Leigh Senderowicz

📣 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!

Had the *best* time running the Critical #Demography workshop last week. So many ideas and so much energy to push our field forward. Thank you @bspsuk.bsky.social for the amazing sponsorship. Stay tuned for the next steps 😊

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!

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!

📔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!!

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...?

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...

Here's the link to listen: www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

In “Contraceptive Use & Discontinuation,” C. Busse, K. Tumlinson & @lsenderowicz.bsky.social describe how “adolescent women have distinct contraceptive dynamics, method mix & reasons for discontinuation." @uncpopcenter.bsky.social @uncpublichealth.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

I will be in conversation with two very brilliant minds about the ways that feminist economics (and positivist research frameworks, more generally) can engage with the Reproductive Justice framework. Please join us!!

Wendy Sigle, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & I will be in conversation with Mary Borrowman (CGD) about the Si, and why we think this is a critical moment for engaging with these questions of FE & RJ. Date: 1st April 2025, 1500-1615 (UK) Spanish interpretation available. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Special Issue on "Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics" is IN PRESS! I learnt so much (as a non-economist, as a scholar) from our incredible contributors & from my enormously talented co-guest editors @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Prof Sigle (LSE). 🧵1/

The idea seems to be that if you just keep pointing out the hypocrisy, eventually it’ll do something?

We have a new special issue focusing on global reproductive justice We want to use this issue to challenge feminist economists & other scholars to engage seriously with the possibilities and rigors of the RJ framework I wish the topic weren’t quite so timely… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scientists need to realize this list will grow. It used to be abortion and climate change. Staying quiet won’t keep your area off lists like this.

Telling MAGA there are better ways to raise birthrates is exactly what no one should do www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Every once in while I'm reminded that this dystopian Disney short on population control from 1968 exists www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Dk...

If you’ve been looking for a non-shitty, non-misogynist take on pronatalism from actual experts, look no further! (Taking part in this webinar is one of my favorite things that I’ve done all year)

Pronatalism is a classic population panic, based on regressive ideas and bad demography. In this webinar, three demographers (@lesja.bsky.social @lsenderowicz.bsky.social and me) break it down. Passcode: 60N#t1y

Is anyone writing about the defunding of USAID/UNFPA other global SRH orgs in a way that challenges global health white savior myths? Devt orgs=good or devt orgs=bad isn’t cutting it and I’d love something to assign to my students

I've been as critical of the DHS as anybody, but the loss of these data and the cruelty with which these actions are taken makes my blood run cold

My new substack on the sex and gender Executive Order is out. #science #transrights #lgbtqstem #feministsky sterlinga.substack.com/p/biological...