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. In many cases, my speeches are available on YouTube.

Loretta J. Ross papers

"Calling In Rather than Calling Out: When #MeToo Meets Reproductive Justice," Loretta J. Ross and Toni M. Bond, Rewire, April 5, 2019

"Speaking Up Without Tearing Down," Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Southern Poverty Law Center

Hampshire College 2018 Commencement

"Demographically Doomed: White Supremacy, Electoral Power and Reproductive Justice," DifferentTakes, Hampshire College, No. 92, Spring 2018

"Getting Ready for Anti-Abortion Terrorism," In These Times, September 2018

"Loretta Ross: Reproductive Justice Pioneer," Population Connection, March 2018

"Planned Parenthood's Next President Should be a Woman of Color," January 30, 2018, Huffington Post

"Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism," Souls Journal: 40 Years After Combahee, 19:13, December 2017, pp. 159-180

"Teaching Reproductive Justice: An Activist's Approach," in Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies, eds. Perlow O., Wheeler D., Bethea S., Scott B. (eds) Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies. Palgrave Macmillan, (2018)

"How Scholars and Activists can Partner for Reproductive and Racial Justice," University of Massachusetts with Rickie Solinger, November 30, 2017,

"Women's Reproductive Rights in the Age of Trump," James Madison University, September 21, 2017

Ms. Magazine Blog: On Resistance and Redefining Our Fight

Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique, eds. Loretta J. Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater Toure, November 2017, Feminist Press

Reproductive Justice in the Age of Trump, Dominion Lecture, James Madison University, September 26, 2017, Video

Reproductive Justice in the Age of Trump, article from James Madison University newspaper September 26, 2017

New Reproductive Justice Guide Is a Powerful Vision for the Future, April 3, 2017, Rewire

Reproductive Justice: An Introduction, a primer co-written with Rickie Solinger, published by University of California Press, March 17, 2017

At the Crossroads of Economic Justice and Reproductive Justice, Center for American Progress, March 15, 2017

Reproductive Justice Beyond Biology, Center for American Progress, March 15, 2017

Mourning Norma McCorvey: The Story of Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade, Bitch Magazine, March 2, 2017

5 Experienced Activists on What First-Time Demonstrators Need to Know, Elle Magazine, January 20, 2017

Women's Rights are Human Rights and the Women's March on Washington, January 19, 2017

Childhood Sexual Abuse: Paying It Forward Instead of Looking Back, The Feminist Wire, October 25, 2016

Montgomery Community College, The History Gender-Based Sexual Violence, June 3, 2016

University of Washington School of Social Work Commencement Speech, June 9, 2016: Activism as the Art of Making Your Life Matter

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 reviewed by Loretta Ross

Fighting White Supremacy and White Privilege to Build a Human Rights Movement

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines Apr 1, 2016 by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and China Martens​ (I wrote the Preface)

Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Dec 24, 2015by Julia Oparah and Alicia Bonaparte​ (I wrote one chapter on Reproductive Justice and Population Control)

Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities by Alana Apfel (Author), Victoria Law (Preface), Silvia Federici (Introduction), Loretta J. Ross (Foreword)​

Reproductive Justice at the United Nations

Loretta Ross and Menstruation Research

Loretta Ross on Eugenics: Eugenicists Never Retreat, They Just Regroup: Sterilization and Reproductive Oppression in Prisons

Loretta Ross on PBS/AOL Makers: Women Who Make America Video Series

Loretta Ross at Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference 2014

Loretta Ross on Is It Time for a Black Feminist to Head the NAACP?

Loretta Ross on Justice Feminism

How to Have a Political Conversation: Reflections from Loretta Ross

Loretta Ross' Papers at Smith College

Loretta Ross: Justice Feminist

Loretta Ross on Health Care Reform at Planned Parenthood

Ms. Magazine Blogs

Origins of the Term "Women of Color"

Loretta Ross, "The Color of Choice," in Incite! Anthology

Loretta Ross On Anti-Choicers, the Media, and Race

Loretta Ross Unmasks Black Anti-Abortion Message, Media Spin

Keynote at Our Bodies, Ourselves 40th Anniversary Conference November 2, 2011

Keynote at Dickinson College March 25, 2009

Keynote at Concordia University, Montreal September 2009

Loretta Ross: The Economic and Racial Dynamics of Abortion January 27, 2010

Abortion Testimonial by Loretta Ross

Understanding Reproductive Justice (November 2006; Updated March 2011)

Reproductive Justice & Violence Against Women

Reproductive Justice 101 Training -- Mi Lola and Haitian Immigrant Women of Miami June 2008

Western States Center -- The Beauty of Reproductive Justice -- February 15, 2011

Democracy NOW! Fights on Abortion in Virginia & Georgia March 8, 2012

National Advocates for Pregnant Women -- In Defense of Roe Conference -- 1989

Loretta Ross on Bringing the Revolution Home -- Hampshire College April 2011

Understanding Reproductive Justice (French Translation)

Loretta Ross in Pacific Northwest June 24, 2007

Loretta Ross at Women of Color Resource Center Sisters of Fire Awards November 2008

Are Black Children an Endangered Species? March 26, 2010

Women's Fund of Hawaii -- Reproductive Justice 101 Training -- May 2009

Stop Stupak Rally -- December 2, 2009

The Politics of Race and Abortion: Is the Pro-choice Movement Ready?

AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN AND ABORTION

Re-enslaving African American Women

In the Feminist Fast Lane A Profile of Loretta Ross

White Supremacy in the 1990s

Breast Cancer Action: Loretta Ross Three Decades of Advocating for the Health and Rights of Women of Color

Fighting the Black Anti-Abortion Campaign: Trusting Black Women

Transcript of Loretta Ross Interview by Zakiya Luna, GLOBAL FEMINISMS COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES OF WOMEN’S ACTIVISM AND SCHOLARSHIP SITE: U.S.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 22, 2006,

Birthers and Birchers: Hiding Behind Stars and Stripes

Off Our Backs Special Issue on Women of Color and Reproductive Justice

The Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights of Women of Color, NWSA Journal

Mobilizing for Reproductive Justice

Bitch Magazine: LORETTA ROSS: THE CRUSADER FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

Loretta Ross, one of many smart Black women

Loretta Ross says Stupak is a human rights violation

Race, Class, and Rights in Mississippi: How A Reproductive Justice Campaign Can Save the Pill and Save the Vote

Reproductive Justice Briefing Book

Loretta Ross and Identifying as a Woman of Color

Defeating Personhood: A Critical But Incomplete Victory for Reproductive Justice

Book Review: Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream - By Leonard Zeskind

Is Abortion Black Genocide? SisterSongCollective Voices Special Edition 2011

A Feminist Perspective on Katrina

Trying to Hijack the Civil Rights Legacy

Sexual Violence as a Human Rights Violation

Loretta Ross in 1975 Rape Culture Film

Loretta Ross in No! The Documentary

Smear-n-Fear -- Attacks on Margaret Sanger

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice Book Review

Pro-Choice is Not Enough

Are Anti-Abortion Groups Targeting Black Women? by Jill Nelson

A Simple Human Right: The History Of Black Women And Abortion