CSSD working group members will participate in Law and Society Association Annual Conference in Lisbon in July 2022 in a panel on “Menstruation, Health, and the Law”

This panel discusses how menstruation is used in the law to subordinate individuals, and how similar subordination is reproduced in the public child welfare system. Papers address the relationship of menstrual surveillance and colonialism, structural racism, and structural regulation of reproduction, which have all included surveillance historically; the ways that menstrual discrimination claims are brought under existing international workplace, antitrust, discrimination, laws; and the potential for the menstrual movement of using human rights notions of dignity, agency, equality, and accountability; how the logic of incarceration and Kercheval spaces extends to the family regulation system.