The following article is a rendering of the opening keynote speech given by Dr. Kimberly Harper at the 2023 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) Symposium that took place in Minneapolis, MN on October 13–14, 2023.

Introduction to the Special Issue In Living Color: Amplifying Racial Justice Work in RHM

An Annotated Bibliography on Rhetorics of Reproductive Justice is a project motivated by several overlapping exigencies. When we began our collaborative research and writing for this project in the fall of 2019, we were unaware that in the months to follow we would face a global health pandemic, accompanied by the reignition of the Black Lives Matter movement.