Lorna Bracewell is Associate Professor of Humanities and Program Coordinator for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. Her scholarship focuses on feminist theory and the history of political thought and has been published in academic journals like Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and popular forums like Boston Review and The Washington Post. Her book, Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, offers a revisionist history of the feminist sexuality debates of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s foregrounding the influence of liberal concepts such as freedom of expression, the public/private divide, and the harm principle. Her current research centers on the life and work of nineteenth-century American suffragist, spiritualist, and socialist Victoria Woodhull.

Penelope Deutscher is Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor, Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University, where she is also Associate Director of the Critical Theory Cluster and affiliated in Comparative Literary Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her recent publications on reproductive politics include Foucault’s Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason (2017), and articles in diacritics,
the Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie/Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal; and Critical Times.

Demetra Kasimis is a political theorist at the University of Cambridge and the author of The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Zakiya Luna is Associate Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St Louis. Her research and teaching focus on social movements, reproductive justice, Black feminism, and intersectionality. She has also been involved in and consulted on various reproductive justice, health, and rights enterprises. She is working on her next book, Roe Was Never Enough.

Claire McKinney is Associate Professor of Government and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at William & Mary. She is the author of A Womb of One’s Own: Abortion, Citizenship, and the Politics of Reproduction.

Annie Menzel is a political theorist and former midwife. She seeks to understand how racism, capitalism, colonization, gender-based oppression, and linked systems of domination shape reproductive life, health, and care—especially around pregnancy, birth, abortion, and midwifery—as well as movements for reproductive justice and freedom. Her book, Fatal Denial: Racism and the Political Life of Black Infant Mortality, was published in 2024 in the University of California Press’s Reproductive Justice series. She is currently writing about racism, colonization, and radicalism in US midwifery, and the politics and praxes of invitation into liberation work.

Loretta Ross is an activist, professor, and public intellectual. In her five decades in the human rights movement, she’s deprogramed white supremacists, taught convicted rapists the principles of feminism, and, as National Co-Director, organized the second-largest march on Washington (in April 25, 2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., surpassed in size only by the 2017 Women’s March). A cofounder of the National Center for Human Rights Education and the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, her many accolades and honors include a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship and a 2024 induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Today, Ross is an associate professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is the founder of LoRossta Consulting, with which she runs “Calling In” training sessions online and for organizations around the country.

Rachel Schreiber is University Professor of Art, Media, and Cultural History and Director of the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute at The New School, New York, New York. A cultural historian and artist, her work focuses on the intersections of gender, sexuality, labor, and activism, often with a focus on visual and print culture. Her next book, Reproducing Justice: Visual Activism in the Era of Roe v. Wade, is forthcoming from NYU Press. She can be reached at rschreiber@newschool.edu.

Rickie Solinger is a historian and a curator. She is the author or editor of a dozen books, with a few more to come. Solinger has curated six traveling exhibitions associated with the themes of her books, hosted by over 150 college and university galleries. She is the founder and senior editor of the Reproductive Justice book series at the University of California Press.

Karen Weingarten is Director of Women and Gender Studies and Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. She is the author of Abortion in the American Imagination (Rutgers University Press, 2014), Pregnancy Test (Bloomsbury, 2023), and the edited collection Abortion Stories (Penguin Classics, 2024).

Alyson Cole is Professor of Political Science, Women’s & Gender Studies, and American Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include: The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror (Stanford 2007), Derangement and Liberalism: The Political Theory of Michael Paul Rogin (Routledge 2019), and How Capitalism Forms Our Lives (Routledge 2020).

Robyn Marasco is Henry A. & Louise Loeb Professor of Political & Social Science at The New School for Social Research. She is the author of The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory After Hegel, which reconstructs the emancipatory project of critical theory around the idea of negative dialectics. Her next book, Elements of a Political Theory of the Family, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.