Neah'Marie Hubbard (she/her)
Neah’Marie Hubbard is the North Carolina State Coordinator for SisterSong, advancing reproductive justice for Black women while honoring their agency, history, and collective power. Raised in a single-parent household in Charlotte, they developed an early understanding of resilience, identity, and creating spaces where people are celebrated rather than marginalized. The passing of Erica Garner deepened their commitment to reproductive justice and movement work. Their approach centers history, research, community organizing, and healing spaces for Black communities and communities of color.
Facilitator of: When the Liberal Rainbow Isn’t ENUF: For Colored Girls and Those Who Love Them
What happens when the liberation we imagine still does not work for everyone? When the Liberal Rainbow Isn’t ENUF invites participants to step onto the road and explore that question through reproductive justice, movement history, art, music, reflection, and collective accountability. Creatively inspired by Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf and The Wizard of Oz, this interactive class will have participants moving through the room, encountering stories, music, art, prompts, and opportunities to connect. Along the way, participants will move through stages of imagining liberation, uncovering the histories and voices that have been left out, exploring reproductive justice, reflecting on their own practices, and envisioning what it means to build something more expansive.
Through a SisterSong centered lens, we will explore how Black women and women of color shaped reproductive justice in response to the limitations of mainstream reproductive rights and feminist organizing, while making space for the experiences and leadership of queer and trans people of color, Indigenous people, disabled people, poor and working class communities, and people living at multiple intersections. The journey will ultimately turn the mirror toward ourselves: What needs are we overlooking? Where are our movements falling short? What are we willing to change?
Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of reproductive justice, identified needs within their own communities or work, and a concrete action plan for putting RJ into practice.