# @shoutyourabortion on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTpoU-pCDc
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34221557-shoutyourabortion-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-06-11T19:54:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Shout Your Abortion (@shoutyourabortion) — https://gondola.cc/shoutyourabortion

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@charlenecarruthers is the author of Unapologetic, a Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, and she is also the founder and executive director of @thechicagocenter . Words below excerpted from @sistersong_woc ‘sRJ Town Hall. #RJ4BlackLives “Thank you so much for having me. This is an incredible moment to talk about the importance of Reproductive Justice and its inherent connection to Black liberation. We know that the folks who sat in the room in my hometown of Chicago and crafted so much of the work that that we think of, and how we think of Reproductive Justice, were centered and focused on Black liberation. And so I feel honored every time I get to share space with you all. Right now in Chicago, we have young people calling for police-free schools. I actually attended a protest last night led by two young Black people, a part of Good Kids Mad City, and they were very clear in their demands. They want a city where 33 million dollars that our city is currently slated to give to the Chicago police department, to go. They don’t want that 33 million dollars to go to the Chicago police department. They want that 33 million dollars to go towards school counselors. They want that 33 million dollars to go towards books. They want that 33 million dollars to go towards librarians, towards extracurricular activities, sports, arts, music, dance, all of those things. Because frankly what we know, in Chicago, is that “school resource officers,” which is the nice way to say cops who are in schools, they get more money and resources than school counselors get in Chicago public schools. And this is all inherently a Reproductive Justice issue. As my comrade Ash-lee just laid out to us, it is about our ability to choose to or not to parent and to do so in the ways that we want to. That means being able to choose to parent or not to parent without fear of being criminalized. Without fear of being surveilled. And I mean, when I’m talking about surveillance and criminalization, I mean that happens when you go into the school. When you’re trying to go into the school – I remember the story of the Black women who were [con’t in comments]

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