Dr Nayla Luz Vacarezza is an Associate Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina and is currently a Visiting Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. Her work takes a transnational approach to analyzing the cultural, visual, and affective dimensions of abortion rights struggles in Latin America. Through this process, she seeks to create hybrid spaces of collaboration between feminist research, activism, and artistic practices. She is the author of Las pasiones alegres del feminismo. O cómo agitar la imaginación política contemporánea [The Joyful Passions of Feminism: How to Shake Up Contemporary Political Imagination], published by Siglo Veintiuno Editores in 2025.
Dr Cordelia Freeman is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research is on reproductive justice in Latin America with a particular focus on abortion activism and practice surrounding the abortion pill misoprostol and the accompaniment practices that facilitate access to it. This is the focus of her recent book, Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America published by Bristol University Press in 2025. Cordelia has also co-produced a range of reproductive justice projects including a graphic novel, investigative journalism projects, a documentary, and a community knowledge database.
Dr Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago is a researcher in the department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam funded by the Dutch Research Council. Julieta brings together reproductive justice, decolonial feminisms, and new kinship studies to understand the colonial conditions of the present that shape Indigenous peasant women’s reproductive lives and kinship formations. She is the author of the book Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America. The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru, published by Bristol University Press in 2025.
Dr Phoebe Martin (chair) is a feminist researcher who uses arts-based research methods to understand multiple forms of gender-based violence in Latin America. Her PhD, completed in 2022 at University College London, looked at how feminist activists in Peru use creative interventions around gender violence and reproductive justice. These actions, including art, performance, and audiovisual media create new spaces for social and cultural change in difficult political contexts. Since completing her PhD, she has worked at the University of York and King’s College London, where she researched the memorialisation of sexual violence, and the use of creative methods to research sexual harassment and resistance to gender-based violence. Her work appears in Signs and the Bulletin of Latin American Research. She is co-editor of Decolonising Andean Identities: Andinxs, Activism and Social change (UCL Press) and her monograph Visual and Embodied Politics: Feminist Activism and Art in Peru is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.