Calling In the Calling Out Culture: Dealing with Fears of Inclusion and Erasure
Loretta Ross is a Visiting
Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at various colleges teaching
courses on “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump” and
“Reproductive Justice Praxis”. She started her career in activism
and social change in the 1970s, working at the National Football
League Players’ Association, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the
National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women’s
Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan
Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, until
retiring as an organizer in 2012 to teach about activism. Her passion
transforms anger into social justice to change the world.
Her most recent books are Reproductive Justice: An Introduction co-written with Rickie Solinger, and Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique, both published in 2017. Her forthcoming book is Calling In the Calling Out Culture: Detoxing Our Movement due out in 2019.
She has appeared on CNN,
BET, “Lead Story,” “Good Morning America,” “The
Donahue Show,” the National Geographic Channel, and “The
Charlie Rose Show.” She has been quoted in the New
York Times, Time Magazine, The
Los Angeles Times, and the Washington
Post, among others.
Her activism began as a
rape and incest survivor as a teen mother. She graduated college at
age 55. She is from San Antonio, TX and lives in Atlanta, GA. She is
a mother and grandmother, and an avid pinochle player. Her dream is
to see Venus and Serena Williams play tennis in person.
- Facilitator: M. Charlene Ball
- Musician: Mick Kinney
