In this talk, Rana M. Jaleel considers Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s failure to require a rape or incest exception in states that would otherwise ban or restrict access to abortions. Situating the Dobbs decision within international criminal jurisprudence and transnational feminist organizing against gender-based crimes and “sexual enslavement,” the talk asks what queer/trans of color explorations of sex and value can contribute to the meanings of reproductive justice and global racial capitalism.

Rana M. Jaleel is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and a Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow at the University of California, Davis. Her first book, The Work of Rape (2021), received a 2021 Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award and was co-winner of the 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association.

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