Community-led research for reproductive justice: Exploring the SisterLove Georgia Medication Abortion project
IntroductionWhile reproductive injustice indicators are improving globally, they are worsening in the United States particularly for Black and other marginalized communities. Eugenics and obstetric violence against low-income and communities of color create well-founded distrust of sexual and reprod...
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| author | Elizabeth A. Mosley Sequoia Ayala Zainab Jah Zainab Jah Tiffany Hailstorks Tiffany Hailstorks Dázon Dixon Diallo Natalie Hernandez Kwajelyn Jackson Indya Hairston Kelli S. Hall Kelli S. Hall |
| author_facet | Elizabeth A. Mosley Sequoia Ayala Zainab Jah Zainab Jah Tiffany Hailstorks Tiffany Hailstorks Dázon Dixon Diallo Natalie Hernandez Kwajelyn Jackson Indya Hairston Kelli S. Hall Kelli S. Hall |
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| description | IntroductionWhile reproductive injustice indicators are improving globally, they are worsening in the United States particularly for Black and other marginalized communities. Eugenics and obstetric violence against low-income and communities of color create well-founded distrust of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Transformational, reparative ways of conducting SRH research are needed.Proposed principles of community-led research for reproductive justiceDrawing on our collective experience as reproductive justice leaders, SRH researchers, and clinicians, we propose the following principles of community-led research for reproductive justice: 1) Center the marginalized community members most affected by SRH inequities as leaders of research; 2) Facilitate equitable, collaborative partnership through all phases of SRH research; 3) Honor multiple ways of knowing (experiential, cultural, empirical) for knowledge justice and cross-directional learning across the team; 4) Build on strengths (not deficits) within the community; 5) Implement the tenets of reproductive justice including structural-level analysis and the human rights framework; 6) Prioritize disseminating useful findings to community members first then to other audiences; 7) Take action to address social and reproductive injustices.SisterLove's community-led georgia medication abortion projectWe offer the community-led Georgia Medication Abortion (GAMA) Project by reproductive justice organization SisterLove from 2018–2022 as a case study to demonstrate these principles along with the strengths and challenges of reproductive justice research.DiscussionCommunity-led reproductive justice research offers innovative and transformational methods for truly advancing SRH in an era of increasing policy restrictions and decreasing access to care. Yet existing funding, research administrative, and publishing systems will require structural change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-890744983f064b8f985f6f48b9ad2f952022-12-22T02:35:25ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Global Women's Health2673-50592022-08-01310.3389/fgwh.2022.969182969182Community-led research for reproductive justice: Exploring the SisterLove Georgia Medication Abortion projectElizabeth A. Mosley0Sequoia Ayala1Zainab Jah2Zainab Jah3Tiffany Hailstorks4Tiffany Hailstorks5Dázon Dixon Diallo6Natalie Hernandez7Kwajelyn Jackson8Indya Hairston9Kelli S. Hall10Kelli S. Hall11Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United StatesSisterLove, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United StatesSisterLove, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United StatesNational Birth Equity Collaborative, Washington, DC, United StatesCenter for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United StatesDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United StatesSisterLove, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United StatesCenter for Maternal Health Equity, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United StatesFeminist Women's Health Center, Atlanta, GA, United StatesSisterLove, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United StatesCenter for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United StatesDepartment of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United StatesIntroductionWhile reproductive injustice indicators are improving globally, they are worsening in the United States particularly for Black and other marginalized communities. Eugenics and obstetric violence against low-income and communities of color create well-founded distrust of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Transformational, reparative ways of conducting SRH research are needed.Proposed principles of community-led research for reproductive justiceDrawing on our collective experience as reproductive justice leaders, SRH researchers, and clinicians, we propose the following principles of community-led research for reproductive justice: 1) Center the marginalized community members most affected by SRH inequities as leaders of research; 2) Facilitate equitable, collaborative partnership through all phases of SRH research; 3) Honor multiple ways of knowing (experiential, cultural, empirical) for knowledge justice and cross-directional learning across the team; 4) Build on strengths (not deficits) within the community; 5) Implement the tenets of reproductive justice including structural-level analysis and the human rights framework; 6) Prioritize disseminating useful findings to community members first then to other audiences; 7) Take action to address social and reproductive injustices.SisterLove's community-led georgia medication abortion projectWe offer the community-led Georgia Medication Abortion (GAMA) Project by reproductive justice organization SisterLove from 2018–2022 as a case study to demonstrate these principles along with the strengths and challenges of reproductive justice research.DiscussionCommunity-led reproductive justice research offers innovative and transformational methods for truly advancing SRH in an era of increasing policy restrictions and decreasing access to care. Yet existing funding, research administrative, and publishing systems will require structural change.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2022.969182/fullcommunity-led researchcommunity-based participatory researchreproductive justiceabortionreproductive coercionmedical distrust |
| spellingShingle | Elizabeth A. Mosley Sequoia Ayala Zainab Jah Zainab Jah Tiffany Hailstorks Tiffany Hailstorks Dázon Dixon Diallo Natalie Hernandez Kwajelyn Jackson Indya Hairston Kelli S. Hall Kelli S. Hall Community-led research for reproductive justice: Exploring the SisterLove Georgia Medication Abortion project Frontiers in Global Women's Health community-led research community-based participatory research reproductive justice abortion reproductive coercion medical distrust |
| title | Community-led research for reproductive justice: Exploring the SisterLove Georgia Medication Abortion project |
| title_full | Community-led research for reproductive justice: Exploring the SisterLove Georgia Medication Abortion project |
| title_fullStr | Community-led research for reproductive justice: Exploring the SisterLove Georgia Medication Abortion project |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community-led research for reproductive justice: Exploring the SisterLove Georgia Medication Abortion project |
| title_short | Community-led research for reproductive justice: Exploring the SisterLove Georgia Medication Abortion project |
| title_sort | community led research for reproductive justice exploring the sisterlove georgia medication abortion project |
| topic | community-led research community-based participatory research reproductive justice abortion reproductive coercion medical distrust |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2022.969182/full |
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