Michelle Rivkin-Fish is Associate Professor of Anthropology and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at UNC, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Women’s Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention (Indiana University Press, 2005), which was awarded the Society for Medical Anthropology’s Eileen Basker Award for Outstanding Work in Gender and Health and the Association of Women in Slavic Studies’ Heldt Award for Best Book in Gender Studies. She has published articles on Russian demographic politics, sex education, and global LGBTQ activism pertaining to Russia, and is currently writing a history of efforts to replace abortion with routine contraception from the 1960s to the present in Russia.