Imagining Feminist Futures and Reproductive Justice in Dystopian Times

Abstract

Drawing on insights and observations from Argentina and the United States, this commentary takes stock of recent social and political developments and asks how we can envision feminist futures and reproductive justice in dystopian times. This is a time when the policies, institutions, and spaces pursued by movements for racial, environmental, queer, feminist, and social justice are under systematic attack, targeted from the highest levels of political and economic power. In the wake of authoritarian politics, multiple forms of resistance have been spreading through layers of society, from small gestures of dissent, to acts of civil disobedience, to mass protests. In the form, content, visions, and alliances emerging from these oppositional stances lie the possibilities of feminist futures. Resistance offers an opportunity to reframe adverse contexts beyond embattlement and to generate spaces, discourses, and experiences that are not simply defensive but emerge and develop in feminist terms.