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Sexual and Reproductive Justice
for LGBT Youth
Presented by Elizabeth Cohen
for LGBT Network
Elizabeth Cohen (she/her/her's)
Community Educator
ecohen@lgbtnetwork.org
718 514 2155
The LGBT Network
Centers
Nassau
The Center at Woodbury
20 Crossways Park Drive N., Suite 110, Woodbury, NY 11797
Telephone: 516.323.0011
Queens
Queens LGBT Center (Q Center)
58-20 Little Neck Pkwy
Little Neck, NY 11362
Telephone: 718.514.2155
East End
The Hamptons LGBT Center
44 Union Street
Sag Harbor, NY 11963
Telephone: 631.899.4950
Suffolk
The Center at Bay Shore
34 Park Avenue
Bay Shore, NY 11706-7309
Telephone: 631.665.2300
Services
Services
Name, title
Shared Vocabulary
LGBT 101
Shared Vocabulary
Sexual Orientation
Homosexual
Heterosexual
Bisexual
Gender vs. Sex
Intersex
Gender Identity
Transgender
Transitioning
Rape Culture
Human Rights
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
Civil Rights
Political Rights
Economic Rights
Social Rights
Cultural Rights
Environmental Rights
Developmental Rights
Sexual Rights
Sexual Rights
Right to have, or not have, children
Right to Marry, and when
Same-Sex Rights
Transgender Rights
Right to Birth Control and Abortion
Right to Sexual Pleasure
Right to Define Families
Sexual and Reproductive Oppression
- Community Conditions
- Control, exploitation, regulation of individual's bodies
Sexual and Reproductive Oppression
LGBT Community
- Personal autonomy
- Discrimination
- Social policing of LGBT people
Statistics
LGBT Community
Differences between Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
Differences between Sexual and Reproductive Health, Righ...
Health
Service delivery model:
Focus: Healthcare, services, information, research and health data
Goals: to improve and expand services, research and access, prevention services, culturally competent care
Rights
Legal and advocacy based model:
Focus: to protect legal rights to reproductive health care services. Addresses the lack of legal protection or enforcement of laws implemented to protect the legal right to reproductive health care
Goal: universal legal protection for all individuals and claim thsews protections as constitutional rights
Justice
Movement-building framework
Focus: identifies how reproductive oppression is the result of the intersecions of multiple oppressions and is inherently connected to the struggle for social justice and human rights.
Goal: for all people to have the power and resources to make healthy decisions about their bodies, sexuality, and reproduction
History of SRJ
A New Paradigm: Reproductive Justice
Loretta Ross, SisterSong
https://videos.vidible.tv/prod/2013-04/29/55474f1ee4b08df3b6e6c315_640x360_LD_v1.mp4?iNPngcHx_eZaLTT-wJh2ZrTBP7Nc3yN-_Up3RmrVgZM5iarU4wJ83O6Tar3zy02u
Defining SRJ
Sexual and Reproductive Justice exist when all people have the power and resources to make healthy decisions about their bodies, sexuality, and reproduction.
Defining SRJ
SRJ Framework and Social Determinants of Health
Youth
Get Involved!
- #GetJustice League Youth Advisory Board
- #GetJustice Day of Action
- #GetJustice Youth Summit
- Have an SRJ workshop in your school, class, GSA, and club