Save the dates [March 4 & 6]: Two WGSS events in connection with International Women's Day 2025
Sutton, Barbara
Tuesday, March 4th from 4:30pm to 6pm in the Standish Room, Science Library, University at Albany (uptown campus)
Panel to Speak on Local Birth Justice Activism
Come hear Sherisa Moore, Nakia Tillman, and Sade Lubin, representatives of Albany’s local birth justice organization, who will reflect on the successful effort to save Rensselaer County’s only maternal health center (the Burdett Birth Center), on the conditions of work for doulas of color, and the experience of pregnancy care and birthing for racially marginalized communities in Albany.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); Institute for Research on Women (IROW); the Choice Coalition; and the Maternal Health Certificate (MCH) program, College of Integrated Health Sciences.
Thursday, March 6th from 4:30-6pm in Humanities 354, University at Albany (uptown campus)
Elon Musk Wants You to Have More Babies: How Population Panic Inflames Today’s Politics of Immigration, Reproduction and Nationalism
Elon Musk is fueling panic about too few babies and the so-called great replacement. Paul Ehrlich, long-time spreader of population bomb alarmism, stokes fears that overpopulation is driving climate collapse. In this talk, Policy Analyst Anne Hendrixson will show how these panics misrepresent population trends and contribute to a dangerous politics of us-and-them. This us-and-them thinking feeds anti-immigrant attitudes and xenophobia and it promotes childbearing as a way to sustain national identity. Hendrixson explores what this means for reproductive justice.
Anne Hendrixson is the Senior Policy Analyst for Challenging Population Control, a program of Collective Power for Reproductive Justice. Hendrixson researches, writes and speaks on issues of population control, eugenics, and “overpopulation” politics. She co-edited a 2020 themed section of Gender, Place & Culture, a feminist journal of geography, and co-authored its introduction, “Confronting Populationism: Feminist Challenges to Population Control in an Era of Climate Change.” Other recent publications include “Challenging the ‘Lifeboat Discourse’ on Population and Migration” in the Elgar Handbook on Forced Migration (2023) and “Threat and Burdens: Challenging scarcity-driven narratives of ‘overpopulation,’” Geoforum, 101, (2019).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), Institute for Research on Women (IROW), and the Choice Coalition.
Sutton, Barbara
Tuesday, March 4th from 4:30pm to 6pm in the Standish Room, Science Library, University at Albany (uptown campus)
Panel to Speak on Local Birth Justice Activism
Come hear Sherisa Moore, Nakia Tillman, and Sade Lubin, representatives of Albany’s local birth justice organization, who will reflect on the successful effort to save Rensselaer County’s only maternal health center (the Burdett Birth Center), on the conditions of work for doulas of color, and the experience of pregnancy care and birthing for racially marginalized communities in Albany.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); Institute for Research on Women (IROW); the Choice Coalition; and the Maternal and Child Health program, College of Integrated Health Sciences.
