Dr. Leandra H. Hernández is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Utah Valley University. She is the co-author of Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Americas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights (2018) and the co-editor of This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzalduan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis (2019) and Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving amidst Uncertainty (2019). In this episode we discuss her feminist, collaborative work: violence at the US-Mexico border, including reproductive feminicidios, the role of health activism when discussing critical health communication methods, and the challenges and opportunities involved in teaching about these topics, which can be categorized as difficult and triggering.