The Black Feminist Reproductive Justice, Equity & HIV/AIDS Activism Collective is a new interdisciplinary lab that foregrounds the experiences, labor, and political visions of Afro-Diasporic girls, women, and gender diverse people in our shared and divergent struggles against reproductive injustice.
The BREHA Lab is founded and led by Dr. Jallicia Jolly, Assistant Professor of American Studies and of Black Studies at Amherst College (center), in collaboration with four inaugural student members: Ash Smith '18, Talia Ward '23, Fiona Yohannes '25, and Isabella Ahmad ‘25 (left to right)
Our lab’s primary goal is to use our research, community partnerships and multimedia advocacy to uplift the efforts and capacity of Black communities to combat a range of reproductive violences across structural, state, and scientific domains, such as HIV/AIDS stigma, obstetric racism, & inaccessible or withheld care.
BREHA is invested in collaborative study that honors the transnational work of our comrades and applies our learning in the service of movement building and collective action.