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Episode 07: Craft Fertilities

In our final episode, Mianna Meskus interviews Riikka Homanen and Elina Helosvuori about craftwork in IVF laboratories and their recent publication 'When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry'.

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Episode 06: The Fertility Industry

In our sixth episode, Lucy van de Wiel interviews Joyce Harper about her experience working within the fertility industry and about her recent book 'Your Fertile Years' which advocates for better fertility care through higher levels of fertility awareness across society.

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Culture Repro Soc Culture Repro Soc

Episode 03: Queer & Trans (In)Fertilities

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.

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Episode 01: ‘Fertinomics’

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.

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