Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Sep 2020 Open Access

We are BRAVE: Expanding Reproductive Justice Discourse through Embodied Rhetoric and Civic Practice

Roberta Hunte ; Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly

Abstract

In this article, we share the example of our recent community-based performance project on reproductive justice, We are BRAVE, to serve as a model of how community-based performance can be an embodied strategy for social change. We draw from the work of scholars of feminist rhetoric, community-based performance, and reproductive justice. In sharing the example of We are BRAVE, we show how using community-centered, performative storytelling as embodied rhetoric can be an effective mode of public and political persuasion.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2020-09-01
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10.59236/rjv20i2pp102-120
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