Data Justice

What is data justice? Data justice recognizes that the types of data the government collects and relies on are insufficient for understanding community needs, experiences and, equally important, desires. These data do not represent communities in ways that communities would represent themselves – and government data often entirely erases some communities due to “the problem” of small sample size (e.g., Pacific Islanders) or using too broad, and ultimately meaningless, categories (e.g., Asian).

RESEARCH AND DATA JUSTICE READING LIST

[Book chapter] White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tukufu Zuberi (Introduction)

[Article] Fact Check: Your Demand for Statistical Proof is Racist by Candice Lanius (Link)

[Video lecture, Length – 1:47:16] Data Empires, Then and Now: Excavating Colonial Data Regimes by Roopika Rasam (YouTube)

[Book chapter] Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (Introduction)

[Podcast, Length – 57:22] Becoming Data Episode 1: Data & Humanity by Data & Society (Podcast)

[Report] Introduction to Research Justice by The Data Center (Link)

[Article] Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities by Eve Tuck (Link)

[Article] Extra-activism: counter-mapping and data justice by Dorothy Kidd (Link)

[Article] Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion by Max Liboiron (Link)

[Report] Data Genocide of American Indians and Alaska Natives in COVID-19 Data by Urban Indian Health Institute (Link)

What is Reproductive Justice?

SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.

The Herstory of Reproductive Justice (RJ)

Indigenous women, women of color, and trans* people have always fought for Reproductive Justice, but the term was invented in 1994. Right before attending the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, where the entire world agreed that the individual right to plan your own family must be central to global development, a group of black women gathered in Chicago in June of 1994. They recognized that the women’s rights movement, led by and representing middle class and wealthy white women, could not defend the needs of women of color and other marginalized women and trans* people. We needed to lead our own national movement to uplift the needs of the most marginalized women, families, and communities.

These women named themselves Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice, and RJ was born.  Rooted in the internationally-accepted human rights framework created by the United Nations, Reproductive Justice combines reproductive rights and social justice. The progenitors of RJ launched the movement by publishing a historic full-page statement with 800+ signatures in The Washington Post and Roll Call. Just three years later, in 1997, SisterSong was formed to create a national, multi-ethnic RJ movement.

1. Oregon Health Authority : Resources for Accessing Other Services : Reproductive Health Provider Resources : State of Oregon

2. Healthy Relationships - Talking With Your Parents About Sex (amaze.org)

3. It's Your Future, You can Protect it (cdc.gov)

4. Abortion & Reproductive Rights Supreme Court Cases :: Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center

5. Reproductive Justice — Sister Song

Click to Access: Bibliography & Further Reading Gender Affirming Care South Coast Health Coalition Presentation 2023