Sherman Early Childhood Learning series with Dr. Martha Paynter-FR and SJ

Event date(s): March 20, 2024
Time(s): 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Category: Both Campuses
Location: Both Campuses

On Wednesday March 20, the UNB Early Childhood Centre and the UNB Faculty of Education, host The Sherman Early Childhood Learning Series: Literacies Across a Lifetime with Canadian author and researcher; Dr. Martha Paynter, Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada.

During the coming school year, selected Canadian authors will offer a one-hour online session open the public. The goal of this series is to engage participants in thinking and learning about the complexities of what it means to be diverse literate learners.

The public is invited on March 20, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. ADT

TO REGISTER:  https://AnnShermanEarlyChildhoodLearningSeries.eventbrite.ca

THE SHERMAN EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING SERIES, LITERACIES ACROSS A LIFETIME: CELEBRATING CANADIAN AUTHORS 2023 – 2024

March 20, Dr. Martha Paynter, Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada

Dr. Martha Paynter is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick, where her clinical teaching and research focus on the intersection of reproductive health and the criminal justice system.  Martha is also the Director of Nursing Research with the Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART)-UBC. She is the Affiliate Scientist for the ROSE Clinic (Reproductive Options and Services), and the founder, director of research, and past chair of Wellness Within: An Organization for Health and Justice, the only organization in Canada dedicated to advancing reproductive justice for people experiencing criminalization.

Martha is the author of Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada (2022) illustrated by Julia Hutt. This beautifully illustrated book tells the empowering true stories behind the struggles for reproductive justice in Canada, celebrating past wins and revealing how prison abolitionism is key to the path forward. The history of abortion decriminalization and critical advocacy efforts to improve access in Canada deserve to be better known. Ordinary people persevered to make Canada the most progressive country in the world with respect to abortion care. But while abortion access is poorly understood, so too are the persistent threats to reproductive justice in this country: sexual violence, gun violence, homophobia and transphobia, criminalization of sex work, reproductive oppression of Indigenous women and girls, privatization of fertility health services, and the racism and colonialism of policing and the prison system.

Contact: Kim Stewart (stewart@unb.ca) and Sherry Rose (srose@unb.ca) 

Building: Zoom

Room Number: Zoom