Reproductive politics and Latinxs’ politics demonstrate a preoccupation with representations and discourses across time and space. Intersectional feminists theorize how controlling images function as mechanisms of social control by distorting holistic perceptions of marginalized people. While social movement research documents the importance of culture in collective action, little research applies a controlling images interpretive framework to social movement contexts. An important case for examining Latina/x representations is the ideological terrain created by pro-abortion Latina/x feminist advocates. Utilizing a three-year ethnography with California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ), written materials produced by the organization, and in-depth interviews with staff, I argue that CLRJ highlights the limitations of existing research, uses feminist approaches to dialogue, and creates structural analyses of inequalities to challenge la santa (the saint), a controlling image centering cisgender mestiza and white Latinas used to assume that all Latinas make poor advocates for reproductive autonomy.

生殖政治和拉丁人的政治表现出对跨越时间和空间的表征和话语的关注。交叉女权主义者通过扭曲对边缘化人群的整体看法来理论化控制图像如何作为社会控制机制发挥作用。虽然社会运动研究记录了文化在集体行动中的重要性，但很少有研究将控制性图像解释框架应用于社会运动背景。检验拉丁裔/x 代表的一个重要案例是支持堕胎的拉丁/x 女权主义倡导者创造的意识形态领域。利用与加州拉丁裔生殖正义 (CLRJ) 的三年民族志、该组织制作的书面材料以及与工作人员的深入访谈，我认为 CLRJ 强调了现有研究的局限性，