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Carlo (MA, MPhil) researches the cultural, social, and historical processes of reproductive control in the United States, paying special attention to the overlap between reproductive health and gender affirming care in order to expand the potentialities for queer family making beyond “what we need” and towards “what we want”.
MORE ABOUT CARLO
Carlo received their Master’s degree from the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) with distinction at the University of Cambridge in 2019. They are currently a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a graduate fellow of the Yale Ethnography Hub, and run the WGSS Colloquium and Graduate Policy Fellows Program at Yale. Their work has been published in Social Science and Medicine and Population Studies.
DISSERTATION GRANT AWARDEE — SUMMER 2024
Transsexualizing Reproduction: Speculating Transgender Reproductive Politics, Desire, and Time in the United States
This multi-method study of the past, present, and future of transgender reproduction examines how trans people have come to bear the weight of a racialized American reproductive governance that relies on the seamless connection between dimorphic sex and gender. It offers a corrective to the common misapprehension that trans and reproduction are antithetical and shifts the dialogue about trans reproductive justice beyond just a question of health care towards one of possibility and desire.
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