Visualizing Birth Stories from the Margin: Toward a Reproductive Justice Model of Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetoric Society Quarterly Jan 2020

Visualizing Birth Stories from the Margin: Toward a Reproductive Justice Model of Rhetorical Analysis

Shui-yin Sharon Yam

Abstract

Through a rhetorical analysis of Romper’s YouTube series Doula Diaries, I demonstrate how the reproductive justice framework helps illuminate the need for an intersectional approach to advance birth justice. While the video series brings obstetric racism to light, portrays empowering birth experiences among women of color, and prioritizes the shared experiences and communities among non-normative birthing people, it falls short on supporting the rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ people to have children. I further argue for rhetoric scholars to adopt the reproductive justice framework in order to more critically interrogate how intersecting social forces and power structures influence the reproductive lives of individuals across positionalities.

Journal: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published: 2020-01-01
DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2019.1682182
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality

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