Overview
The Politics of Reproduction Research Group will be holding a one-day online workshop about reproduction, broadly defined. We are interested in conversations about reproduction that take up intersectional, critical, anti-racist, and decolonial perspectives. This interdisciplinary workshop is meant to focus on graduate students’, postdoctoral fellows’, and early-career researchers’ work in any field. We are also interested in research by non-academic researchers situated in non-governmental organizations, government, or elsewhere.
Co-organized by: Alana Cattapan, Holly McKenzie, and Sarah Seabrook
Details
The event will take place online via Zoom, on May 2, 2025 from 11am - 4:00pm Eastern.
The expectations for the workshop are that participants will spend fifteen minutes presenting completed research or research-in-progress and have opportunities for feedback, conversation, and networking. Our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary, generative space to share new work, and foster community among emerging researchers studying reproduction.
Registration
Note: Registration link is for non-presenting attendees, speakers do not need to register.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please register via Eventbrite — https://www.eventbrite.com/e/politics-of-reproduction-graduate-and-early-career-workshop-tickets-1016659645367?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
Schedule (draft)
Note: all times are Eastern Daylight Time (Toronto time)
11:00am - 11:15am Welcome and introduction to the workshop from the organizers
11:15am - 12:30pm Concurrent Session 1
Panel 1A: Menstruation, Reproduction and Public Policy
Chair: Lisa Smith, Douglas College
Kornelia Kaminska, University of Saskatchewan; “An Intersectional Analysis of Menstrual Poverty and the Future of Achieving Equitable Menstrual Health in Canada”
Gracia Lee, Yale University; “Egg Freezing and In-Vitro Fertilization Policies in Singapore”
Kenya Thompson, York University; “Coordination Across Canada's Social Program Systems to Achieve Equitable Outcomes for Women, Children, and Families”
Panel 1B: Access to Abortion and Sterilization
Chair: Rachael Johnstone, Dalhousie University
Emma Cowman, University of Manitoba; “2SLGBTQIA+ Experiences Accessing Abortion Care in Manitoba”
Sabrina Das, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Healthcare Policy; “Post Dobbs Abortion Access Oral History Project”
Natalie Hernandez, Yale University; “Misrepresented: Examining Post-Roe Abortion Public Opinion and Law”
12:30pm - 1:00pm Pause
1:00pm - 2:15pm Concurrent Session 2
Panel 2A: Pronatalism and the State
Chair: Stephanie Patterson, Concordia University
Seda Saluk, University of Michigan; “Datafied Pregnancies: Reproductive Surveillance and the Limits of Privacy”
Maria Ximena Davila, University of Texas at Austin; “Risky Bodies, Toxic Futures: Environmental Risk and Reproductive Decision-Making in Colombia’s Caribbean Coast”
Génesis Alvelo-Colón, The Ohio State University; “"Reproductive Justice in the Shadow of Colonization: Examining Maternal Health Decision-Making in Puerto Rico's Strained Healthcare System"
Panel 2B: Discourses on reproduction and reproductive health
Chair: Sarah Seabrook, University of Waterloo
Mara Santilli, Yale University; “Out of Control: Contraceptive Coercion and the Fight for Reproductive Autonomy”
Fanmei Xia, Yale University; “Gender Differences in Childfree Discourse: A Discourse Analysis of Reddit Communities”
Elizabeth Cameron, Dalhousie University; “Therapeutic roles of acupuncture for endometriosis in biomedical discourse”
2:15pm - 2:30pm Pause
2:30pm - 3:30pm Session 3
Panel 3: Reproductive justice and access to care
Chair: Erika Campbell, McMaster University
Deborah Machalow, University of Toledo College of Law; “Involuntarily Unsterilized: Needed Changes to the Medicaid Sterilization Consent Process Post-Dobbs”
Kendy Faye (Taylor), California Institute of Integral Studies; “Birth Trauma: An Introduction with Assessment & Treatment Considerations”
3:30pm - 3:45pm Closing comments from the organizers