COLLECTIVE POWER 2025
collective power 2025
april 5 + 6, 2025.
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2025 Conference Summary:
The Collective Power Conference is an academic conference packed with inspirational speakers, networking, and movement building opportunities. Over the past three decades, the Collective Power Conference has grown steadily in numbers of participants, scope of issues covered, and geographic reach.
Uniting for Reproductive Justice & Strengthening Our Movement
Collective Power 2025 will bring together advocates from across the country to build connections, strategies, and collective power within the reproductive justice movement. In a nationally representative space, we will address the movement’s most pressing political priorities and defend civil liberties under attack. Through rich dialogue, educational sessions, performances, plenaries, and direct action, we will foster collaboration and strengthen our shared commitment to justice.
collective power 2025
Saturday April 5th
8:30 – 10:00AM: BREAKFAST
9:00AM – 5:45PM: (Childcare Unit and Low Sensory Zone Hours)
Multimedia Art Exhibit: Hours and location to be determined
The Spectral Landscape of the Womb: The Spectral Landscape of the Womb is a multimedia art collection by Lucila Carballo, a full-spectrum doula and Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst. The collection features reproductive stories of Latinx immigrants living in shelters across New England, exploring experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, miscarriage, and infant loss. Rooted in a borderland perspective that weaves together languages, territories, and temporalities, the collection presents the womb as an existential nexus—where life and death, trauma and pleasure, ancestors and unborn beings converge. This “uterine limbo” is expressed through three interconnected dimensions: geopolitical borders, intergenerational memories, and futuristic liberatory visions.
10:15AM – 11:30AM: Opening Plenary: From Local Struggles to Global Resistance: Confronting Authoritarianism, White Supremacy, and Building Power for Reproductive Justice
The opening plenary of Collective Power 2025 will feature three researchers and activists who will share strategies to confront the current state of abortion rights in the U.S., alongside the broader erosion of civil liberties impacting communities pushed to the margins. This session will explore the intersections of local, national, and global developments shaped by authoritarianism, white supremacy, and fascism, while highlighting pathways to resist these forces and build collective power for the reproductive justice movement during this pivotal political moment.
11:45AM – 12:45PM: LUNCH with a special performance
1:15 – 2:30PM: WORKSHOP SLOT #1
2:30 – 2:45PM: BREAK
2:50PM – 4:05PM: WORKSHOP SLOT #2
4:05PM – 4:30PM: BREAK
4:30PM – 5:45PM: Resistance Speak-Out
An open-mic session where conference participants are welcome to share how they’ve been resisting injustice in their communities and on their campuses. At Collective Power, we recognize that resistance takes many forms. Whether you’re advocating for abortion rights, organizing for racial equity, sharing your journey of accessing gender-affirming care, or challenging systemic oppression in other ways, your voice matters. This session is a space for storytelling, solidarity, and inspiration—where we can celebrate our collective power and learn from one another’s resilience and creativity.
5:45PM – 6:45PM: DINNER
Sunday April 6th
8:30AM – 9:30AM: BREAKFAST
9:00AM – 12:30PM: (Childcare Unit and Low Sensory Zone Hours)
Multimedia Art Exhibit: Hours and location to be determined
The Spectral Landscape of the Womb: The Spectral Landscape of the Womb is a multimedia art collection by Lucila Carballo, a full-spectrum doula and Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst. The collection features reproductive stories of Latinx immigrants living in shelters across New England, exploring experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, miscarriage, and infant loss. Rooted in a borderland perspective that weaves together languages, territories, and temporalities, the collection presents the womb as an existential nexus—where life and death, trauma and pleasure, ancestors and unborn beings converge. This “uterine limbo” is expressed through three interconnected dimensions: geopolitical borders, intergenerational memories, and futuristic liberatory visions.
9:45AM – 11:00AM: WORKSHOP SLOT #3
11:15am – 12:30PM: Closing Plenary: Disability Justice in Reproductive Justice: Inspiring Action and Building Strategy for a More Inclusive Future with Imani Barbarin
The closing plenary of Collective Power 2025 will feature Imani Barbarin, a renowned disability rights and inclusion activist who uses her voice and social media platforms to spark vital conversations within the disability community. Born with cerebral palsy, Imani brings the perspective of a disabled Black woman, addressing the intersections of race, disability, and social justice. She will explore Disability Justice as a foundational framework within the broader reproductive and social justice movements, highlighting their critical intersections. This session will inspire and empower attendees with inclusive strategies to challenge systems of oppression and foster accessible, equitable, and transformative organizing in their communities.
12:30PM – 1:30PM: LUNCH
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