Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Webinar “Abortion Pills and the Pharmaceutical Geographies of Autonomous Health” Dr. Sydney Calkin
About the event
The Program in Women’s, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies
2025 Inaugural Public
Research Seminar
Friday, March 21, Noon (Zoom)
“Abortion Pills and the Pharmaceutical Geographies of Autonomous Health”
Dr. Sydney Calkin
School of Geography Queen Mary University of London
Dr. Calkin is the author of Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom Across Borders (U California, 2023) and co-editor of After Repeal: Re-thinking Abortion Politics (Zed, 2020). She is the primary investigator of “Pharmaceutical Geographies of Self-managed Sexual Health” (2024-2029, funded by UK Research and Innovation). This is an interdisciplinary project with a team of social and chemical scientists to study informally acquired pharmaceuticals and the therapeutic communities that use them for abortion, HIV prevention, and transgender health.
