Scale 1 inch = 40 miles. Engraved in 1772 for Bancroft's History of the United States by G.G. Smith. Drawn after the Fort Loudon Massacre to display territories. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1103/thumbnail.jpg

Scale 1 in = 30 miles. Author: H.S. Tanner. Hand-colored map of Tennessee from 1839-1941 detailing the state's transportation infrastructure. Roads, along with distances, and stage routes are shown. Steamboat routes and distances are shown in the bottom right. A legend indicates canals, railroads, towns, leading roads, and the state capital. Insets of Knoxville and Nashville appear in the upper corners. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1109/thumbnail.jpg

Scale 1 in = 30 miles. Full color map by counties from 1849-1858. Shows railroads, state capital, towns, and land distances. With table of steam boat routes. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1110/thumbnail.jpg

Scale 1 in = 30 miles. Shows railroads, proposed railroads, major roads, distances, towns, and rivers from 1845-1848. A key shows the steam boat routes and distances. A number of counties are not included. Large insets of Nashville and Knoxville. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1111/thumbnail.jpg

Scale 1 in = 30 miles. 1931 reprint of the 1795 original with added imagery to the map and surrounding space. The original print of this map was a published guide for emigrants to the Tennessee country, shortly to become a state. Designed to encourage prospective settlers to move to Tennessee, it contains indications of land quality, soil fertility, etc. It also displays a reference to Native American villages and their assumed boundaries. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1112/thumbnail.jpg

This map is revised from the earlier map of "The State of Tennessee" published in Carey's General Atlas in 1814, 1815, and 1816. New towns shown with various connecting roads are Franklin, Columbia, Pulaski, Vernon, Jefferson, McMinnville, Madison, Washington, Springfield, and Hendersonville in middle Tennessee. Sevierville, Newport, Warm Spring, and Blountsville are in east Tennessee. It was published in Mathew Carey, Carey's General Atlas (Philadelphia: Mathew Carey and Son, 1817). Scale 1 in = 27 miles. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1113/thumbnail.jpg

This map is much the same as "Tennessee" published in Carey and Lea's American Atlas in 1822. Like that map, it includes border text with information about the state below the map and on a separate appendix sheet. It has 52 counties, each colored separately. Many rivers are given, as are mountain ranges. Southeastern Tennessee has "Cherokee Lands" and Ross's. Roads through central and eastern parts of the state are drawn, with Nashville and Knoxville being crossroads of travel. No area beyond the state is mapped, except for lands in Alabama which fall within the Tennessee River. Franklin County is spelled "Eranklin" with Maury spelled "Murray." Unlike that map, it shows "Brainerd one of the Missionary Stations" in southeastern Tennessee. Drawn by F. Lucas Jr. Published in H.C. Carey and I. Lea, A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas (Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1823). Scale 1 in = 27 miles. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1114/thumbnail.jpg

This map depicts Tennessee in the 1830s with counties named and delineated. Topographical features are shown with various land routes, water routes, mountains, cities, towns, forts, post offices, and other details identified. Engraved by G.W. Boynton. Published in T.G. Bradford, An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries (Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Co., 1838). Scale 1 in = 30 miles. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1115/thumbnail.jpg

Tennessee State Geologist James Safford's map showing types of lands, soils, and crops of the various geological formations in Tennessee. Also shows topographical features as well as railroads, county boundaries, and towns. Prepared by order of the Bureau of Agriculture. Published in Joseph B. Killebrew, Tennessee: Its Agricultural and Mineral Wealth (1877). Scale 1 in = 12 miles. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1116/thumbnail.jpg

This dissertation offers an account of conspicuous performance as reproductive justice activism. Reproductive justice scholarship and activism disrupt dominant discursive frameworks of reproductive health and rights to emphasize the intersectionality and interdependence of oppressive systems that limit reproductive freedom. Reproductive justice scholar-activists turn to aesthetic communication practices, such as storytelling, as a strategy for challenging reproductive oppression. As a practice of public and scholarly aesthetic communication, performance studies provides a unique methodological approach for practicing reproductive justice. To demonstrate this argument, I trace a history of performance scholar-activists engaging reproductive politics through conspicuous performance. While this history stretches across the performance studies discipline, I locate the Marion Kleinau Theatre at Southern Illinois University Carbondale as a case study to examine the breadth and depth of reproductive justice performance in a particular performance space. Using Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenological archival methods, I assemble an archive of reproductive politics in Kleinau Theatre performances organized around the three primary principles of reproductive justice: the right to have children, the right to not have children, and the right to safe and sustainable communities. By attending to the reproductive politics in performance acts, I highlight the reproductive politics of performance acts—or how performance is discursively framed through the language of reproduction. Ultimately, I advocate for queering performance archives to disrupt this repro-normativity, approaching them instead through reproductive justice concepts of access, pleasure, and memorial.