Weaving reproductive justice: Storytelling and conflict‐related reproductive violence in Colombia

Abstract The exhibition “Weaving reproductive justice: Conflict and peace in Colombia,” which is the result of ethnographic, feminist, and arts‐based research, is a collaborative storytelling experience about conflict‐related reproductive violence. Through patchwork, embroidery, and written words, the exhibition takes visitors into the lives of Afro‐Colombian women who became pregnant as a result of conflict‐related sexual violence. The exhibition shows that their experiences of parenthood exceed the grammar of gendered victimhood or reproductive rights. In this article, I examine the conceptual and methodological displacements that enabled us to create stories that talk about their experiences of reproductive violence without centering victimization, but their life‐sustaining forces in war contexts. This entailed engaging with storytelling as a site of knowledge production where women's experiences, notions, and practices of sexuality, procreation, and care—not as victims‐survivors—met the researcher's situated academic lens.