex.  We intend to explore how our lives, our work, our bodies and our identities are molded by the nonprofit industrial complex - and to illuminate the way towards the liberation and reclamation of our bodies and our politics. We invite you to share your stories, essays, articles, art - or anything that might fit on a piece of paper - about the work you do, how you do it, and how you stay resilient.  

Submit to: hyperopiazine@riseup.net, by April 1st, 2014. If you are not able to email your submission, or have any questions, please call us at 510-629-1456.