#TakeRoot13: Hostile Attitudes, Hostile Environments
Panel from Take Root conference, red state perspectives on reproductive justice. Took place in Norman, Oklahoma, February 15 and 16, 2013.
- From tense conversations with neighbors to clinic violence, how we all negotiate standing for reproductive justice in hostile environments.
- Panelists: Carol Mason, Julie Burkhardt, Tommy Chesbro, JT Hammons
- Moderator: Lisa Funnel
Time for the "Hostile Attitudes, Hostile Environment" session. It's difficult for me to engage w/hostility, hope to learn better #takeroot13
OK is now physically a hostile environment due to fraking and other man-made environmental interventions. #takeroot13- We are in a judgmental society, particularly for people who are or can be pregnant. #takeroot13
Dr. Mason discusses Lynn Paltrow's & @NAPW work covering the punitive laws regarding birth and pregnancy. #takeroot13
Society's punitive judgement on those who become pregnant, POC, youth, etc. is a hostile environment @ChoiceUSA -prof Mason #takeroot13- Sometimes we have to use identity categories that more narrow in order to show empirical evidence #takeroot13
- We live in an environment of surveillance. Particularly in our modern digital world. #takeroot13
- Airport security is racialized & sexualized hostility; choice between radiation & humiliating patdown is a miserable choice #takeroot13
- We ask people to give up privacy and safety in order to exist in our "security" driven society, for ex. airport screenings #takeroot13
- Forced ultrasounds are micro surveillance that you have to have in order to have an abortion in some states. #takeroot13
"An ultrasound is a sonar, military technology that is now being used to police women" #takeroot13- This infringes on the fundamental right to privacy that are at the root of Roe v. Wade. #takeroot13
- OK is a confluence of toxic environments. #takeroot13 is a response to those toxins.--Dr. Mason
- Our founder Julie Burkhart is speaking now. She is speaking about founding our org. #takeroot13
- What the antis do to us is very serious. Julie is sharing some of our creative actions. #takeroot13
- Julie Burkhardt of @TrustWomen speaking about her org's history of action, being disruptive & offensive right back at 'em #takeroot13
- "So we dressed up like we were pregnant and said Randall Terry was the father" Julie Burkhart on fun ways of dealing with antis. #takeroot13
- Anti choice groups have circulated literature that tries to discredit Drs. and their clinics. #takeroot13
- Antis are trying to get the area where SWWC is located rezoned. They say it will be a nuisance. #takeroot13
- But THEY are the nuisance. Their protests are what disturb the neighborhood. This issue will go before the zoning commission. #takeroot13
