I especially enjoy doing things that pollute the water and chew up more than my share of resources. Thirdly, I feel guilty because I am constantly doing really environmentally damaging things. And yet, I can imagine the ethics of this book by Neimanis much better than I can enact them. Also, I’m a female, feminine-ish, a mother and a feminist historical separations of brain and body have never done my kind any good. I know my brain is of my body and my guts fire with emotion. (Ironically, I think ‘staying with the trouble’ – Haraway’s term – in this instance means worrying for at least a moment on guilt.) Secondly, I’m guilty because I’m not supposed to perpetuate a distinction between the psychic and the material. Two of my intellectual heroes shun guilt Donna Haraway eschews the quest for purity because empirical senses of right and wrong thwart rigorous politically oriented scholarship, and Eve Sedgwick finds shame a less moralising and more critically generative affect. I feel guilty, in the first instance, because I’m not supposed to feel guilty. I cannot live the majesty of this watery-world as I would dearly like to. Or, more particularly, my bad.Īfter reading Bodies of Water I find myself stalled somewhere between psychic and the material. So instead of merely singing the praises of this book, I want to focus on the bad. But I would say this Neimanis is my colleague and collaborator. In this regard, Bodies of Water is a convincing, lyrical and philosophically complex description of the world. And universalist scientific understandings of water as ‘H20’ are reined into their Anthropocene context, to allow for thinking in greater detail about waters’ plurality. Trans-epochal imaginings of planetary flows are reworked in a queer rendition of the ‘aquatic ape’ theory of evolution. Then, intergenerational narratives are liquefied into an anti-essentialist feminist rethinking of amniotic fluid and breast milk. The book considers such complexity in the following ways: first, we are prompted to consider the site-specificity of waters as producing an aquatic ‘politics of location’. At the same time as thinking about difference, however, Bodies of Water also challenges us to think relationally. ![]() How is the water in which I wade both different from and the same as yours? How is the water in which I was gestated similarly multivalenced? Infusing the watery world with difference offers a new way into thinking our present ecological and political situation. The book’s point of departure is that waters connect us all as such, the more difficult and vexing problem tackled therein is to think rigorously and critically about the particularities of those relations. Its author, Astrida Neimanis, challenges us to reimagine how individual human bodies - constituted of approximately 70 per cent water - are thoroughly implicated in the planetary hydrocommons. If it is the job of a phenomenologist to describe conscious experience, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology does so in a way that collapses the distinction between one’s psychic life and one’s material situation. As we shimmied into the square concrete opening, we learned that a drain is not simply a drain.
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![]() Louis, Angelou once again found herself under the spell of her beautiful, well-educated, and charismatic mother. White people constantly disrespected Momma, and Uncle Willie often had to hide in his own home from the KKK.įour years after Angelou and her brother were sent to Stamps, their father returned for them and took them to live with their mother and her family in St. But life was far from perfect for this newly formed family unit. ![]() Momma ran a general store, and their Uncle Willie drilled into the children the importance of a good education. Throughout her long life, Angelou was a vocal advocate for progress and creating equal opportunities for Black people in America.Īngelou recalled these early years living with her paternal grandmother Annie Henderson (Momma) and their Uncle Willie in her first memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou was also a celebrated Civil Rights Activist, working with prominent leaders including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Angelou’s work gave voice to the struggles of not just herself but others - especially other Black women - who have gone through similar experiences but had never heard their stories told with such honesty before. To this day, this book is regarded as a stunning and unparalleled work that completely changed the way readers looked at autobiography and memoir. She was a poet, a memoirist, an activist, a playwright, a dancer, a singer, an actress, a mother, and so much more.Īngelou is probably best known for her series of autobiographies that chronicle the story of her life, starting with the critically acclaimed classic I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which was first released in 1969. ![]() Maya Angelou was an inspirational and unforgettable public figure who wore many hats in her storied lifetime. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over at #BookSquadGoals (She can be reached at All posts by Emily Martin Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. ![]() Resolution on making AI a more democratic organisationĭECIDES that the ICM preparatory Committee improves the process of the preparation of the ICM by ensuring the dispatch of all relevant ICM documents in relevant language to all sections and structures at least three months previous to the ICM and verifies the receipt of all documents.įurther DECIDES that the ICM preparatory committee makes sure that all longer documents are complemented by a eloquent executive summary.Īmnesty International is a unique activist organisation due to sections and structures with tremendous different conditions. ![]() AI should in consultation with all the sections and structures in the movement complement the current draft policy to provide sufficient protection of all women's right to health, to physical and mental integrity. ![]() We believe that a coherent Human Rights approach must recognise a woman's right to freely decide whether to continue or terminate her pregnancy, free from coercion, discrimination and violence. As the Decision 3 of ICM 2005 states: "the need for abortion in a large number of cases is a consequence of a lack of empowerment of women as well as a lack of access to education and health services like contraception". In case of an unwanted pregnancy, when there is no proof of sexual abuse and when the life of the pregnant woman is not in danger, denying her the right to abortion puts woman's fundamental rights at risk. Some of the limitation of the present policy are that it can not take into account the difficulties to have the sexual abuse proved timely or even legally recognized, as often in the case of domestic violence. Incest, and pregnancy which endangers the life of the woman.Īlthough the policy is a very essential move in the right direction to ensure women’s sexual and reproductive rights, we believe there is a need for a more inclusive approach. The Draft Policy Statement on Selected Aspects of Abortion (POL 39/007/2006) is an important step towards a comprehensive position on women's sexual and reproductive rights.Īccording to such a policy AI would call on States to take all necessary measures to ensure that safe and legal abortion services are available, accessible, acceptable and of good quality for women who require them in cases of unwanted pregnancy as a result of rape, sexual assault or Resolution on a woman's right to decide whether to continue or terminate her pregnancyĭECIDES that the woman's right to physical and mental integrity includes her right to terminate her pregnancy, and that abortion should therefore be legal, safe and accessible to all women free from coercion, discrimination and violence.ĭECIDES to instruct the IEC to develop a policy consistent with such an approach in consultation with all the sections and structuresįurther DECIDES that IEC in such a policy underscores the states obligation to provide legal, safe and accessible health services to all women. 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