Deeply Rooted & Tightly Woven: Building Community with SACReD R-Soul: Reclaiming the Soul of Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Rev. Terry Williams are on location at the 2024 SACReD Gathering in New Orleans. A multireligious organization of faith-rooted reproductive freedom advocates, SACReD (Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity) builds connections across geographies and theologies to support abortion justice and reproductive justice.Listen is as Kelley and Terry talk about the Gathering and reflect on the need to build robust, interconnected relationships to advance collective liberation in the face of ongoing societal stigma and oppression.
Links to discussed content:
SACReD (Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity): www.sacreddignity.org/
Why We Need Restorative & Transformative Justice: www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/why-we-need-restorative-and-transformative-justice?rq=transformative%20justice
"What Is/Isn't Transformative Justice" by adrienne maree brown: https://adriennemareebrown.net/2015/07/09/what-isisnt-transformative-justice/
Womanism Definition from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: https://blackfeministcollective.com/2020/11/14/alice-walker-womanist-movement/
Dallas Congregation Supports People Seeking Abortions: www.uuworld.org/articles/dallas-cong-abortion
Faith Roots Reproductive Action (formerly known as New Mexico RCRC): www.faithrootsrepro.org/
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs: www.akpress.org/undrowned.html
Emergent Strategy, by adrienne maree brown: www.akpress.org/emergent-strategy-e-book.html
Music by Korbin Jones