In this episode of Southern Synergy, host Duke Virginia sits down with Alexia Rice Henry Co-Executive Director at ARC-Southeast to explore her journey with IUI and what it means to build Black queer family in a medical system not designed for us.

Alexia speaks openly about the emotional, physical, and political dynamics of fertility treatment, and how her experience as a Black queer woman navigating IUI intersects with reproductive justice, systemic inequity, and the fight for self-determination in family building.

Some Highlights:

The realities of IUI and fertility treatment for Black queer people

Medical trauma and access barriers in reproductive care

The emotional toll and radical hope needed behind building family especially as a queer Black person

Reproductive justice as a liberatory framework

Resources & Mentions:

ARC-Southeast – Abortion and reproductive care support across the South

SisterSong’s Reproductive Justice Framework

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