- Rage donations to abortion funds have waned, leading to the emergence of a new horrific phenomenon that reproductive justice organizers and debt-abolitionists are calling "Abortion Debt." In a new academic article for South Atlantic Quarterly, I write about its origins — and pathways to resistance.
- I'm doing a few things here: 1. Explain abortion debt + ground it in racialized/gendered historical context. 2. Situate 'abortion debt' in a longer lineage of neoliberalism expanding its territory by financializing social reproduction + using (mostly) women's bodies as sites of expropriation.
- 3. Make the case that debtors' unions and other novel forms of feminist organizing (like we have so clearly seen in Latin America) are pathways to resist gendered manifestations of "financial terror" like abortion debt. You can access the article for free now: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...Aug 27, 2025 19:26