Meehan Crist’s ‘Is It OK to Have a Child?’, the second of last year's LRB Winter Lectures at the British Museum, is being expanded into a book.
Given what we know about the future of the planet, Meehan Crist asks: is having children a matter of consumer choice, of political conviction, or something an authority will eventually decide for us?
In the first episode of a four-part series exploring the intersection of climate chaos and reproductive justice, Meehan Crist talks to activist and feminist scholar Loretta J. Ross.
In the second episode of a four-part series on climate chaos and reproductive justice, Meehan Crist speaks to evolutionary biologist and feminist science scholar Banu Subramaniam.
Alison Bashford discusses the history of efforts to control population size, how population is thought about in the Anthropocene, and how suspending critique of the past can give valuable insight into...
Jade Sasser discusses how advocates for population control harness the language of social justice, her students’ highly personal responses to climate change, and the ways scholarship on climate anxiety...
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