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Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel
Friday, November 20, 2026
12:00–1:30 p.m.
Location: FNB 2240
Drawing on her recently published book, Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel (University of California Press, 2026), Rexer examines how Israeli settler-colonial policies shape Palestinian women's reproductive lives. Grounded in a Black feminist reproductive justice framework and more than two years of ethnographic research, the book explores hospitals and fertility clinics as sites through which reproductive care becomes entangled with state surveillance and demographic control. Her work invites us to consider how everyday encounters within medical institutions illuminate the relationship between reproductive injustice and settler colonialism.
