QTReproART

States of Parenthood: Race and Nation in Contemporary Queer and Trans Reproduction

International Symposium

Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, April 25-26 2019

Convenors: Ulrika Dahl and Doris Leibetseder

with public keynotes by Camisha Russel and Del LaGraceVolcano.

Stay Tuned! Program coming up soon!

Our Special Issue in the Journal of International Women's Studies (20:1, Dec 2018) is out! https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/.

Here is the link to the introduction written by Gabriele Griffin and me: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol20/iss1/1/ and here is my article on 'Queer and Trans Reproduction in Poland, Spain and Sweden': https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol20/iss1/2/ .

Thank you all who contributed!

 

It has been a while and I spent most of the time preparing for fieldwork, obtaining ethical approvals, writing the first article for this project - a comparison of ART-laws for LGBT-people in different European countries -, editing a book on bioprecarity, preparing and organizing a workshop, etc. And an article was published in bioethics ”Queer Reproduction Revisited and Why Race, Class and Citizenship Still Matters: A Response to Cristina Richie” Bioethics 32/2, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12416.

Here is a short overview of what I did so far: 

Ethical Approvals:

• Ethical approvals by EC and the corresponding Swedish ethical approval by the Regional Ethics Committee in Uppsala (Regionala Etikprövningsnämnden Uppsala) Nr. 2017/434 have been obtained. The approvals are kept on file. Another ethical approval is required by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Tartu. Preparations and translation in Estonian for the application are completed.

Fieldwork:

• Preparations for the online-survey are finishing in Feb. 2018. The online-survey should go live towards the end of February 2018 in at least four countries: Austria, Spain, Sweden and UK, after the ethical approval has been obtained also in Estonia and Poland.

Project Communication

• Website, blog and facebook group about the project are online: http://www.gender.uu.se/forskning/qtreproart/.

Training

• Training on communication with actors outside academia: ”Critical Thinking for Public Discourse” was completed in Nov 2017, ”Media Training” Jan 2018.

MAIN RESULTS so far:

Publication

• ”Queer Reproduction Revisited and Why Race, Class and Citizenship Still Matters: A Response to Cristina Richie” Bioethics 32/2, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12416.
• Another article on “Trying to Make Queer and Trans Kin – The challenges of ART in Europe” will be finished within the next weeks and ready for submission to Science as Culture.
• Edited Book outline with Prof. Gabriele Griffin on Bioprecarity: Body and Intimate Labour + 2 completed chapters submitted for contract to Manchester University Press.
• Chapter on “Bioprecarity Through Categorical Framing” submitted for edited Bioprecarity: Body and Intimate Labour book.

Organization of international workshop:

• Preparations for international workshop on ”Queer and Transgender Reproduction” at Uppsala University, 3-4 May 2018: 12 speakers invited and agreed on talking, preliminary program, funding application for event (travels, food, accommodation for speakers) submitted to Riksbanken.

Presentations

Invitation

• ”Reproduction Rights, Ethics and Politics”, Seminar, 28 March 2018, University of Turku. Title of Talk: ”QT Reproduction: Queer and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”.

Conference acceptance

• Roundtable session on transgender reproduction at the “Remaking Reproduction: The Global Politics of Reproductive Technologies” Conference 27-29 June 2018 at the University of Cambridge: https://www.reprocnf.sociology.cam.ac.uk/.

Conference application

• Submitted to ”Close Relations: a Multi- and Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Family and Kinship Studies”, 24-26 Oct 2018, Uppsala University.

In this blog I will share regular postings of the project’s activities, my thoughts whilst working on it, and information about other relevant events in the field of queer and transgender (LGBTIQ) reproduction with Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART).

In addition to the project’s website the blog will allow me to give an update more often and in an informal way, kind of “behind the scenes” on my work and insights. This will make it easier for a more general audience to understand my project. Most important a possibility for a two-way communication is created with this blog, to engage you better with the topic of my project and I will take your feedback in the comments into consideration.

I am looking forward to building the blog that will hopefully also grow with your comments as I embark on this new journey and project! Thanks for stopping by! And please share!