We’re thrilled to have Reproductive Justice Action – Milwaukee (RJAM) lead our next Cactus Book Club. We’ll meet on Wednesday, November 6th at 5:30pm to discuss Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work by Jenny Brown. Birth Strike “is a well-researched and wide-ranging analysis of how the public responsibilities of pregnancy and parenting have been privatized to benefit a capitalist for-profit system designed to minimize labor costs to produce wealth for the few. Offers fresh insight into how women’s biological power may be harnessed to resist reproductive oppression.”

Recommended bookseller: Lion’s Tooth

“Founded after the overturn of Roe v Wade in 2022, Reproductive Justice Action – Milwaukee (RJAM) is a grassroots organization with the goal of expanding abortion care and fostering community. We envision a city where families can thrive and have access to all resources without barriers. We follow the Sister Song definition of reproductive justice which is “the right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities”.”

Cactus Book Club (CBC) meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room at Cactus Club. Each month a different business, community organization, collective, or mutual aid group chooses the book & recommended bookseller then leads the discussion. We read sociopolitical fiction and non-fiction, with a focus on works by women, LGBTQ+, POC, and/or otherwise under-published groups. You don’t have to finish reading the book to attend. All book club meetings are free. No registration required. 18+. CBC is part of our ongoing Cactus+ programming.

Contact kelly@cactusplus.org with questions or suggestions