Register today for "Menstrual Justice: A Human Rights Vision," which will be held March 6 at 4 p.m. in the SMC Campus Center Elm Ballroom.
There is growing acknowledgment that menstruation discrimination is sex discrimination and even intersectional discrimination, involving discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity or sex and disability. There is an understanding that menstrual injustices violate human rights. Nonetheless, discrimination, stigma, and human rights violations continue. Why?
Margaret Johnson, JD, from the University of Baltimore School of Law coined the terms menstrual injustice and menstrual justice in 2018 as she attempted to catalogue the ways in which discrimination against individuals who menstruate manifests, to understand the root of the discrimination, and to construct pathways toward addressing the injustices. In this talk, Johnson will discuss the collaborative work she has done to address menstrual justice with grassroots advocates and researchers in the United States and Australia, as well as with an international coalition.
About the Speaker
Margaret Johnson, JD, is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Her current research examines reproductive justice, including menstruation law and policy. She asks questions about how women and other pregnancy capable individuals are subject to structural and intersectional forms of oppression. She explored comparative menstruation law and policy as a 2023 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Technology Sydney in Sydney, Australia.
Her research examines the regulation of reproduction and menstruation by state and private actors. In addition, she addresses the use of narrative theory, critical reflection, and normative theory in lawyering for clients. Johnson’s articles have been published in the UC Davis Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, BYU Law Review, and Cardozo Law Review, among others. She is co-author of the book "Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework for Law Students and Practitioners" (second edition, 2023). Her research has been relied upon and cited by courts, media, and other scholars.