Patterson, Sophie and Caruana-Finkel, Liza and Jones, Jude and Dobrushi, Felicity and Chadwick, Kate and Fledderjohann, Jasmine (2025) Participatory Photography for Reproductive Justice : Recommendations from a Collaborative Community Project Incorporating Care as an Ethical Foundation. In: Fourth joint international annual conference of the Feminist Legal Research and Action Network: A Feminist Politics of Radical Hope in a Time of Oppression, 2025-11-06 - 2025-11-07, School of Law and Social Justice.
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Reproductive justice is a framework applied to interrogate and challenge structural factors which constrain individual (non)reproductive choices. This framework necessitates an intersectionally-aware and rights-based approach, which prioritises working with local communities and centres the experiences and needs of overlooked or marginalised populations. This paper describes our collective experience of a pilot research project that used participatory photography to explore perceptions and experiences of reproductive (in)justice in Northern England, and to consider how ‘place’ shapes these injustices. The project was co-designed by members of ReproNorth, who took photographs, captioned them, and curated an exhibition. ReproNorth is a network of partners (academics, community organisations, people with lived experience) committed to interrogating systems of oppression compromising reproductive justice in Northern England. We share our approach to co-design, collective interpretation and dissemination, incorporating care as an ethical foundation. We present broad thematic findings to consider how place shapes reproductive (in)justice and discuss priorities for local research and action.