Host Francesca Amiker sits down with directors Joe and Anthony Russo, producer Angela Russo-Otstot, stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, and more to uncover how family was the key to building the emotional core of The Electric State . From the Russos’ own experiences growing up in a large Italian family to the film’s central relationship between Michelle and her robot brother Kid Cosmo, family relationships both on and off of the set were the key to bringing The Electric State to life. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . State Secrets: Inside the Making of The Electric State is produced by Netflix and Treefort Media.…
Cuerpa Politica is a podcast about reproductive health, politics, and justice in Latin America, funded by the Institute of Latin American Studies and co-hosted by, Dr Rebecca Ogden, lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Kent and Dr R. Sanchez-Rivera, Research Fellow in Gonville & Caius College and Affiliate Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Cuerpa Politica explores reproduction in Latin America through a series of conversations with activists, practitioners, artists, and researchers working in many different contexts.
Cuerpa Politica is a podcast about reproductive health, politics, and justice in Latin America, funded by the Institute of Latin American Studies and co-hosted by, Dr Rebecca Ogden, lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Kent and Dr R. Sanchez-Rivera, Research Fellow in Gonville & Caius College and Affiliate Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Cuerpa Politica explores reproduction in Latin America through a series of conversations with activists, practitioners, artists, and researchers working in many different contexts.
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...…
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 q...…
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 ...…
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 pol...…
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 relac...…
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 discu...…
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....…
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 F...…
Dr. Leandra H. Hernández is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Utah Valley University. She is the co-author of Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Americas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights (2018) and the co-editor of This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzalduan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis (2019) and Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving amidst Uncertainty (2019). In this episod...…
Dr Jasmine Gideon is a Reader in Gender, Health and International Development at Birkbeck, University of London. Dr Gideon is the author of several articles as well as the monographs Gender, globalization, and health in a Latin American context and Handbook on gender and health (2016) and co-author of two books in 2020, Critical reflections on Public Private Partnerships and Motherhood, social policies and women's activism in Latin America. This episode explores Dr Gideon’s research interests...…
Dr Karen Tucker is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the colonial knowledge politics that shape encounters with indigenous knowledges, bodies and worlds, and the decolonial practices that reveal and remake them. As well as the global governance of ‘traditional knowledge’, Dr Tucker has researched legacies of forced sterilisation in Peru in the award-winning Quipu Project (quipu-project.com), and peace activism in Peru and Colombi...…
Professor Barbara Sutton is based in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, at University at Albany. Professor Sutton's scholarly interests include body politics, human rights, collective memory, globalization, and women's activism particularly in Latin American contexts. In this episode, Professor Sutton gives an overview of the history of reproductive politics in Argentina, citing periods of military dictatorship, economic crises and the recent ‘marea verde’ or ‘green t...…
Dr Clarissa Borges is an artist and teacher. In 2019, she received her doctorate in Social History from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where she is currently professor of Visual Arts. Her artistic work explores themes relating to motherhood, childbirth, and sexuality, through photography and video installation. In this conversation, we discuss the context of constrained childbirth choices in Brazil, photography as a means of communicating pain, pleasure, intim...…
Dr Anne Carruthers is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University where she teaches film studies. Her research interests lie in phenomenologies, narrative, and close textual analysis, and she has published on how pregnancy, the pregnant body, and the physical are explored in film. In this conversation, we talk about her new book titled Fertile Visions: The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas, published by Bloomsbury. We discuss the uteru...…
Dr Tatiana Sanchez Parra is Assistant Professor at the Pensar Institute of Social and Cultural Studies at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. Working at the intersection of feminist socio-legal studies, anthropology of violence, and medical anthropology, her research explores gender-based, sexual, and reproductive violence in contexts of war and political transition. Currently, she is part of the gender advisory committee of the Colombian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, for which ...…
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