ABSTRACT
Since the 1980s, Black women and women of color seeking solidarity in resisting reproductive coercion and violence have been able to turn to the reproductive justice movement. The most visible face of the movement is SisterSong, a national coalition representing more than eighty organizations that for over a decade, under the leadership of Black women including veteran activist and contributor Loretta Ross, has created a voice for women of color activists in the wider reproductive rights community. At SisterSong's conference in 2011, thirty birth activists from around the United States came together to discuss the need for the reproductive justice movement to embrace birth oppression as a central concern for women of color. Although early white natural birth activists saw themselves as reinvigorating the traditional knowledge of granny midwives, their claim to this legacy presents a false narrative of white midwives following in the footsteps of a vanishing class of Black midwives.
