Zakiya Luna
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zakiya Luna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zakiya |
| FAMILY NAME | Luna |
| SIGNATURE | LUNA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9085-7694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 221 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Reproductive Justice Knowledge Production in the Post- Dobbs Crisis
While research on reproduction has historically been marginalized in many disciplines, the post-Dobbs political crisis has brought renewed attention to the importance of understanding reproduction. In the background, a growing academic attention to the expansive reproductive justice framework has produced a range of projects and institutionalized efforts under the name. This article focuses on pre- and post-Dobbs reproductive justice enterprises …
Understanding Marginalized Communities’ Perspectives for Relevant Reproductive Policy
On Joy and War
Black feminist theorizing developed outside the formal academy to meet the needs of Black women but did not end there. This review offers entrée to some current 'wars' and debates on politics of knowledge about Black feminist theories, concepts, and praxis that have deepened within sociology and increasingly extend into live conference panels, online debates, and legislatures. Shared characteristics within Black feminism include persistent and cr…
Acerca de la alegría y la guerra
La teorización feminista negra se desarrolló fuera del mundo académico formal para satisfacer las necesidades de las mujeres negras, pero no terminó ahí. Esta reseña ofrece acceso a algunas 'guerras' y debates actuales acerca de las políticas del conocimiento sobre teorías, conceptos y praxis feministas negras que se han profundizado dentro de la sociología y se extienden cada vez más a paneles de conferencias en vivo, debates en línea y legislat…
Remembering, Learning, and Envisioning as the Work
Black Feminist Sociology
Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of BFS, expositions of BFS o…
Reproductive Injustice
Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the women of color-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a human rights issue? In Reproductive Rights as Human Rights , Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creat…
Turning Toward Intersectionality in Social Movement Research
This opening essay introduces Mobilization’s twenty-fifth anniversary issue on intersectionality and social movement research. We reference several works in the field that offer insights into the multiplicity of iterations, practices, and attempts to do intersectionality at the level of social movements, mass mobilization and movement research. We discuss how the new inward focus among many practitioners in the field often reveals the dilemma of …
Black celebrities, reproductive justice and queering family
Black Children Are an Endangered Species”
The “Endangered Species” anti-abortion billboard controversy in Atlanta in 2010 gained international attention and sparked lengthy discussion about the causes and consequences of black women’s abortion rates and abortion in general. While abortion is typically presented as gendered phenomenon, race and class dimensions influence the contours of support and opposition to the issue. This case provides a unique opportunity to consider black social m…
Who Speaks for Whom? (Mis) Representation and Authenticity in Social Movements
While many social movement studies mention the idea of authenticity, few consider the authentication processes in movements. This article examines how authenticity challenges manifest in different arenas of movement/countermovement struggles. Through a qualitative analysis of minority organizations engaged in an abortion debate, I focus on how racial minorities demonstrate authenticity to legitimate their ability to represent their community's vi…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Truly a Women of Color Organization
Research on the U.S. women's movement has documented the difficulties of cross-racial work between White women and women of racial/ethnic minorities. Less understood is how racial/ethnic minorities do cross-racial work among themselves to construct a collective identity of 'women of color' that encourages solidarity across race, class, and other statuses. Drawing on research from the reproductive justice movement, I examine how women of color org…
Reproductive Justice
The authors examine the development of reproductive rights, a law-focused movement, and reproductive justice, a social justice–aimed movement that emphasizes intersecting social identities (e.g., gender, race, and class) and community-developed solutions to structural inequalities. In examining the intertwining histories of the reproductive health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice movements, we consider the relationship between law a…
Marching Toward Reproductive Justice
This article examines how coalition frames develop and what happens to that frame after the formal coalition ends. To that end, I analyze the frame shift around the 2004 March for Women's Lives (March). The March initially focused on established ideas of reproductive rights around which the four national mainstream co-sponsors previously organized. However, after a newer reproductive justice organization joined the coalition, material and organiz…
From Rights to Justice
The history of government racism is part of the explanation of the limited contemporary use of human rights in the US. This history poses a challenge to mainstream organizations' ability to organize using human rights, yet some contemporary organizations embrace these concepts that are in full use within international settings. This article focuses on the emergent reproductive justice movement, a women of color-based social movement which complic…
Reproductive Justice
The authors examine the development of reproductive rights, a law-focused movement, and reproductive justice, a social justice–aimed movement that emphasizes intersecting social identities (e.g., gender, race, and class) and community-developed solutions to structural inequalities. In examining the intertwining histories of the reproductive health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice movements, we consider the relationship between law a…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Truly a Women of Color Organization
Research on the U.S. women's movement has documented the difficulties of cross-racial work between White women and women of racial/ethnic minorities. Less understood is how racial/ethnic minorities do cross-racial work among themselves to construct a collective identity of 'women of color' that encourages solidarity across race, class, and other statuses. Drawing on research from the reproductive justice movement, I examine how women of color org…
From Rights to Justice
The history of government racism is part of the explanation of the limited contemporary use of human rights in the US. This history poses a challenge to mainstream organizations' ability to organize using human rights, yet some contemporary organizations embrace these concepts that are in full use within international settings. This article focuses on the emergent reproductive justice movement, a women of color-based social movement which complic…
Black Feminist Sociology
Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of BFS, expositions of BFS o…
Turning Toward Intersectionality in Social Movement Research
This opening essay introduces Mobilization’s twenty-fifth anniversary issue on intersectionality and social movement research. We reference several works in the field that offer insights into the multiplicity of iterations, practices, and attempts to do intersectionality at the level of social movements, mass mobilization and movement research. We discuss how the new inward focus among many practitioners in the field often reveals the dilemma of …
Who Speaks for Whom? (Mis) Representation and Authenticity in Social Movements
While many social movement studies mention the idea of authenticity, few consider the authentication processes in movements. This article examines how authenticity challenges manifest in different arenas of movement/countermovement struggles. Through a qualitative analysis of minority organizations engaged in an abortion debate, I focus on how racial minorities demonstrate authenticity to legitimate their ability to represent their community's vi…
Marching Toward Reproductive Justice
This article examines how coalition frames develop and what happens to that frame after the formal coalition ends. To that end, I analyze the frame shift around the 2004 March for Women's Lives (March). The March initially focused on established ideas of reproductive rights around which the four national mainstream co-sponsors previously organized. However, after a newer reproductive justice organization joined the coalition, material and organiz…
Black celebrities, reproductive justice and queering family
On Joy and War
Black feminist theorizing developed outside the formal academy to meet the needs of Black women but did not end there. This review offers entrée to some current 'wars' and debates on politics of knowledge about Black feminist theories, concepts, and praxis that have deepened within sociology and increasingly extend into live conference panels, online debates, and legislatures. Shared characteristics within Black feminism include persistent and cr…
Black Children Are an Endangered Species”
The “Endangered Species” anti-abortion billboard controversy in Atlanta in 2010 gained international attention and sparked lengthy discussion about the causes and consequences of black women’s abortion rates and abortion in general. While abortion is typically presented as gendered phenomenon, race and class dimensions influence the contours of support and opposition to the issue. This case provides a unique opportunity to consider black social m…
From Rights to Justice
The history of government racism is part of the explanation of the limited contemporary use of human rights in the US. This history poses a challenge to mainstream organizations' ability to organize using human rights, yet some contemporary organizations embrace these concepts that are in full use within international settings. This article focuses on the emergent reproductive justice movement, a women of color-based social movement which complic…
Marching Toward Reproductive Justice
This article examines how coalition frames develop and what happens to that frame after the formal coalition ends. To that end, I analyze the frame shift around the 2004 March for Women's Lives (March). The March initially focused on established ideas of reproductive rights around which the four national mainstream co-sponsors previously organized. However, after a newer reproductive justice organization joined the coalition, material and organiz…
Reproductive Justice
The authors examine the development of reproductive rights, a law-focused movement, and reproductive justice, a social justice–aimed movement that emphasizes intersecting social identities (e.g., gender, race, and class) and community-developed solutions to structural inequalities. In examining the intertwining histories of the reproductive health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice movements, we consider the relationship between law a…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Truly a Women of Color Organization
Research on the U.S. women's movement has documented the difficulties of cross-racial work between White women and women of racial/ethnic minorities. Less understood is how racial/ethnic minorities do cross-racial work among themselves to construct a collective identity of 'women of color' that encourages solidarity across race, class, and other statuses. Drawing on research from the reproductive justice movement, I examine how women of color org…
Black Children Are an Endangered Species”
The “Endangered Species” anti-abortion billboard controversy in Atlanta in 2010 gained international attention and sparked lengthy discussion about the causes and consequences of black women’s abortion rates and abortion in general. While abortion is typically presented as gendered phenomenon, race and class dimensions influence the contours of support and opposition to the issue. This case provides a unique opportunity to consider black social m…
Who Speaks for Whom? (Mis) Representation and Authenticity in Social Movements
While many social movement studies mention the idea of authenticity, few consider the authentication processes in movements. This article examines how authenticity challenges manifest in different arenas of movement/countermovement struggles. Through a qualitative analysis of minority organizations engaged in an abortion debate, I focus on how racial minorities demonstrate authenticity to legitimate their ability to represent their community's vi…
Black celebrities, reproductive justice and queering family
Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the women of color-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a human rights issue? In Reproductive Rights as Human Rights , Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creat…
Turning Toward Intersectionality in Social Movement Research
This opening essay introduces Mobilization’s twenty-fifth anniversary issue on intersectionality and social movement research. We reference several works in the field that offer insights into the multiplicity of iterations, practices, and attempts to do intersectionality at the level of social movements, mass mobilization and movement research. We discuss how the new inward focus among many practitioners in the field often reveals the dilemma of …
Black Feminist Sociology
Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of BFS, expositions of BFS o…
Reproductive Injustice
Remembering, Learning, and Envisioning as the Work
On Joy and War
Black feminist theorizing developed outside the formal academy to meet the needs of Black women but did not end there. This review offers entrée to some current 'wars' and debates on politics of knowledge about Black feminist theories, concepts, and praxis that have deepened within sociology and increasingly extend into live conference panels, online debates, and legislatures. Shared characteristics within Black feminism include persistent and cr…
Acerca de la alegría y la guerra
La teorización feminista negra se desarrolló fuera del mundo académico formal para satisfacer las necesidades de las mujeres negras, pero no terminó ahí. Esta reseña ofrece acceso a algunas 'guerras' y debates actuales acerca de las políticas del conocimiento sobre teorías, conceptos y praxis feministas negras que se han profundizado dentro de la sociología y se extienden cada vez más a paneles de conferencias en vivo, debates en línea y legislat…
Understanding Marginalized Communities’ Perspectives for Relevant Reproductive Policy
Reproductive Justice Knowledge Production in the Post- Dobbs Crisis
While research on reproduction has historically been marginalized in many disciplines, the post-Dobbs political crisis has brought renewed attention to the importance of understanding reproduction. In the background, a growing academic attention to the expansive reproductive justice framework has produced a range of projects and institutionalized efforts under the name. This article focuses on pre- and post-Dobbs reproductive justice enterprises …
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economic Justice (6 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (6 works)