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Leigh Senderowicz

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Public health & feminist demography | Reproductive coercion and autonomy | What we measure & why | Assistant Professor @ UW Madison | She/her | Views my own

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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Had the *best* time running the Critical #Demography workshop last week. So many ideas and so much energy to push our field forward. Thank you @bspsuk.bsky.social for the amazing sponsorship. Stay tuned for the next steps 😊
Picture of the attendees of the BSPS Critical Demography workshop. 

First row L-R: Michaela Sedovic, Rose Stevens, Ruth Neville, Laura Sochas, Joe Strong, Leigh Senderowicz, Sonali Silva, Rebecca Sear

Second row L-R: Victor Emmanuel, Zuzana Dancikova, Lara Patricio Tavares, Jenny Chanfreau, Claire Calvel, Magda Muter, Hampton Gaddy, P Linh Nguyen, Cicely Marston
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Population Studies Center @pennpsc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Don't miss Monday's PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM! MON | 3/16 | 12 - 1PM | McNeil 403 Leigh Senderowicz (@lsenderowicz.bsky.social ) U of Wisconsin-Madison and @feministdemography.bsky.social Taking the Population Control Out of Reproductive Health Measurement bit.ly/4rgLQdB
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Y'all I am in this postdoc *right now* and it has been amazing. I am very sad to leave (although excited for what is to come) - and happy to chat with anyone considering applying! I love @uwmadison.bsky.social <3
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We're recruiting a new cohort of postdocs focusing on health disparities research for our NIH-funded T32. pophealth.wisc.edu/health-dispa... Interested candidates should feel free to reach out!
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Health Disparities Research Scholars
OUR VISION The goal of the HDRS Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program is to foster training opportunities for the next generation of investigators within health disparities research, with a focus o...
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
📣 Registration for our Feminist Demography pre-conference workshop at #PAA2026 is now live! 🔎 Learn more: www.feministdemography.org/event-list 📝 Register: tinyurl.com/ktsh4b3s 🎤 Submit a flash talk: tinyurl.com/z3napf3a Please share widely!
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Feminist Demography Collective @feministdemography.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Registration for the 2026 Feminist Demography Workshop (a PAA Pre-Conference) is now live! Registration is free. Join us on May 6th, 9am-5pm in St. Louis! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/15Kk... Full details, including schedule: www.feministdemography.org/event-detail...
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PAA 2026 Pre-Conference & Call for Submissions! | femdem
Submit your abstract for flash talk NOW! Deadline: March 15th.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Fellow #demographers - coming to #PAA2026 ? 🤓 💫 Please save the date for the Feminist Demography Pre-Conference Workshop! Wednesday 5/6/2026 9-5pm CST in-person at PAA! Flash talks! A moderated panel discussion! And a social hour to connect with fellow feminist demography colleagues!
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
📣 Save the date! Feminist Demography Pre-PAA Workshop hosted by @feministdemography.bsky.social 🗓️ Wed, May 6, 2026 | 9am–5pm CST 📍 America’s Center, St. Louis ✨ Flash talks, panel discussion, community building, social hour, and more Everyone is welcome! Registration info coming soon
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I have a new article out in special issue on reproductive vulnerabilities! My piece examines how a community of (anonymized) African women makes sense of the contraceptive coercion they experience, using the lenses of gendered vulnerability and imperial feminism The whole issue looks incredible!
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‘When they force a woman, it’s to save her life’: Gendered vulnerability and contraceptive coercion | Journal of Critical Public Health
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UW-Madison CDE @cdeuw.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
📔New #publication in Contraception and Reproductive Medicine from CDE affiliate @lsenderowicz.bsky.social suggests that many women in Kisumu report experiencing some form of provider-imposed contraceptive coercion ➡️Read more here: doi.org/10.1186/s408...
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UW-Madison CDE @cdeuw.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
👏New #publication in American Journal of Public Health from CDE affiliates Jenny Higgins and @lsenderowicz.bsky.social ➡️“A Measure Aligned With Reproductive Justice, Human Rights, and Sexual Well-Being…? Yes Please, and Here’s Why” doi.org/10.2105/AJPH...
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A Measure Aligned With Reproductive Justice, Human Rights, and Sexual Well-Being…? Yes Please, and Here’s Why | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 9
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
WE'RE HIRING! The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions Please share widely!
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Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE) @wisccore.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
📢 An @amjpublichealth.bsky.social editorial from CORE scholars Jenny Higgins, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social and Diana Carvajal celebrates how a new measure of sexual and reproductive wellbeing from Christine Dehlendorf and team could improve equity and science. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...
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A Measure Aligned With Reproductive Justice, Human Rights, and Sexual Well-Being…? Yes Please, and Here’s Why | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 9
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
So excited that the #PAA2026 call includes a dedicated session on: **Heterodox, Feminist, and Critical Perspectives on Demography** Get your submissions ready for session 917 and please share widely!!
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
CALLING ALL DEMOGRAPHERS/POPULATION SCIENTISTS I am thrilled to share that the #PAA2026 call for papers is now out and includes a dedicated session on: **Heterodox, Feminist, and Critical Perspectives on Demography** It's session 917 so get your submissions ready and share widely!!
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Call for Papers - PAA 2026 Annual Meeting
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Feminist Economics @feministeconomics.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In the introduction to the Special Issue on Global Reproductive Justice @rishie.bsky.social‬, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Wendy Sigle outline how the RJ framework was developed and how it extends how reproductive rights are approached by feminist scholars and activists. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3mxp4a78
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Global Reproductive Justice: A New Agenda for Feminist Economics?
This special issue focuses on reproductive justice (RJ) as a framework for feminist research and activism. The introduction provides an overview of when and why the RJ framework was developed, outl...
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Feminist Economics @feministeconomics.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
📢Now in Feminist Economics: "A Special Issue on Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics" edited by @rishie.bsky.social, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Wendy Sigle. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfec20/31/1 🎥Fireside Chat: tinyurl.com/zm7mrk9u We'll feature key articles over the next weeks
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A Special Issue on Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics. Volume 31, Issue 1 of Feminist Economics
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Journalists often ask for my thoughts on the contemporary US pronatalist movement. My assessment is based on my expertise and training as a social demographer, and my own research on childbearing behaviors at the individual and aggregate levels. Strap in, b/c I've got a lot to say. 1/
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a woman says let 's get into it with a pinkvilla logo in the background
ALT: a woman says let 's get into it with a pinkvilla logo in the background
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I remain sceptical of abortion decrim through carceral frameworks that expand police powers, particularly when we see increasing police guidance (governance!) on abortion. I don’t see how we achieve reproductive freedom by tying ourselves to these logics. These, to me, aren’t wise compromises.
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Making graduate school harder to access is part of a very deliberate strategy to raise the “married birth rate” The idea is that making higher ed scarcer will prevent women from wasting prime fertile years on education and other useless pursuits Nightmare fuel: www.heritage.org/education/re...
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Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate
The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to 1.6,
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
1/ Is population collapsing? It felt like time to process some of my #demography feelings about recent #population panic. While demographers don't endorse generational labels (ahem @philipncohen.com),for this GenXer there will always be Princess Bride memes. open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...?
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Growing up means realizing that Kevin, not Nick or Brian, is actually the best Backstreet Boy
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UW-Madison CDE @cdeuw.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🌍New #publication in BMJ Journals from CDE affiliate Leigh Senderowicz & colleagues ➡️ “Measuring misaligned contraceptive use among reproductive-aged women in Kisumu, Kenya: a cross-sectional, population-based study” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Measuring misaligned contraceptive use among reproductive-aged women in Kisumu, Kenya: a cross-sectional, population-based study
Global family planning scholars have critiqued traditional measures of programmatic success and called for new, person-centred measures that consider people’s preferences. We propose a new measure tha...
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Here's the link to listen: www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...
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What's behind the 'pronatalist' movement to boost the birth rate?
A once-fringe movement claims having more babies is the only way to save civilization. NPR reporter Lisa Hagen and sociologist Karen Guzzo explain who's empowering pronatalism today.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Is RFK going to somehow negatively polarize me into becoming a fan of big pharma
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We couldn't have known when we started this paper that the data source it relies on would be obliterated by the time it came out I think this paper showcases what the DHS does best -- understanding big trends across time and space 1/4
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Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Among Adolescent Women in 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries | Demography | Duke University Press
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In “Contraceptive Use & Discontinuation,” C. Busse, K. Tumlinson & @lsenderowicz.bsky.social describe how “adolescent women have distinct contraceptive dynamics, method mix & reasons for discontinuation." @uncpopcenter.bsky.social @uncpublichealth.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I will be in conversation with two very brilliant minds about the ways that feminist economics (and positivist research frameworks, more generally) can engage with the Reproductive Justice framework. Please join us!!
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Wendy Sigle, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & I will be in conversation with Mary Borrowman (CGD) about the Si, and why we think this is a critical moment for engaging with these questions of FE & RJ. Date: 1st April 2025, 1500-1615 (UK) Spanish interpretation available. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Fireside Chat: Reflections on the new Feminist Economics special issue on “Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics”. After registering, you will ...
Please join us for the next event in IAFFE’s Fireside Chat series with the editors of the recently released special issue of Feminist Economics on global reproductive justice. Editors Rishita Nandagir...
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Special Issue on "Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics" is IN PRESS! I learnt so much (as a non-economist, as a scholar) from our incredible contributors & from my enormously talented co-guest editors @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Prof Sigle (LSE). 🧵1/
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The idea seems to be that if you just keep pointing out the hypocrisy, eventually it’ll do something?
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We have a new special issue focusing on global reproductive justice We want to use this issue to challenge feminist economists & other scholars to engage seriously with the possibilities and rigors of the RJ framework I wish the topic weren’t quite so timely… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Reproductive Justice: A New Agenda for Feminist Economics?
This special issue focuses on reproductive justice (RJ) as a framework for feminist research and activism. The introduction provides an overview of when and why the RJ framework was developed, outl...
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Scientists need to realize this list will grow. It used to be abortion and climate change. Staying quiet won’t keep your area off lists like this.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
i need less decorum and more “home game in philadelphia” when it comes to the energy in the room.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 04/03/2025
Telling MAGA there are better ways to raise birthrates is exactly what no one should do www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Forget ‘return to office,’ Mr. President. That’s no way to fix a baby bust.
If the federal government became relentlessly pro-baby, we’d see more family formation.
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Every once in while I'm reminded that this dystopian Disney short on population control from 1968 exists www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Dk...
Animation frame of Donald Duck painting a picture of multiplying people on a canvas
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If you’ve been looking for a non-shitty, non-misogynist take on pronatalism from actual experts, look no further! (Taking part in this webinar is one of my favorite things that I’ve done all year)
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Pronatalism is a classic population panic, based on regressive ideas and bad demography. In this webinar, three demographers (@lesja.bsky.social @lsenderowicz.bsky.social and me) break it down. Passcode: 60N#t1y
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Is anyone writing about the defunding of USAID/UNFPA other global SRH orgs in a way that challenges global health white savior myths? Devt orgs=good or devt orgs=bad isn’t cutting it and I’d love something to assign to my students
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I've been as critical of the DHS as anybody, but the loss of these data and the cruelty with which these actions are taken makes my blood run cold
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
My new substack on the sex and gender Executive Order is out. #science #transrights #lgbtqstem #feministsky sterlinga.substack.com/p/biological...
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Biological truth? WTF? (Part 2)
Shell game: a fraud or deception perpetrated by shifting conspicuous things to hide something else
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A perfect example of how we can ONLY understand "pronatalism" in the context of eugenics. There's no other way to make sense of this.
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I'm quoted in an article on pronatalism in the New Yorker & while I'm happy with my quote I wish the piece did more to question very premise of the "debate" Because the question isn't really pro or antinatalism but rather pronatalism for whom and antinatalism for whom? And there, RJ has answers
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It's me. Hi. I'm the contemptuous harpy, it's me.
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Reading The Anti-Politics Machine in college was one of the most impactful things I've ever done stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...
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James Ferguson, professor of anthropology and former department chair, dies at 65
James “Jim” Ferguson played a pivotal roles in the department and will be remembered for his character and kindness.
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UW-Madison CDE @cdeuw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
‼️Published TODAY from @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & @rishie.bsky.social "Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning" in @tandfonline.bsky.social ➡️View a key figure & read the full article below: doi.org/10.1080/0032...
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New article from two of my favorite thinkers in this area, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social and @rishie.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning
Widely credited with ending population control and ushering in a new era of reproductive rights, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action also incl...
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I can *finally* cross this paper off my to-do list. doi.org/10.1080/0032... i still pinch myself that @lsenderowicz.bsky.social trusted a virtual (!) stranger with her deep thinking & work on this. she has an excellent thread on the backstory to this paper: bsky.app/profile/lsen... 1/12
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Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning
Widely credited with ending population control and ushering in a new era of reproductive rights, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action also incl...
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A paper I've been working on for quite literally 10 years just came out It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper! 1/n www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning
Widely credited with ending population control and ushering in a new era of reproductive rights, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action also incl...
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