Name: Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction and the State: Fighting Back Against the So-Called Law
Start: 2025-07-04T17:00:00-0500
End: 2025-07-04T18:30:00-0500

Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

TBA

As the state intensifies its assault on gender, sexuality, and reproduction—criminalizing abortion, trans care, and pregnancy outcomes, dismantling government functions to fight "gender ideology," and defining "real women" under the guise of protection—how do we endure and resist? Under the shadow of a second Trump administration, the erosion of rights is not a glitch but a feature of a broader regime of privatization and control. Journalist Melissa Gira Grant, and authors Sophie Lewis and Beatrice Adler-Bolton discuss how today's attacks are part of a longer history of state repression, and how we can build resistance in an era of hyper-austerity and rising fascism.

Speakers

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer. Her books, Enemy Feminisms, Full Surrogacy Now, and Abolish the Family, have been translated into nine languages. Sophie grew up in France, half-British, half-German, but now lives in Philadelphia and teaches online courses on utopian theory at the Brooklyn... Read More →

Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a disabled and chronically ill agitator and independent researcher. She is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.

Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of the books Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso, 2014) and the forthcoming A Woman Is Against the Law: Sex, Race, and the Limits of Justice in America (Little, Brown, 2026).

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