SPARK is dedicated to creating the resources that we need to build and strengthen our communities fighting for reproductive justice in Georgia and through the South.
Through radical analysis, community conversations, and people driven research, SPARK has been able to develop a unique mixture of resources and media that provide lessons, tools, art, stories, and models for effectively building and sustaining a powerful Southern reproductive justice movement.
The resources below can be downloaded as PDFs by clicking the title links. If you would like to request a hard copy, please complete our Resource Request Form. If you have any questions or would like to share how you’re using these materials, please call 404.343.6506 or email us at info@sparkrj.org.
FIRE: Sparking the Flames in Each Other (2010)
An art/resource zine created BY and FOR us – lesbian, gay, bi, trans, questioning, same gender lovin’, and queer folks and our fierce allies. The first of its kind in Georgia and the South, this zine is packed with facts, tips, stories, tools, resources, and art around sex, sexuality, dating and relationships, how to be an ally, safety, and so much more!
We made moves throughout the summer of 2009; building relationships, exploring power and privilege and our dreams, passing out our own “Let’s Talk About Sex!” surveys, holding youth facilitated focus groups, and collecting resources to bring this much needed guide to OUR communities.
It’s creative, brilliant, and brimming with info for queer youth of color living and loving in the South on how to live lives full of hope, promise, safety, leadership, and power!
Giving Birth Behind Bars: A Guide to Achieving Reproductive Justice for Incarcerated Women (2011)
“Giving Birth Behind Bars” is a project conceived by and contributed to by members of the SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW Core Organizing Team. This amazing resource provides a powerful analysis of gender and the prison industrial complex, evaluates each county in Georgia’s restraint practices, provides popular education tools and resources that can be replicated in other campaigns and states, and finally brings the voices and experiences of medical providers and formerly incarcerated women together to demand an end to the barbaric and inhuman practice of shackling.
The Georgia Access Guide 3rd Edition (2008)
SPARK produces Georgia’s only comprehensive reproductive health guide focused on providing communities with vital information and creating more access for people and their communities to make holistic, empowered health decisions. In its 3rd edition, more than 7,000 Access Guides have been distributed throughout Georgia and the South.
This 80 page guides provides a wide array of information covering sexual health education, STD/HIV testing centers, abortion providers in our state, and direct services organizations that provide support for victims of domestic violence, rape crisis centers, homelessness, mental health, LGBTQI, immigrant and refugee issues and beyond.
We believe that in order achieve reproductive justice we must first respond to the immediate needs of our communities. One of our most pressing needs is ACCESS; access to information, to health care, to education, to safe spaces, and to each other. The Access Guide is one step in creating greater access for all communities and, with the wealth of resources and information inside, is an indispensable tool for advancing reproductive justice.
To search the PDF for keywords, i.e. abortion provider, morning after pill, etc., press CTLR+F and fill in the blank.
