Love colleagues in US fighting the good fight on fertility.
Hate journos saying this: “The fertility rate is a statistic describing whether each generation has enough children to replace itself — about 2.1 kids per woman”
No. It’s just a statistic. 2.1 as “enough” is a *bad* interpretation of it.
A real privilege to have worked with such an incredible team of people on this:
“Rohingya women’s knowledge and perceptions about pregnancy termination in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: A community-based study”
www.guttmacher.org/article/2025...
This Wednesday!! Come along 😊
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I hate the term “bigorexia” almost as much as I hate the marketing of “man sized” tissue boxes.
Overlooking different manifestations of body dysmorphia has always been a political choice and not a function of lack of evidence / visibility (cf Mary Beard on ancient Greek statues we’ve all seen)
"Japan will need far more workers in the coming decades to maintain even modest growth."
A major problem with our economic system is that it requires perpetual population [worker] growth to function. Increasing political efforts to force births cannot be disconnected from this.
If you think birthrates are a problem then you have a problem but birthrates aren’t it. Probably it’s a policy problem that you’re too chic to address.
Glad to see @lesja.bsky.social quoted here, but the premise that the left isn't in the convo about birth rates & things that help families...🤬. The left talks about parental leave, about childcare, about housing, about wages, about healthcare ALL THE TIME. 1/
The French newspaper Le Figaro with the headline "Démographie: pourquoi la dénatalité s'aggrave en France"
The French newspaper Le Monde with the headline: "Plus de décès que de naissances en France"
French headlines today: demographic panic as deaths > births in 2025
Political flashpoints mentioned: immigration as current driver of population growth & pension fragility
Will response buck trend towards anti-women, white supremacist policies and focus on system adaptation for the existing pop?
A male MEP in Germany is trying to connect male contraceptives to promote anti-abortion (false) narratives. 🙄
As @joestrong.bsky.social perfectly put it: 'male contraceptives must *never* be a tool to undermine women + people who can become pregnant.'
Read more below 👇
Incoming male contraceptives (after decades of being 'just around the corner') must be rooted in the politics reproductive justice. Otherwise, they risk becoming yet another instrument of misogyny and eugenics that poisons sexual and reproductive health
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Instrumentalising male contraceptives because of anti-abortion politics is bad. Not only does it weaponise contraceptives as a tool to undermine abortion, it is fundamentally anti bodily autonomy.
Male contraceptives must *never* be a tool to undermine women + people who can become pregnant
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X is the megaphone of 21st century fascism and authoritariansim. It has poisoned public debate. It is a tool for bullying, abuse, and assault. X needs to disappear from our discourse. When people and institutions post there, it gives X credibility. It keeps it relevant. It's time to stop.
Thank GOODNESS for the person who moderates the email listserv and did not send it out - I am pro my own censorship on this occassion 😂😅
I am so excited to be part of this event on the Global Politics of Abortion with the fabulous Dr Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Sarah of Ad’iyah Collective, Prof Sophie Harman & Dr Sydney Calkin
28th January. Be there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-pol...
@qmulsse.bsky.social @profsophieharman.bsky.social
The *FIRST* email I send post leave and it is an accidental reply all to a whole staff email. Good morning, life.
Congratulations Dr Baafi @josephineabaafi.bsky.social ! A huge achievement - celebrate well!
✉️ The SOC-MISC project launches a newsletter!
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
Looking forward to this!
Thrilled to be at #ICFP in #Bogota to chat all things #SRHR #Gender #Abortion #Politics hit me up!
I'll be presenting on (1) the politics of data in male engagement, (2) how data tools construct gendered realities, and (3) how surveys can be more feminist in understanding effects. Come find me!
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social
Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇
Oh my god this sounds so good
"But it’s not just abortion, it is part of a larger anti-rights issue"
Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
On #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, and as attacks escalate and mis/dis-information spreads, a reminder: this starter pack can help get you started in finding some excellent Bluesky accounts sharing data & information on sexual and reproductive health.
go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj
My current work on the politics of data, invisibility, and gender in sexual and reproductive health is funded by the amazing @leverhulme.ac.uk 4/4
For most people, reproduction is relational and involves other people (not to mention communities). We ignore the interpersonal, social, and sturctural obstacles to having children at our peril.
The lack of data is a huge contributor to that. Making a problem invisible doesn't make it go away! 3/3
But we are falling short when we talk about barriers to people having the children they want and focusing on solely on women [and other ppl who can get pregnant].
Policies then burden women with 'solutions', and it all reeks of the misogyny of once again trying to control women's bodies 2/3
Great to speak to @theguardian.com's Rhiannon Cosslett about men, children, and fertility
tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@qmul.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
I'm going to be spending a lot more time in sunny(?) #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and would love to meet folks here for coffee. If you or someone you know is based here let me know and I would love to connect!
Especially any folks working in #SRHR #GlobalHealth or #Demography!
