Conference presentations

Gendered care work, societal ableism and the embodiment of neglect: towards a conceptualisation of interembodied debility for disabled children and their caregivers in Colombia

Postgraduates in Latin American Studies Conference, University of Bristol, 8th-9th April 2025

Panel convenor Colonial past, violent present: The role of disability social movements in creating alternative futures in Latin America

Presentation Back to the present, organising for the future: disabled maternal lived time and an ‘ethics of deferral’

Society for Latin American Studies Conference, University of Bristol, 10th-11th April 2025

Micro-activist affordances in the context of gendered familial care for children with disabilities: insights from Brazil and Colombia

Disability Studies Conference, University of Leeds, 3rd - 5th September 2024

(Co-authored with Lauren Avery, University of York)

Panel discussant Reproductive Justice and Disability 

Reproductive Justice NOW! University College London, 8th - 9th May 2024

Roundtable Colombia at a crossroads: environmental, disability and reproductive justice - thinking with Sunaura Taylor 

Postgraduates in Latin American Studies,  University of Amsterdam, 1st - 4th July 2024 

(Co-convened with Lucía Guerrero, University of Exeter)

'Unmothering’ from the margins: childhood disability, structural violence, and the politicisation of motherhood

Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1st - 4th July 2024 

From Abstraction to Action: Establishing a Collaborative Reflexivity Praxis for Transformative Global Health Research 

Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Inequities: Critical Approaches to Global Health, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, 14th June 2023

(Co-authored with Hattie Lowe, Faith Miller, Callie Daniels-Howell and Alma Ionescu, UCL)

Care as Resistance: Atypical Activist Parents in the Struggle for Disability Justice 

Reproductive Justice in a Post-COVID World: Transnational Protest and Resistance, University of Cambridge, 18th - 19th April 2023 

(Co-authored with Lauren Avery, University of York) 

Centring agency in the struggle for care: examining the strategies used by mothers to negotiate health care access on behalf of children with disabilities in Barranquilla, Colombia 

ASA2023: An unwell world? Anthropology in a speculative mode, SOAS, University of London, 11th - 14th April 2023

“Todo en manos de dios”: Reflecting on the role of religion and faith in the struggle for rights and services for children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Barranquilla, Colombia 

Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, 29th - 31st March 2023 

Resisting Individualisation: Exploring Parental Narratives of Congenital Zika Syndrome from a Decolonial Perspective 

CLACSO 2022, Universidad Nacional de México, 7th - 10th June 2022