
Bodies Under Siege | Sian Norris & Edna Bonhomme
The Verso Podcast
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The Linkages of Power and Resource
I don't roll in those circles at all. So I cannot get into the minds and hearts of people oligarchs or Koch brothers or any of those people. But what I would say is that if we cannot decide what we can do with our bodies, whether or not we can have children, how many children we can have, can we really be free? And I think that the attack on people's ability to reproduce has been going on for a long time. Under chattel slavery, reproducing Black people in the future free labor force was profitable to those labor-ling class that relied upon their labor. If you say, well, if you have a child, then therefore you can
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