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2022
In Conversation… with Dr Annabel Sowewimo [WORLD…We Got This podcast, KCL]
I spoke with Dr Annabel Sowewimo for KCL’s WORLD…We Got This podcast, where we discussed how she first got into sexual reproductive health, her role as a Community Sexual Reproductive Health Registrar, and why she founded the Reproductive Justice Initiative. You can read more here. Listen to the podcast below!
Who should be a mother?: ReProductive Conversations
I spoke with colleagues at BPAS about how ‘overpopulation’ demarcates some bodies and reproduction as valued, while marking others as in need of control. Contraceptive technology, thus, becomes a tool in pushing such logics through voluntary family programmes and interventions.
This conversation draws on my paper ‘What’s so troubling about voluntary family planning anyway?’ published in Population Studies.
Roe v Wade: The global ripple effects
I spoke to LSE about the impact of overturning Roe v Wade on abortion movements and the potential bolstering of anti-abortion & populist movements worldwide.
2021
Talking about and visualising abortion research with Professor Ernestina Coast for the LSE Research Showcase 2021
Professor Ernestina Coast & I discussed our work on visualising abortion research, the conundrums we confronted, & why we think it’s important to challenge images of headless women accompanying abortion articles!
Cutting Edge Issues in International Development: Decolonising Academia with Prof Akosua Adomako Ampofo
In January 2021, I was discussant for a great lecture by Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo at LSE’s Department of International Development’s Cutting Edge Issues in International Development Lecture Series.
The Power to Say Yes, The Right to Say No: In Conversation with Dr Natalia Kanem
Hosted by LSE’s Global Health Initiative, I chaired a conversation with UNFPA’s Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem (March 2021).
2020
#28Sept Abortion Rights UK Summer School, Video
In August 2020, I participated in a lecture session for Abortion Rights UK’s Summer School where I discussed women’s understandings of abortion safety and risk. An excerpt was used for an advocacy video for September 28th, International Day of Action for Safe Abortion.
Extending 'camaraderie' and cohort identity online: #LSEEdForum
LSE’s Eden Centre, which focuses on educational enhancement, teaching and student experiences at the LSE, invited me to present at the LSE Education Forum. I presented on some of our efforts on building camaraderie within our MSc cohort at the start of the pandemic:
'Can you keep a secret?': methodological considerations for abortion research
In August 2020, I presented my work on secrecy and abortion at UCL’s Qualitative Health Research Network. “Can you keep a secret?” grapples with the paradox of secrecy in abortion research: (i) navigating secrecy to recruit participants who have terminated a pregnancy and are willing to reveal this information, while (ii) maintaining and securing that secrecy.
Ecofeminism: gender, justice, and planetary health
On this panel organised by UCL’s Centre for Gender and Global Health, I discussed some of my work on reproductive justice and focused on a critique of Neo-malthsuian emphasis on fertility control in the Global South to tackle climate emergency.
LSE-Oxford Seminar Series: Health, Poverty and Human Development
LSE’s Department of International Development & Oxford’s Department of International Development hosted a series of seminars on considering international development in times of pandemic.
I was on a panel on health and poverty with Dr Sabina Alkire (Oxford), and tag-teamed on our presentation on abortion and reproductive health during COVID-19 with Professor Ernestina Coast (LSE).