Cuerpa Politica: Recent Episodes
Dr R. Sanchez-Rivera and Dr Rebecca Ogden
Cuerpa Politica is a podcast about reproductive health, politics, and justice in Latin America, funded by the Institute of Latin American Studies and co-hosted by, Dr Rebecca Ogden, lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Kent and Dr R. Sanchez-Rivera, Research Fellow in Gonville & Caius College and Affiliate Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Cuerpa Politica explores reproduction in Latin America through a series of conversations with activists, practitioners, artists, and researchers working in many different contexts.
Ana Casas Broda es fotógrafa, escritora, gestora, docente, editora y comisaria, radicada en México desde 1974. Su obra gira en torno a su autobiografía y la construcción de la identidad. Los principales temas en su trabajo son la memoria, el cuerpo, la familia, el archivo, la genealogía y la maternidad. Es autora de dos libros: Álbum, de 2000, y Kinderwunsch de 2013. Sus obras se han expuesto en México, Austria, Reino Unido, Estados Unidos, Bélgica, Polonia, Uruguay, China, y Argentina, entre otros países.
En este episodio, tratamos con la exploraciones de la maternidad y feminidad en su obra fotográfica, sus decisiones artísticas y las reacciones que ha provocado su serie Kinderwunsch.
https://www.anacasasbroda.com/biografia
Hydra: https://hydra.lat/
Birth Rites Collection: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/the-collection-1/ana-casas-broda
Diana Vite Hernández es de México y se autoidentifca como una mujer feminista con discapasidad visual. Vite Hernández estudió la licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales en la UNAM y la maestría en Filosofía de la Cultura en la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Ella actualmente pertenece a la Red Nacional de Feministas con Discapacidad (FEMIDISCAS) y al GT en Estudios Críticos en Discapacidad de CLACSO.
Asimismo ha colaborado en diversos proyectos de la sociedad civil que se encuentran ligadas a la defensa de los derechos de las juventudes, población callejera y mujeres con discapacidad. Por ejemplo, en el año 2020 colaboró en la creación de contenidos para una aplicación de celular relativa a la prevención y atención de la violencia hacia mujeres con discapacidad.
Los temas que Diana sentipiensa y comparte a través de su escritura y también como docente y tallerista son: feminismos críticos, cuerpo y fragilidad, prácticas contracapacitistas, perspectiva crítica en discapacidad e imbricación de opresiones.
Publicaciones:
Tesis(2020): “El goce de lo disca. Desafiando a la autosuficiencia: una dimensión contracapacitista de la fragilidad a través de mi experiencia”. Disponible en: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AutdWd85FN-R3tuGRjnlaAtanupD--IK/view?usp=sharing
Tesis(2015): “Cuerpos sororos: una perspectiva de género en la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad”. Disponible en:https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/cuerpos-sororos-una-perspectiva-de-genero-en-la-convencion-sobre-los-derechos-de-las-personas-con-discapacidad-168505?c=BDq7M2&d=false&q=:*&i=2&v=1&t=search_0&as=0*
Vite Hernández, D. (2020). “La fragilidad como resistencia contracapacitista: de agencia y experiencia situada”. En Nómadas(52), pp. 13-27. Disponible en: http://nomadas.ucentral.edu.co/nomadas/pdf/nomadas_52/52_1V_La_fragilidad_como_resistencia_contracapacitista.pdf
Vite Hernández, D. (2020). “Notas sentidas de una imaginación erótica no ocularcéntrica”. En Hysteria Revista (33). Disponible en: https://hysteria.mx/notas-sentidas-de-una-imaginacion-erotica-no-ocularcentrica/
Dr Lina-Maria Murillo is an Assistant Professor in the Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies and History Department at the University of Iowa. Her work focuses on the intersections of reproductive freedom, race, gender, class, and sexuality, as well as immigration and Latinx subjectivities. She is currently completing her manuscript titled Fighting for Control: Reproductive Care, Race, and Power in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. In this episode, we discuss her research into the twentieth century history of the birth control movement in El Paso, how the threat of ‘Mexicanization’ of Texas was articulated, and the role of eugenic feminism in birth control at the borderland.
Elva F. Orozco Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women and Gender studies at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Orozco Mendoza was a 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow at The Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Her work has been published by Theory and Event, New Political Science, The Journal of Latin American Geography, and Philosophy and Global Affairs. In this episode, we discuss Dr Orozco Mendoza’s interdisciplinary research on femicide in Ciudad Juárez, reproductive politics at the US/Mexico border, the role that ‘protest objects’ play in the resistance and quest against gender violence, as well as her original concept of the maternal contract.
Links:
Orozco Mendoza, E. (2021). On Hearing the Daughters’ Call: Feminicide, Freedom, and Maternal Collective Action in Northern Mexico. Philosophy and Global Affairs, 1(1), 123-155.
Orozco, E. F. (2019). Mapping the Trail of Violence: The Memorialization of Public Space as a Counter-Geography of Violence in Ciudad Juárez. Journal of Latin American Geography, 18(3), 132-157.
Orozco Mendoza, E. F. (2019). Las Madres De Chihuahua: Maternal Activism, Public Disclosure, and the Politics of Visibility. New Political Science, 41(2), 211-233.
Orozco Mendoza, E. F. (2015). Undying Protests: On Collective Action and Practices of Resistance against Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez.
En este episodio hablamos con Sara Garcia Gross. Sara es activista Feminista, psicóloga y máster en derechos humanos. Actualmente es Coordinadora de alianzas e incidencia política de Agrupación Ciudadana por la despenalización del aborto en El Salvador. En este episodio, Sara explica los objetivos de la organización, el contexto de criminalización del aborto y de las emergencias obstétricas en el que trabaja. Tambien hablamos de cómo ha exacerbado la pandemia las inequidades sociales en relación con la injusticia reproductiva en El Salvador, y los vínculos entre grupos activistas en la region.
Links:
Agrupación Ciudadana por la despenalización del aborto en El Salvador: https://agrupacionciudadana.org/
Podcast - Centroamerica unida y resistiendo: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Q6Imga48FwHrSEw5Df4yq
Dr Rebecca Smyth is a Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University, specialising in international human rights law. She focuses on women’s and LGBTQ rights, and the (sometimes productive) tensions arising from historically oppressed groups engaging with the language and mechanisms of human rights. Her research has been published in the journal Feminist Review, and in the 2020 edited volume Gender Justice and the Law: Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity*. In this episode we discuss the distinctiveness of reproductive politics in the Salvadoran context, including high profile cases of reproductive injustice such as those of ‘Manuela’ and Beatriz, as well as the potential and limits of rights frameworks.
This episode was recorded on 21st October 2021.
Dr Rebecca Smyth's profile and publications: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/law/about-us/meet-our-staff/rebecca-smyth
Dr. Natalie Lira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Dr. Lira’s research looks into the largely neglected racial aspects of California’s eugenic sterilization program by providing evidence of the disproportionate institutionalization and sterilization of Mexican-origin women and men in state hospitals for the disabled during the first half of the twentieth century. Dr. Lira is the Co-Director of the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab (SSJLAB), a multi-institutional and interdisciplinary research team based in the United States.
In this episode, Dr. Lira discusses her work in the SSJLAB and her research into institutional reproductive constraint in the context of notions of criminality and 'feeblemindedness', as well as the legacies of those ideologies and practices today.
Useful Links:
Sterilization and Social Justice Lab: https://www.ssjlab.org/
Lira, N. (2021). “Low mentality” and “criminal tendencies”: Race, crime and disability in the politics of Latino men’s reproduction: “Baja mentalidad” y “tendencias criminales”: La raza, el crimen y la discapacidad en la política reproductiva hacia el hombre latino. Latino Studies, 19(3), 310-333. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-021-00332-5
Lieta Vivaldi works at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Law Department. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Goldsmiths College, University of London, a Masters in sociology from the London School of Economics, a diploma in gender and violence from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of Universidad de Chile, and is qualified in Law, by the same institution. She also works as a researcher in the Center of Applied Ethics (CEDEA) at Universidad de Chile, and as an associate researcher of the Faculty of Law at Universidad Diego Portales. She is both board member and coordinator of the Research Program on Biopolitics at the International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies, IIPSS (Santiago, Chile), and the director of the Academic Committee of the Chilean Feminist Lawyer Association (ABOFEM). Her research focuses on human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, sociology and law, biopolitics, and feminisms.
In this episode, we discuss the shape of struggles for legalised abortion in Chile, including how reproductive controls have overlapped with the rationales of neoliberalism, and political ideologies, such as during the Pinochet dictatorship, and the images or ‘political signs’ that have been alternately mobilised by feminist activists and pro-life activists in this context.
Links:
Casas, L., & Vivaldi, L. (2014). Abortion in Chile: the practice under a restrictive regime. Reproductive health matters, 22(44), 70-81. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1016/S0968-8080%2814%2944811-0
Vivaldi, L. (2020). Critical possibilities on social research: the abortion dispositif from a feminist perspective. Pléyade (Santiago), (25), 107-126. https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0719-36962020000100107&script=sci_arttext
Dr. Leandra H. Hernández is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Utah Valley University. She is the co-author of Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Americas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights (2018) and the co-editor of This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzalduan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis (2019) and Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving amidst Uncertainty (2019). In this episode we discuss her feminist, collaborative work: violence at the US-Mexico border, including reproductive feminicidios, the role of health activism when discussing critical health communication methods, and the challenges and opportunities involved in teaching about these topics, which can be categorized as difficult and triggering.
Dr Jasmine Gideon is a Reader in Gender, Health and International Development at Birkbeck, University of London. Dr Gideon is the author of several articles as well as the monographs Gender, globalization, and health in a Latin American context and Handbook on gender and health (2016) and co-author of two books in2020, Critical reflections on Public Private Partnerships and Motherhood, social policies and women's activism in Latin America. This episode explores Dr Gideon’s research interests in the gendered political economy of health in Latin America, including male-oriented healthcare systems, the ‘motherisation’ of health policy, and how an increasing presence of Public Private Partnerships impacts reproductive health services.
Links:
Gideon, Jasmine (2014) Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230103559
Gideon, Jasmine (2016). Handbook on gender and health. Cheltenham: Edgar https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781784710859/9781784710859.xml
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 Colombia. In this conversation we look at the methodological considerations of the Quipu project, the question of decoloniality in research methods design, and how to research non-verbal communication in contexts of reproductive violence.
Links:
The Quipu project: https://interactive.quipu-project.com/#/en/quipu/intro
Dr Karen Tucker’s publications: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/karen-tucker/publications/
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 tide’ which resulted in the legalisation of abortion in December 2020. We also discuss Professor Sutton’s conceptual framework of ‘women’s bodily worlds’, the notion that women’s bodies have been configured as territories for civilising the nation in Argentina, and motherhood as a "hegemonic mode of feminine embodiment”. The conversation also turns to the centrality of the body to social transformation and political resistance.
Links
Sutton, Barbara, and Nayla Luz Vacarezza, eds. Abortion and Democracy: Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Routledge, 2021.https://www.routledge.com/Abortion-and-Democracy-Contentious-Body-Politics-in-Argentina-Chile-and/Sutton-Vacarezza/p/book/9780367529413
Sutton, Barbara. "Poner el cuerpo: Women's embodiment and political resistance in Argentina." Latin American Politics and Society 49.3 (2007): 129-162. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2007.tb00385.x
Sutton, Barbara. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina. Rutgers University Press, 2010. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bodies-in-crisis/9780813547404
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, intimacy, and intensity in childbirth, as a means for representing the new pressures on social reproduction within the home during Covid-19 lockdowns.
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 uterus as a narrative space, the concept of pregnant embodiment, and the impact reproductive technologies such as ultrasound, which allow us to visualize the unborn, have on our understanding of pregnancy and reproduction, and the legal moral implications that follow in variously framing the unborn as subject and object.
Links
Fertile Visions: The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fertile-visions-9781501358579/. Use code GLR TW7 at Bloomsbury.com for 35% off.
Carruthers, Anne. "Temporality, reproduction and the not-yet in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival." Film-Philosophy 22.3 (2018): 321-339. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/film.2018.0083
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 she has co-authored of a report on forced motherhood. Dr Sanchez Parra is also a member of the international consultancy team in charge of writing the Colombian report on Opportunities for Reparations for Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, for the Global Survivors Fund. In this conversation, we discuss the links between conflict and sexual violence in Colombia and its broader economic ties.
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 nineteenth and twentieth centuries, continuing to the development of eugenic ideas in Latin America, such as those that manifested in public health interventions as part of nationalistic agendas in Mexico during the last century.
Links:
Sterilization and Social Justice Lab:
https://www.ssjlab.org/
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520285064/eugenic-nation
Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/telling-genes
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/567137/proud-boys-and-the-white-ethnostate-by-alexandra-minna-stern/
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 these contexts, and the radical possibilities of decolonial approaches to reproductive justice.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Dr Broderick’s forthcoming monograph: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54496/
Somos Belen:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Somos-Bel%C3%A9n-Spanish-Elena-Correa-ebook/dp/B07ZTXL6HW
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 reproductive science - the development of the contraceptive pill, and the peasant communities whose knowledge and labour made that development possible. We also discuss the need to decolonise approaches to reproductive science, the role of culture in shaping and extending public health messaging through the twentieth century, and what pandemics and health emergencies reveal about pre-existing social, racial and class tensions.
Links:
Laboratorios en la selva: campesinos mexicanos, proyectos nacionales y la creación de la píldora anticonceptiva: https://www.casadellibro.com/ebook-laboratorios-en-la-selva-ebook/9786071669131/11803314
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill: https://www.dukeupress.edu/jungle-laboratories
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’.
Enlaces:
Observatorio Género y Covid: https://genero-covid19.gire.org.mx/
GIRE: gire.mx.org
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 of self-determination, and civil and human rights.
**In this episode, we discuss Taller Salud’s work in addressing gender violence and community health, and in supporting holistic approaches to reproductive health. We also talk about conceptualisations of feminist approaches to health, abortion rights in the current political climate, and how the lack of reproductive autonomy in Puerto Rico is implicated by diverse broader questions relating to transport and education, and is shaped by colonialism.
Links**
Taller Salud https://en.tallersalud.com/
La Clara https://lnk.bio/PxyL; Twitter @SomosLaClara
Dr Cordelia Freeman is a political geographer, and lecturer at the University of Exeter. Her research considers the spatiality of reproductive health in Latin America, including how reproductive justice - particularly abortion access - is shaped in relation to borders and mobilities, and in the context of violence.
In this conversation, we discuss how abortion access figures as a dimension of reproductive justice in Latin America, how it is bound by legal and geographical boundaries but also transformed by the possibilities afforded by mobilities of pills and low-tech, responsive information. We also discuss the politics of abortion representation in popular culture and what’s next for abortion access fights in the region.
Dr Julieta Chaparro Buitrago is a member of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group, or ReproSoc, at the University of Cambridge. Her research encompasses fertility studies, decolonial feminisms, reproductive justice, and Latin American studies.
In this conversation, Dr Chaparro Buitrago discusses her research into questions of extractivism (especially in Cajamarca, Peru), water politics, and their fundamental relation to understandings of reproduction. This recent research responds to and extends a call for a multi-species reproductive justice - based on the notion of the interdependence of human, animal and land reproduction.
We also discuss the population control measures and the ‘gender-washing politics’ of President Alberto Fujimori’s administration in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Links:
Dr Chaparro-Buitrago’s published work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kDUhAVQAAAAJ&hl=en
ReproSoc Cambridge: https://www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk/
In this episode we talk to Dr Elise Andaya, a cultural medical anthropologist and associate professor at State University of New York in Albany. Dr Andaya’s research encompasses questions relating to reproductive health care, kinship, gender, and health policy and health inequalities in Cuba and the United States. In this conversation, we discuss the ethnographic work that led to her 2014 monograph, Conceiving Cuba: Women, Reproduction and the State in the Contemporary Era, the intersection of policy and reproductive choices in revolutionary Cuba, declining birth rates and her current research projects into COVID-era reproductive health disparities and the impact of health policy on pregnant minority service workers in New York City.
Links:
Conceiving Cuba: Women, Reproduction and the State in the Contemporary Era: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/conceiving-cuba/9780813565194
This episode is a recording of a roundtable discussion that took place during the ‘Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America’ conference on Zoom, 14-15th January 2021. The roundtable was chaired by Dr. Rachell Sánchez Rivera and included Hannah S. Borboleta, midwife, activist, and founder of the Morada Violeta clinic, Jaime Géliga, researcher and drag performance artist, Alexandra-Marie Figueroa, communications director of Taller Salud Puerto Rico. The panel discussed a range of topics, including links between masculinities and parenthood, the coloniality of reproductive rights struggles, machismo, cultural notions surrounding bodily autonomy and sexuality, controversies relating to midwifery models of care in Mexico, and intersectionality and positionality in activism. They also questioned how activists can include - through culture - those who have often been marginalised from reproductive justice questions, and what sort of transnational connections across the region are forged through activism relating to sexual and reproductive rights. This roundtable discussion is in Spanish and English.
Professor Laura Briggs teaches and researches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is an authoritative voice in several fields relating to reproductive politics across the Americas. She is the author of several monographs, including the landmark 2003 book Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, the 2017 book How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump, and most recently, Taking Children: A History of American Terror.
In this broad-ranging conversation, we discuss the many ways that reproduction shapes politics, and vice versa. Professor Briggs first describes how neoliberalism intensifies and distorts care labour. We also discuss the separation of children from their families by paramilitaries during the Guatemalan civil war, in processes that became monetised through the transnational adoption industry. The conversation also centres on how race science intersected with empire and reproductive control in Puerto Rico, and how historic dynamics weigh on contemporary debates surrounding reproduction - such as representations of the nation as a “welfare island”.
Latin American countries have some of the world’s most contentious reproductive health laws and policies, and there are persistent challenges in the quest for reproductive justice. The lived realities of reproduction are mediated and shaped by political and legal frameworks and determined by economic, cultural, and social dynamics.
Cuerpa Politica is a podcast about reproductive health, politics, and justice in Latin America, funded by the Institute of Latin American Studies and co-hosted by Dr. Rebecca Ogden and Dr. Rachell Sanchez Rivera.
It is an exploration of reproduction in Latin America through a series of conversations with activists, practitioners, artists, and researchers working in many different contexts and disciplines.
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