Dr Karen Tucker is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the colonial knowledge politics that shape encounters with indigenous knowledges, bodies and worlds, and the decolonial practices that reveal and remake them. As well as the global governance of ‘traditional knowledge’, Dr Tucker has researched legacies of forced sterilisation in Peru in the award-winning Quipu Project (quipu-project.com), and peace activism in Peru and Colombi...

Professor Barbara Sutton is based in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, at University at Albany. Professor Sutton's scholarly interests include body politics, human rights, collective memory, globalization, and women's activism particularly in Latin American contexts. In this episode, Professor Sutton gives an overview of the history of reproductive politics in Argentina, citing periods of military dictatorship, economic crises and the recent ‘marea verde’ or ‘green t...

Dr Clarissa Borges is an artist and teacher. In 2019, she received her doctorate in Social History from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where she is currently professor of Visual Arts. Her artistic work explores themes relating to motherhood, childbirth, and sexuality, through photography and video installation. In this conversation, we discuss the context of constrained childbirth choices in Brazil, photography as a means of communicating pain, pleasure, intim...

Dr Anne Carruthers is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University where she teaches film studies. Her research interests lie in phenomenologies, narrative, and close textual analysis, and she has published on how pregnancy, the pregnant body, and the physical are explored in film. In this conversation, we talk about her new book titled Fertile Visions: The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas, published by Bloomsbury. We discuss the uteru...

Dr Tatiana Sanchez Parra is Assistant Professor at the Pensar Institute of Social and Cultural Studies at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. Working at the intersection of feminist socio-legal studies, anthropology of violence, and medical anthropology, her research explores gender-based, sexual, and reproductive violence in contexts of war and political transition. Currently, she is part of the gender advisory committee of the Colombian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, for which ...

Professor Alexandra Minna Stern works at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the history of eugenics and the uses and misuses of genetics in the United States and Latin America. Her recent book publications are Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (2012), and Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination (2019). In this conversation we start with the global ‘semantic landscape of eugenics’, through the nineteent...

This episode features a conversation with Dr Céire Broderick, lecturer in Latin American Studies at University College Cork. Her research focuses on gendered approaches to Latin American Cultural Studies, with special interest in contemporary Chile. We discuss Dr Broderick’s current research into artistic responses in the campaigns for reproductive justice in Argentina, Chile, and Ireland in 2018, including the longer histories of reproductive politics, coloniality and the Catholic Church in ...

In this episode we speak to Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga, from Harvard University. Professor Soto Laveaga’s research interests encompass the intersection of science and culture and public health in Latin America, and scientific and medical exchange in the Global South. She is the author of Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill. In this conversation, we discuss Mexico’s place at the centre of one of the most important breakthroughs in reproducti...

En este episodio hablamos con Rebeca Ramos Duarte, directora de la organización mexicana GIRE, el Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida. GIRE se fundó en 1992, con el impulso de resolver el problema de salud pública y de justicia social en México. Esta conversación toca el potencial de colaboraciones productivas entre académicos y activistas, la política del acceso al aborto en México, las formas de protesta durante la pandemia Covid-19, y lo que significa ser 100% ‘feminista limón’.En...

Alexandra-Marie Figueroa Miranda is a communicator, activist, and law student. She is currently the Communications Director and the creator of an Organizational Communication's Growth Strategy for Taller Salud in Loiza, Puerto Rico. She is also one of the co-creators and leaders of La Clara, a grassroots digital medium with a mission of making civic knowledge accessible to young peoples across Puerto Rico. Alexandra-Marie is a militant feminist and organizer, focused on women’s rights, rights...