Don't miss Monday's PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM!
MON | 3/16 | 12 - 1PM | McNeil 403
Leigh Senderowicz (@lsenderowicz.bsky.social ) U of Wisconsin-Madison and
@feministdemography.bsky.social
Taking the Population Control Out of Reproductive Health Measurement
https://bit.ly/4rgLQdB
Y'all I am in this postdoc *right now* and it has been amazing.
I am very sad to leave (although excited for what is to come) - and happy to chat with anyone considering applying!
I love @uwmadison.bsky.social <3
We're recruiting a new cohort of postdocs focusing on health disparities research for our NIH-funded T32.
pophealth.wisc.edu/health-dispa...
Interested candidates should feel free to reach out!
We’re hoping to build up the infrastructure to have more events in the future, including virtual ones!
📣 Registration for our Feminist Demography pre-conference workshop at #PAA2026 is now live!
🔎 Learn more: www.feministdemography.org/event-list
📝 Register: tinyurl.com/ktsh4b3s
🎤 Submit a flash talk: tinyurl.com/z3napf3a
Please share widely!
Registration for the 2026 Feminist Demography Workshop (a PAA Pre-Conference) is now live! Registration is free. Join us on May 6th, 9am-5pm in St. Louis!
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/15Kk...
Full details, including schedule: www.feministdemography.org/event-detail...
Fellow #demographers - coming to #PAA2026 ? 🤓
💫 Please save the date for the Feminist Demography Pre-Conference Workshop!
Wednesday 5/6/2026
9-5pm CST in-person at PAA!
Flash talks! A moderated panel discussion! And a social hour to connect with fellow feminist demography colleagues!
Our call for flash talk abstracts is now live!
🗓️ Due 3/15
✨ Early-career scholars are especially encouraged to submit!
CFP: tinyurl.com/yusch42m
Submit: tinyurl.com/z3napf3a
Inspiration and more on feminist demography: www.feministdemography.org
Especially excited for our session on bringing feminist approaches into quantitative methods with Christina Pao + our friends at @femquant.bsky.social
If you’ve been thinking about how to do critical, feminist quant work well, this is for you.
📣 Save the date! Feminist Demography Pre-PAA Workshop hosted by @feministdemography.bsky.social
🗓️ Wed, May 6, 2026 | 9am–5pm CST
📍 America’s Center, St. Louis
✨ Flash talks, panel discussion, community building, social hour, and more
Everyone is welcome!
Registration info coming soon
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I have a new article out in special issue on reproductive vulnerabilities!
My piece examines how a community of (anonymized) African women makes sense of the contraceptive coercion they experience, using the lenses of gendered vulnerability and imperial feminism
The whole issue looks incredible!
📔New #publication in Contraception and Reproductive Medicine from CDE affiliate @lsenderowicz.bsky.social suggests that many women in Kisumu report experiencing some form of provider-imposed contraceptive coercion
➡️Read more here:
doi.org/10.1186/s408...
👏New #publication in American Journal of Public Health from CDE affiliates Jenny Higgins and @lsenderowicz.bsky.social
➡️“A Measure Aligned With Reproductive Justice, Human Rights, and Sexual Well-Being…? Yes Please, and Here’s Why”
doi.org/10.2105/AJPH...
WE'RE HIRING!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
📢 An @amjpublichealth.bsky.social editorial from CORE scholars Jenny Higgins, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social and Diana Carvajal celebrates how a new measure of sexual and reproductive wellbeing from Christine Dehlendorf and team could improve equity and science. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...
So excited that the #PAA2026 call includes a dedicated session on:
**Heterodox, Feminist, and Critical Perspectives on Demography**
Get your submissions ready for session 917 and please share widely!!
And please note that while the session is listed under the fertility/SRH track, submissions to this session are welcome from all corners of the population sciences
CALLING ALL DEMOGRAPHERS/POPULATION SCIENTISTS
I am thrilled to share that the #PAA2026 call for papers is now out and includes a dedicated session on:
**Heterodox, Feminist, and Critical Perspectives on Demography**
It's session 917 so get your submissions ready and share widely!!
In the introduction to the Special Issue on Global Reproductive Justice @rishie.bsky.social, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Wendy Sigle outline how the RJ framework was developed and how it extends how reproductive rights are approached by feminist scholars and activists.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/3mxp4a78
📢Now in Feminist Economics: "A Special Issue on Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics" edited by @rishie.bsky.social, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Wendy Sigle.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfec20/31/1
🎥Fireside Chat: tinyurl.com/zm7mrk9u
We'll feature key articles over the next weeks
Journalists often ask for my thoughts on the contemporary US pronatalist movement. My assessment is based on my expertise and training as a social demographer, and my own research on childbearing behaviors at the individual and aggregate levels.
Strap in, b/c I've got a lot to say. 1/
I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
I remain sceptical of abortion decrim through carceral frameworks that expand police powers, particularly when we see increasing police guidance (governance!) on abortion.
I don’t see how we achieve reproductive freedom by tying ourselves to these logics. These, to me, aren’t wise compromises.
Making graduate school harder to access is part of a very deliberate strategy to raise the “married birth rate”
The idea is that making higher ed scarcer will prevent women from wasting prime fertile years on education and other useless pursuits
Nightmare fuel: www.heritage.org/education/re...
1/ Is population collapsing?
It felt like time to process some of my #demography feelings about recent #population panic.
While demographers don't endorse generational labels (ahem @philipncohen.com),for this GenXer there will always be Princess Bride memes.
open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...?
I was part of a friend group of four girls in high school. Three of us have no kids and one of us has 8. Voila!
Growing up means realizing that Kevin, not Nick or Brian, is actually the best Backstreet Boy
🌍New #publication in BMJ Journals from CDE affiliate Leigh Senderowicz & colleagues
➡️ “Measuring misaligned contraceptive use among reproductive-aged women in Kisumu, Kenya: a cross-sectional, population-based study”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Also, yay -- a literal expert!