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Healthy and Free Tennessee is excited to welcome you to our 3rd annual statewide convening #HFTNcon2019 at Tennessee State University’s Avon Williams Campus at 330 10th Avenue North, in downtown Nashville. Our statewide convening is a gathering for progressives that centers reproductive freedom and movement building in Tennessee.
This year, we will dig deeper into the systemic racism within our movement. The theme is "Reproductive Freedom: What’s Race Got to Do With It?" and topics will include eugenics, history of reproductive oppression and resistance in the U.S. South, tracking the White supremacist anti-choice agenda, and anti-oppression tools for organizations, among others. Start here by downloading the convening app!



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Saturday, October 5 • 9:15am - 10:15am
Plenary #1 Reproduction and Eugenics

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Under the guise of “objective science,” “public health policy,” and “safety and security”, eugenics--control over who gets to reproduce and build families, and by what values--serves as buried foundation that undergirds the systems and practices of reproductive oppression. Often assumed to be resigned to the past, our panelists will make evident the driving force of eugenics throughout our history and in our most pressing battles today. Building Reproductive Freedom requires uprooting the realities of eugenics, including the assumptions we have internalized.
Presenters/Facilitators
avatar for Aimi Hamraie, they/them

Aimi Hamraie, they/them

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and American Studies, and Director of the Mapping Access Project, Vanderbilt University
Aimi Hamraie is assistant professor of medicine, health, & society at Vanderbilt University and co-founder of the Nashville Disability Justice Collective. Their book, Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) chronicles... Read More →
avatar for Coya White Hat-Artichoker, she/her

Coya White Hat-Artichoker, she/her

Board of Directors, Secretary, PFund Foundation
Coya is a proud enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Coya has been involved in various communities and movements since the age of 15. Coya is currently an advisory committee member for the GLBT Host Home Program, working to provide safe homes for homeless queer youth. She is... Read More →
avatar for Judith Clerjeune, she/her

Judith Clerjeune, she/her

Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC)
Judith Clerjeune (she/her) is from Fond-des-Blanc, Haiti, and immigrated with her family to the United States in 2004. She holds a B.A. in History from Williams College and a Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Judith is fluent in Haitian Creole and conversational... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2019 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
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