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.
"Speaking Up Without Tearing Down," Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Southern Poverty Law Center
Hampshire College 2018 Commencement
"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
"Women's Reproductive Rights in the Age of Trump," James Madison University, September 21, 2017
Ms. Magazine Blog: On Resistance and Redefining Our Fight
New Reproductive Justice Guide Is a Powerful Vision for the Future, April 3, 2017, Rewire
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
Women's Rights are Human Rights and the Women's March on Washington, January 19, 2017
Montgomery Community College, The History Gender-Based Sexual Violence, June 3, 2016
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 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
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
Fighting the Black Anti-Abortion Campaign: Trusting Black Women
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
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Loretta Ross and Identifying as a Woman of Color
Defeating Personhood: A Critical But Incomplete Victory for Reproductive Justice
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
Are Anti-Abortion Groups Targeting Black Women? by Jill Nelson
A Simple Human Right: The History Of Black Women And Abortion