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On June 30th, the Reproductive Righteousness Project launched with a symposium called “Reproductive Righteousness and the Alt-Right State: An International Feminist Symposium”, featuring feminist scholars from around the world who offered a comparative discussion of this important topic. We are delighted to announce that...

Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. I completed my Ph.D. in the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge in December 2019. My areas of expertise are in critical race theory, the critical study of eugenics and scientific racism, historical sociology, and the sociology of health and illness with a focus on reproduction, decolonial theory, gender studies, queer theory, and social inequalities. I will be undertaking a four-year Research Fellowship at Gonville & Caius from October 2021.

As part of our explorations of the links between reproduction, extractivism, and the environment, ReproSoc held a group viewing of 'Maxima' at 1 pm on Friday 11th June (London), followed by a live Zoom Q&A session with the Director, Claudia Sparrow, at 2:30 pm (London).

A discussion between Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Vanesa Giraldo Gärtner & Tatiana Sanchez Parra, chaired by Dr Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago, ReproSoc. Panel description: This exciting panel discussion had reproduction and sexuality at its center to understand how they have animated recent political debates and transitions (Briggs, 2017) in Latin America. Looking at the pre-post conflict state (Theidon 2007) in Colombia and Peru, the participants in this round table reflected on the conflicting implications of reproduction and sexuality in transitional justice, the functioning of the law, and violence.