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This talk centres the stories of Palestinian women surviving the ongoing genocide in Gaza to understand the matrix of settler colonial violence and its gendered effects—from starvation to the violation of women’s bodies during the time of birth, to witnessing mass killings and experiences of multiple forced displacements, to the intimacies of caretaking, grief and mourning—an indictment of the cruel world that has resigned Palestinian women as killable and expendable subjects. In their telling, women denounced gendered violence—that which Israel has inflicted through physical and psychological acts of pain, humiliation, and degradation onto the gendered Palestinian body—as closely linked to acts of dehumanisation, territorial dispossession, and the destruction of Indigenous ways of being in the world. Amidst this tapestry of grief, Palestinian women’s stories narrate a collectively forged vocabulary of survival in the midst of unending genocidal terror. I think with women’s analysis of their own lived experiences of genocide and their collectively forged survival to theorize a Palestinian feminist analysis of reproductive genocide. I argue that we need to strive for a reproductive justice politics that is not only anti-Zionist but is also anti-imperialist and abolitionist and led by the fierce power and wisdom of Indigenous and people of color communities across the globe who have been responsible for the labor of mothering and caregiving in the face of many interconnected systems of U.S. and European empire building.

Organisers: Dr Lucy Lowe and Dr Tatiana Sanchez Parra (as part of the Reproductive Violence Conference)