Autor/-in: Alana Apfel

Alana Apfel was born in the United States and raised in the UK. She holds graduate degrees in anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and the University of Edinburgh. Her writing engages the politics of care work with a focus on birth and activist birth communities. Alana teaches on ways to radicalize birth work and continues to support people through birth in Bristol, UK. Loretta J. Ross was a cofounder and National Coordinator of the Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. She is one of the creators of the term “Reproductive Justice,” coined by African American women following the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. Victoria Law is a mother, photographer, and writer. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women. and coeditor of Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, writer, and teacher. In 1972 she was one of the cofounders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the international campaign for Wages for Housework. In the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U. S. anti-death penalty movement. She is the author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle.