An interview series exploring what a feminist intersectional analysis of fertility looks like, and what it can tell us.

In our fifth episode, Zeynep Gurtin interviews Marcia Inhorn about her forthcoming book on egg freezing in the United States.

In our fourth episode, Julieta Chaparro is in conversation with Laura Briggs, whose extensive work has explored the connections between reproduction and US imperialism, transnational feminisms, and reproductive politics.

In our third episode, Marcin Smietana interviews Damien Riggs about his extensive reproductive research including foster care, transgender fertility, human kinship and critical animal studies, gay surrogacy, race, masculinity - and about the individual stories as well as shared logics that underpinned all of Damien's projects.

Katie Dow interviews Janelle Lamoreaux about the anthropology of fertility in the age of toxic environments, epigenetic mapping and the population ‘problem’.

In this opening episode of our series, Sarah Franklin interviews Sigrid Vertommen about transactional fertility, global fertility chains, and  the reproductive industrial complex based on Siggie’s extensive research on this topic around the globe.