Ana Casas Broda es fotógrafa, escritora, gestora, docente, editora y comisaria, radicada en México desde 1974. Su obra gira en torno a su autobiografía y la construcción de la identidad. Los principales temas en su trabajo son la memoria, el cuerpo, la familia, el archivo, la genealogía y la maternidad. Es autora de dos libros: Álbum, de 2000, y Kinderwunsch de 2013. Sus obras se han expuesto en México, Austria, Reino Unido, Estados Unidos, Bélgica, Polonia, Uruguay, China, y Argentina, entre otros países.

En este episodio, tratamos con la exploraciones de la maternidad y feminidad en su obra fotográfica, sus decisiones artísticas y las reacciones que ha provocado su serie Kinderwunsch.

https://www.anacasasbroda.com/biografia
Hydra: https://hydra.lat/
Birth Rites Collection: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/the-collection-1/ana-casas-broda

Diana Vite Hernández es de México y se autoidentifca como una mujer feminista con discapasidad visual. Vite Hernández estudió la licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales en la UNAM y la maestría en Filosofía de la Cultura en la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Ella actualmente pertenece a la Red Nacional de Feministas con Discapacidad (FEMIDISCAS) y al GT en Estudios Críticos en Discapacidad de CLACSO. 

Asimismo ha colaborado en diversos proyectos de la sociedad civil que se encuentran ligadas a la defensa de los derechos de las juventudes, población callejera y mujeres con discapacidad. Por ejemplo, en el año 2020 colaboró en la creación de contenidos para una aplicación de celular relativa a la prevención y atención de la violencia hacia mujeres con discapacidad. 

Los temas que Diana sentipiensa y comparte a través de su escritura y también como docente y tallerista son: feminismos críticos, cuerpo y fragilidad, prácticas contracapacitistas, perspectiva crítica en discapacidad e imbricación de opresiones. 

Publicaciones: 

Tesis(2020): “El goce de lo disca. Desafiando a la autosuficiencia: una dimensión contracapacitista de la fragilidad a través de mi experiencia”. Disponible en: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AutdWd85FN-R3tuGRjnlaAtanupD--IK/view?usp=sharing 

Tesis(2015): “Cuerpos sororos: una perspectiva de género en la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad”. Disponible en: https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/cuerpos-sororos-una-perspectiva-de-genero-en-la-convencion-sobre-los-derechos-de-las-personas-con-discapacidad-168505?c=BDq7M2&d=false&q=*:*&i=2&v=1&t=search_0&as=0  

Vite Hernández, D. (2020). “La fragilidad como resistencia contracapacitista: de agencia y experiencia situada”. En Nómadas(52), pp. 13-27. Disponible en: http://nomadas.ucentral.edu.co/nomadas/pdf/nomadas_52/52_1V_La_fragilidad_como_resistencia_contracapacitista.pdf  

Vite Hernández, D. (2020). “Notas sentidas de una imaginación erótica no ocularcéntrica”. En Hysteria Revista (33). Disponible en:  https://hysteria.mx/notas-sentidas-de-una-imaginacion-erotica-no-ocularcentrica/  

Dr Lina-Maria Murillo is an Assistant Professor in the Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies and History Department at the University of Iowa. Her work focuses on the intersections of reproductive freedom, race, gender, class, and sexuality, as well as immigration and Latinx subjectivities.  She is currently completing her manuscript titled Fighting for Control: Reproductive Care, Race, and Power in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. In this episode, we discuss her research into the twentieth century history of the birth control movement in El Paso, how the threat of ‘Mexicanization’ of Texas was articulated, and the role of eugenic feminism in birth control at the borderland. 

Elva F. Orozco Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women and Gender studies at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Orozco Mendoza was a 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow at The Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Her work has been published by Theory and Event, New Political Science, The Journal of Latin American Geography, and Philosophy and Global Affairs. In this episode, we discuss Dr Orozco Mendoza’s interdisciplinary research on femicide in Ciudad Juárez, reproductive politics at the US/Mexico border, the role that ‘protest objects’ play in the resistance and quest against gender violence, as well as her original concept of the maternal contract. 

Links:
Orozco Mendoza, E. (2021). On Hearing the Daughters’ Call: Feminicide, Freedom, and Maternal Collective Action in Northern Mexico. Philosophy and Global Affairs, 1(1), 123-155.

Orozco, E. F. (2019). Mapping the Trail of Violence: The Memorialization of Public Space as a Counter-Geography of Violence in Ciudad Juárez. Journal of Latin American Geography, 18(3), 132-157.

Orozco Mendoza, E. F. (2019). Las Madres De Chihuahua: Maternal Activism, Public Disclosure, and the Politics of Visibility. New Political Science, 41(2), 211-233.

Orozco Mendoza, E. F. (2015). Undying Protests: On Collective Action and Practices of Resistance against Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez.
 

En este episodio hablamos con Sara Garcia Gross. Sara es activista Feminista, psicóloga y máster en derechos humanos. Actualmente es Coordinadora de alianzas e incidencia política de Agrupación Ciudadana por la despenalización del aborto en El Salvador. En este episodio, Sara explica los objetivos de la organización, el contexto de criminalización del aborto y de las emergencias obstétricas en el que trabaja. Tambien hablamos de cómo ha exacerbado la pandemia las inequidades sociales en relación con la injusticia reproductiva en El Salvador, y los vínculos entre grupos activistas en la region. 

Links:

Agrupación Ciudadana por la despenalización del aborto en El Salvador: https://agrupacionciudadana.org/

Podcast - Centroamerica unida y resistiendo: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Q6Imga48FwHrSEw5Df4yq

Dr Rebecca Smyth is a Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University, specialising in international human rights law. She focuses on women’s and LGBTQ* rights, and the (sometimes productive) tensions arising from historically oppressed groups engaging with the language and mechanisms of human rights. Her research has been published in the journal Feminist Review, and in the 2020 edited volume Gender Justice and the Law: Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity. In this episode we discuss the distinctiveness of reproductive politics in the Salvadoran context, including high profile cases of reproductive injustice such as those of ‘Manuela’ and Beatriz, as well as the potential and limits of rights frameworks. 

This episode was recorded on 21st October 2021. 

Dr Rebecca Smyth's profile and publications: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/law/about-us/meet-our-staff/rebecca-smyth

Dr. Natalie Lira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Dr. Lira’s research looks into the largely neglected racial aspects of California’s eugenic sterilization program by providing evidence of the disproportionate institutionalization and sterilization of Mexican-origin women and men in state hospitals for the disabled during the first half of the twentieth century. Dr. Lira is the Co-Director of the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab (SSJLAB), a multi-institutional and interdisciplinary research team based in the United States. 

In this episode, Dr. Lira discusses her work in the SSJLAB and her research into institutional reproductive constraint in the context of notions of criminality and 'feeblemindedness', as well as the legacies of those ideologies and practices today. 

Useful Links:

Sterilization and Social Justice Lab: https://www.ssjlab.org/

Lira, N. (2021). “Low mentality” and “criminal tendencies”: Race, crime and disability in the politics of Latino men’s reproduction: “Baja mentalidad” y “tendencias criminales”: La raza, el crimen y la discapacidad en la política reproductiva hacia el hombre latino. Latino Studies, 19(3), 310-333. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-021-00332-5

Lieta Vivaldi works at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Law Department. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Goldsmiths College, University of London, a Masters in sociology from the London School of Economics, a diploma in gender and violence from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of Universidad de Chile, and is qualified in Law, by the same institution. She also works as a researcher in the Center of Applied Ethics (CEDEA) at Universidad de Chile, and as an associate researcher of the Faculty of Law at Universidad Diego Portales. She is both board member and coordinator of the Research Program on Biopolitics at  the International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies, IIPSS (Santiago, Chile), and the director of the Academic Committee of the Chilean Feminist Lawyer Association (ABOFEM). Her research focuses on human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, sociology and law, biopolitics, and feminisms.

In this episode, we discuss the shape of struggles for legalised abortion in Chile, including how reproductive controls have overlapped with the rationales of neoliberalism, and political ideologies, such as during the Pinochet dictatorship, and the images or ‘political signs’ that have been alternately mobilised by feminist activists and pro-life activists in this context. 

Links: 

Casas, L., & Vivaldi, L. (2014). Abortion in Chile: the practice under a restrictive regime. Reproductive health matters, 22(44), 70-81. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1016/S0968-8080%2814%2944811-0

Vivaldi, L. (2020). Critical possibilities on social research: the abortion dispositif from a feminist perspective. Pléyade (Santiago), (25), 107-126. https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0719-36962020000100107&script=sci_arttext