Media Appearances
(Partial Listing of Media Appearances & Interviews)
Prof. Loretta J. Ross is combating cancel culture with a popular class at Smith College.
Is There Room for Redemption in Our Cancel Culture? | Amanpour and Company
Professor Discusses Why She's Calling In Call Out Culture | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Feminist Prof. Loretta J. Ross Is Done With Cancel Culture
Elle Magazine 5 Experienced Activists on What First-Time Demonstrators Need to Know, Elle Magazine, January 20, 2017
Rewire News Group Loretta Ross on Is It Time for a Black Feminist to Head the NAACP?
Speakout with Tim Wise podcast Race and Reproduction" Podcast with Tim Wise, 2/10/18
The Bill Newman Show War Tax Resistance Radio Interview, November 1, 2017, WHMP Radio
94.1 KPFA Women's March on Washington, KPFA, January 19, 2017
Massachusetts Daily Collegian Calling IN the Calling OUT Culture, March 10, 2016
91.7 KALW Radio Women of Color, Reproductive Justice, and the Supreme Court, KALW Talk Radio, June 20, 2016
Amherst Wire A New Approach to Racism: Calling In Instead of Calling Out, March 11, 2016
BlogTalk Radio BlogTalk Radio with Janice Peak Graham, "Trusting Black Women," November 7, 2015
Bluestocking Magazine Interview with Loretta J. Ross Bluestocking Interview on Reproductive Justice and Burnout, April 25, 2016
Making Contact Radio Loretta Ross on Trust Black Women and the Fight for Reproductive Justice, Making Contact Radio, April 9, 2015
Rewire News Group Loretta Ross On Anti-Choicers, the Media, and Race
Making Contact Radio Making Contact: Organizing for Reproductive Justice and Incarcerated Women
The Body Is Not An Apology Using Consciousness as a Weapon: The Wisdom of Loretta Ross
Democracy Now! Democracy NOW! Fights on Abortion in Virginia & Georgia March 8, 2012
Breast Cancer Action Loretta Ross Three Decades of Advocating for the Health and Rights of Women of Color
Feministing Loretta Ross says Stupak is a human rights violation
National Advocates for Pregnant Women -- In Defense of Roe Conference -- 1989
Black Agenda Report Are Anti-Abortion Groups Targeting Black Women? by Jill Nelson
The Boston Globe, Loretta Ross Doesn’t Believe in Cancel Culture
Shondaland interview: Reproductive Justice Advocate Loretta Ross talks to Shondaland about why she’s spent 50 years fighting for human rights and what’s next for her movement.
On the Issues with Michele Goodwin, Fifteen Minutes of Feminism: Majority Rule #2, Our Bodies Are Respected (with Loretta Ross)
Facing South interview: Reproductive justice pioneer Loretta Ross on strategies for the post-Roe South
Dissent Magazine interview: A Fundamental Violation of Basic Human Rights
PoliticsNation June 25, 2012, with REVEREND AL SHARPTON, MSNBC HOST and Guests: Jonathan Capehart, Jim McDermott; Ted Strickland, Luis Gutierrez, Lorella Praeli, Loretta Ross, Laura Bassett
Occupy the Airwaves a wide-ranging discussion including calling in vs. calling out and the movement for reproductive justice.
University of Buffalo appearance: "Ross offers advice for dealing with the ‘calling out culture’ - UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff - University at Buffalo"
Our Bodies, Our Doctors January 2021 “The Road Ahead for Roe - Panel recording”
Eastern Connecticut State University “ECSU Panel Conversation on Race and its Impact on Athletes”
RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan podcast “Loretta Ross: Callout and cancel culture don't serve social justice”
The Takeaway podcast “Is Calling in the New Calling Out?”
Radicals and Revolutionaries Lab podcast on Reproductive Justice, August 17, 2020
Connecticut Public Radio WNPR "Long-Time Activist Loretta Ross Speaks Against the Call-Out Culture," WNPR, August 13, 2020
American Studies Association Official "Reproductive Futurism: A Conversation with Loretta Ross and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, June 17, 2020
Ms Magazine "White Supremacy in the Trump Era," Carrie Baker, 6/30/2020
Vox Magazine "Why the Term "BIPOC" is So Complicated, Explained by Linguistics," Constance Grady, Vox Magazine, June 30, 2020
Deep End Friends podcast "Loretta Ross: Deep End Podcast" March 29, 2020
Smith Program for the Study of Women and Gender "Reinterpreting Margaret Sanger Through a Black Feminist Lens," Smith College, February 13, 2020
On the Media, New York Public Radio "Going Beyond Roe," On the Media, New York Public Radio, December 13, 2019
New England Public Radio "In Smith Swastika Incident, One Professor Asks, 'Can We Stay Focused on the Fascists?'", New England Public Radio, November 27, 2019
Wisconsin Public Radio "Is Woke Culture Hurting Our National Discourse?" Wisconsin Public Radio, November 8, 2019
BBC Uncomfortable Podcast "Uncomfortable: How to Manage Offensive Opinions in a Pluralistic World," BBC, October 28, 2019
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee "Sticky Fingers, Sticky Conversations: BBQ and Reproductive Justice: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," August 14, 2019
Publications
(PARTIAL LISTING)
Some of these articles or videos were written and/or produced by Loretta J. Ross; others are written or produced about me. I've been publishing articles since 1980, so it would be difficult to compile a complete list. You can find more at Smith College collections: Loretta J. Ross papers
I Refuse to Give Up Hope After Roe
Rewire News Group New Reproductive Justice Guide Is a Powerful Vision for the Future, April 3, 2017, Rewire
Center for American Progress Reproductive Justice Beyond Biology, Center for American Progress, March 15, 2017
Bitch Magazine Mourning Norma McCorvey: The Story of Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade, Bitch Magazine, March 2, 2017
Rewire News Group Women's Rights are Human Rights and the Women's March on Washington, January 19, 2017
The Feminist Wire Childhood Sexual Abuse: Paying It Forward Instead of Looking Back, The Feminist Wire, October 25, 2016
Center For American Progress Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice, by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena R. Gutierrez
Shorttakes on Public Feminism: Katha Pollit's Pro Let’s Talk about Sex, Not Abortion by Loretta J. Ross
Fighting White Supremacy and White Privilege to Build a Human Rights Movement by Loretta J. Ross
Rewire News Group Reproductive Justice at the United Nations
On the Issues Magazine Loretta Ross on Justice Feminism
Ms Magazine List of Loretta J. Ross writings at Ms. Magazine Blogs
On The Issues Magazine Loretta Ross Unmasks Black Anti-Abortion Message, Media Spin
Political Research Associates White Supremacy in the 1990s by Loretta J. Ross
A Radical Profeminist Mobilizing for Reproductive Justice by Loretta J. Ross
Rewire News Group Race, Class, and Rights in Mississippi: How A Reproductive Justice Campaign Can Save the Pill and Save the Vote
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book, section by Loretta J. Ross
Rewire News Group Defeating Personhood: A Critical But Incomplete Victory for Reproductive Justice by Loretta J. Ross
On The Issues A Simple Human Right: The History Of Black Women And Abortion
Town & Country Can You Be Too Rich to Be Canceled?
The Forge Don’t Let the Chain of Freedom Break at Your Link
Yes! Magazine We Need Racial Solidarity to Restore Abortion Rights
The Progressive Magazine ‘Holding People Accountable, with Love and Respect’
The Washington Times “WASHINGTON: A bad first date with Mr. Obama”
NPR.org "How Birth Control Helped Change Lives," National Public Radio, May 9, 2020
Learning for Justice "Speaking Up Without Tearing Down," Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Southern Poverty Law Center
Different Takes, Hampshire College "Demographically Doomed: White Supremacy, Electoral Power and Reproductive Justice," DifferentTakes, Hampshire College, No. 92, Spring 2018
In These Times "Getting Ready for Anti-Abortion Terrorism," In These Times, September 2018
Monterey Herald "Sierra Club Director Cancels John Muir," by John Woolfolk, July 23, 2020
Smith College "Activist Loretta Ross: Staying Hopeful," Smith College News and Events, September 2019
Rewire News Group "Calling In Rather than Calling Out: When #MeToo Meets Reproductive Justice," Loretta J. Ross and Toni M. Bond, Rewire, April 5, 2019
Self Magazine "On Choosing to Share Your Abortion Story Online--Or Not," Self Magazine, June 14, 2019
The New York Times "What Abortion Access Looks Like in Mississippi: One Person at a Time," New York Times Magazine, June 20, 2019
Rewire News Group Obama Can’t Make Eye Contact With Abortion Rights
Population Connection "Loretta Ross: Reproductive Justice Pioneer," Population Connection, March 2018
Taylor & Francis Online "Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism," Souls Journal: 40 Years After Combahee, 19:13, December 2017, pp. 159-180
Ms Magazine Ms. Magazine Blog: On Resistance and Redefining Our Fight