- Collection:
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender
- Title:
- Depo Diaries--Community response to Depo, 2000-2008
- Creator:
- Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008 - Subject:
- Birth control
Contraceptive drugs, Injectable
Medroxyprogesterone - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Formed in 2001, the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment (CWPE), a multi-racial alliance of feminist community organizers, scholarly activists, and health practitioners, is committed to promoting the social and economic empowerment of women in a context of global peace and justice; and to eliminating poverty. As an organization, CWPE supports women's right to safe, voluntary birth control and abortion, while strongly opposing demographically driven population policies, challenging the belief that population growth is the primary cause of environmental degradation, conflict, and growing poverty, working to provide a broader analysis that reflects the complexity of these issues. CWPE works to build partnerships with community organizers, scholar-activists, and health practitioners to accomplish its political goals, coordinating three task forces: the Dangerous Contraceptive Task Force; the Immigration, Environment, and Gender Task Force; and the Gender, Eugenics, and Biotechnology Task Force. These are the vehicles through which CWPE builds strong coalitions to challenge oppressive population control policies. In addition, CWPE also coordinates three critical initiatives designed to address and undermine reproductive violence and increase reproductive self-determination: Stop C.R.A.C.K.!, Depo Diaries, and Stop Sex Selection!. Depo Diaries was a national storytelling project with an emphasis on reproductive justice with the goal of uncovering a more accurate picture of the range and kinds of side effects women experience from Depo-Provera (trademarked name of medroxyprogesterone, an injected contraceptive).
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arwg/id/3996
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/arwg:3996/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- These materials, gathered by the donor from many sources, have been digitized for preservation purposes and are being made available on the Internet for scholarship, educational, and personal use only. These materials document a thematic assemblage of manuscript, photographic, and printed research materials, and neither the donor nor Georgia State University claims ownership of the intellectual property rights for printed materials not created by the donor or Georgia State University. If you are a copyright holder of any part of the content and believe that that content should not be made publicly available, please contact Special Collections and Archives.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: W114_01_10, Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment Depo Diaries records, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Original Collection:
- Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment Depo Diaries records
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1393
Archives for Research on Women and Gender - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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