In Conversation: Feminist Joys, Magic Pills, and Decolonial Praxis in Latin America.
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era when reactionary politics thrive on resentment? How do feminist movements across Latin America navigate these tensions while fighting for reproductive justice? Can there be magic in feminist organising and resistance?
Join us (in person and online), as we bring together three leading scholars whose new books explore the politics, practices, and affective dimensions of reproduction in Latin America. From the creative, joyful strategies that animate abortion struggles in Argentina, to the clandestine journeys of misoprostol in the region, to the legacies of forced sterilisation in Peru and the limits of rights-based frameworks—these works invite us to think beyond legal victories and into the messy, magical, inventive, and deeply political terrain of feminist and decolonial praxis.
After a discussion of these books, please stay for some nibbles and chats!
Speakers:
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.
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