After taking a Reproductive Justice course, I felt as if everything I had learned before the class about reproductive rights and justice was a complete lie. This collage piece is a visual representation of some of the feelings and rage I experienced when researching themes such as forced sterilization and how black bodies are used in science. One of the photographs in the collage is a woman named Sarah Baartman, whose tale moved me, which is why the text "standing u for" appears over her portrait, because no one stood up to the individuals who profited from her body. On Sarah Baartman's left side, a woman wonders if everything around her proves that America is actually a dystopian world. America and its history sound unbelievable and even dystopian because one assumes that the United States would never harm its own population, which is the total opposite of what actually happens.
