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Television:

– CBS News appearance discussing a New Yorker story on why we do not yet have safety and efficacy data for how the Covid-19 vaccine affects pregnant people and their developing fetuses. (02.12.21)

Radio + podcasts:

– On The Cut’s podcast with B.A. Parker, discussing the ethical quandaries of “freeze and share” egg freezing programs, in which women get free egg freezing services in exchange for giving away half of the eggs retrieved from their bodies. (12.01.21)

– On KPCC’s AirTalk with Larry Mantle, discussing a New York Times story on the true value of “women’s work,” and the radical concept of “comparable worth.” (11.19.20)

– Joining The New York Times podcast The Argument discussing declining birth rates, modern relationships, and other themes from the Sunday Review story “The End of Babies.” (12.05.19)

– Appearing with Radicals & Revolutionaries Lab podcast host Jillian Foster to discuss why people find it hard to create families, valuing care work and questioning what we count as “productive,” and why reproductive decisions need to be discussed as a matter of individual lives, not macro-level data. (07.19.2021)

Panel discussions:

– Discussing and interrogating the right to have a child with reproductive justice pioneer Loretta Ross and Dr. Karen Stote in a panel on “Reproductive Justice Beyond Abortion”, part of the Feminist Frontiers event hosted by Continuum Collective (02.03.21)

– Appearing on the Plough magazine’s event, “The Case for One More Child: Why Large Families Will Save Humanity,” with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, Leah Libresco Sargent, and Sarah C. Williams, I asked: Pronatalism for who? (01.21.21)