Breaking Binaries: Queer Abolitionist Dreamscapes of Bodily Autonomy

This teach-in was hosted by Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, Movement for Family Power, and Elephant Circle. 

In November 2024, Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, and Movement for Family Power convened the Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing symposium to interrogate the family policing system as a reproductive injustice. Then, we continued the work with a 5-part virtual teach-in series in collaboration with Elephant Circle. 

Listen in to part three: Breaking Binaries: Queer Abolitionist Dreamscapes of Bodily Autonomy. In the ongoing, coordinated surge of anti-trans & anti-abortion legislative efforts, states have sought to characterize gender-affirming care as child abuse and restrict young people’s access to bodily autonomy under the guise of “parental rights. All the while, queer and trans youth in the foster system are more likely to experience violence, houselessness, exploitation, and barriers to care. This is NOT about protecting kids—it’s about expanding punishing, death-making systems.

Amid this harm, queer families have always carried wisdom we need to move forward–wisdom rooted in care, resistance to criminalization, and reimagining bodily autonomy. Listen to the recording for an intergenerational worldbuilding session centering queer, trans, young people & parents:

• Ashley & Tyonni — mama, daughter duo!
• Hailey
• Zaira
• Sadé
• Moderated by Elephant Circle