Today’s conversation is with Mali Collins, who teaches in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University. Along with numerous scholarly and public pieces, she is the author of Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination (2024) and is a practicing birth, postpartum, and pregnancy termination doula, and a trained Perinatal and Infant Loss advocate with The Womb Room in Baltimore, MD. In this conversation, we discuss the intersection of race, gender, and questions of reproduction and its transformative effect for the study of Black life.