me talking

Television:

– I joined MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff to talk about “Inconceivable,” what “structural infertility” looks like, and whether any of the policies that the Trump-Vance administration has proposed might help (spoiler: no). (09.26.2026)

– CBS News appearance discussing a New Yorker story on why we do not yet have safety and efficacy data for how the Covid-19 vaccine affects pregnant people and their developing fetuses. (02.12.21)

Radio + podcasts:

– On WNYC’S Brian Lehrer Show, I talked about “Inconceivable,” egg freezing as a response to heteropessimism, why South Korea has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, and why we need to go beyond the “population” discourse. Then I went back to talk about “workism” and how work culture and our crummy labor market are getting in the way of parenthood. (10.29.26 and 10.30.26)

– Writer and feminist advocate Zawn Villines invited me on “Liberating Motherhood” for an in-depth conversation about how economic pressures, the performance — and reality — of “busyness,” and the pressure to financialize and profit off every aspect of life make family life needlessly hard. (09.30.26)

– I joined “Matchmaker Maria” on her Ask a Matchmaker podcast to talk about the role that modern dating plays in bringing the birth rate to new lows each year. We talked about the hell that is dating apps, choice paralysis, social-media dating myths, and the 4B movement in South Korea. (09.22.26)

– The always fabulous Soraya Chemaly had me on her Substack channel for a conversation about “Inconceivable,” which touched on, among other things, gender antagonism in the US and South Korea, reproductive justice and why it matters more than ever, and the resurgence of naked eugenics. (09.17.26)

– I spoke to Anne Helen Petersen on her delightful Culture Study podcast. The title says it all: “Trying to Have Kids Amidst a Polycrisis.” This was a deep dive with Anne Helen and with many great listener questions, such as what the book has to say to people who don’t want children, how to create family beyond biological kin, and whether having a third child is “greedy.” (09.09.26)

– On WNYC’S Brian Lehrer Show, discussing how advances in IVF and embryo research challenge our understandings of the earliest days of human development. (04.16.25)

– Speaking on WHYY’s Studio 2 about the ethics of genetic screening and how far along we are on the path to “designer babies.” (04.15.25) with B.A. Parker, discussing the ethical quandaries of “freeze and share” egg freezing programs, in which women get free egg freezing services in exchange for giving away half of the eggs retrieved from their bodies. (12.01.21)

– On WNYC’S Brian Lehrer Show, explaining how the South Korean feminists behind the 4B movement have helped drive the country’s fertility rate into the ground. (03.19.24)

– On The Cut’s podcast with B.A. Parker, discussing the ethical quandaries of “freeze and share” egg freezing programs, in which women get free egg freezing services in exchange for giving away half of the eggs retrieved from their bodies. (12.01.21)

– On KPCC’s AirTalk with Larry Mantle, discussing a New York Times story on the true value of “women’s work,” and the radical concept of “comparable worth.” (11.19.20)

– Joining The New York Times podcast The Argument discussing declining birth rates, modern relationships, and other themes from the Sunday Review story “The End of Babies.” (12.05.19)

– Appearing with Radicals & Revolutionaries Lab podcast host Jillian Foster to discuss why people find it hard to create families, valuing care work and questioning what we count as “productive,” and why reproductive decisions need to be discussed as a matter of individual lives, not macro-level data. (07.19.2021)

Panel discussions:

– Discussing and interrogating the right to have a child with reproductive justice pioneer Loretta Ross and Dr. Karen Stote in a panel on “Reproductive Justice Beyond Abortion”, part of the Feminist Frontiers event hosted by Continuum Collective (02.03.21)

– Appearing on the Plough magazine’s event, “The Case for One More Child: Why Large Families Will Save Humanity,” with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, Leah Libresco Sargent, and Sarah C. Williams, I asked: Pronatalism for who? (01.21.21)