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 😊

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 https://bit.ly/4rgLQdB

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

Leigh Senderowicz@lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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!

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!

📣 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!

Feminist Demography Collective@feministdemography.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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...

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...

PAA 2026 Pre-Conference & Call for Submissions! | femdem

Submit your abstract for flash talk NOW! Deadline: March 15th.

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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!

📣 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

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!

Journal of Critical Public Health@cphjournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

📔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...

👏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...

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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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!

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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📢 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/...

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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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!!

Population Association of America@popassocamerica.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026: www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

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!!

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

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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📢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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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/

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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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/

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.

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...

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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Dave Vanness@djvanness.bsky.social · last yr.

FWIW, the text now appears on p. 156 of the final bill .pdf (available here: www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...)

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...?

Growing up means realizing that Kevin, not Nick or Brian, is actually the best Backstreet Boy

🌍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...

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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Here's the link to listen: www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

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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Karen Benjamin Guzzo@karenguzzo.bsky.social · last yr.

Tomorrow (4/30), I'll be on @nprfreshair.bsky.social with @badnewshagen.bsky.social to discuss the US pronatalist movement - why it's *deeply* problematic and unlikely to actually increase birth rates.

Is RFK going to somehow negatively polarize me into becoming a fan of big pharma

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

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA@readdemography.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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...

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!!

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri@rishie.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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...

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 · last yr.

In our intro to the SI, we call for forging a new agenda... to carefully account for how/where these projects and our commitments to justice might allow us a step closer to realising our visions of justice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 3/