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The Feminist Lecture Program welcomes back Alekszandra Rokvity to look at the creative wave of endometriosis advocacy and activism.
Endometriosis is dubbed “the invisible illness”. This nickname has double meaning – on the one hand, it refers to invisibility in the medical sense (endometriosis is difficult to recognize and diagnose); on the other hand, it refers to the social invisibility of endometriosis-patients. Realizing that poor care is a consequence of systemic gender-bias, patients have started creating a range of activist art across disciplines, calling attention to problems surrounding endometriosis-treatment. In this class, we will take a look at literature, visual art, and social media content created by patients with the goal of analyzing the creative wave of endometriosis advocacy and activism.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Alekszandra Rokvity is a PhD candidate at the University of Graz, Austria, writing her dissertation in the field of narrative medicine with a focus on endometriosis. She's currently working on a research project entitled "In/Visible Endometriosis: Menstruation, Menopause, and Narrative Medicine".
INSTAGRAM: @rokvity
https://linktr.ee/rokvity
UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM
Friday 26th January
Luisa Maria MacCormack
Hysterical Bodies: Gender, Medicine and Wandering Uteruses
Monday 29th January
Alekzsandra Rokvity
Endometriosis Activism: Making the Invisible Visible
Monday 5th February
Eleanor Medhurst
Dressing Dykes: A History of Lesbian Fashion
Monday 12th February
Parumveer Walia
Exploring the the Abject: Excreta, Feminism and Performativity in Art History
Monday 19th February
Holly Isard and Jo Harrison
Breastfeeding as Work: The Contradictions of Breastfeeding Under Capitalism
Monday 26th February
Sophie Paul
READING MAKES ME HORNY: Feminist Publishing and Masturbatory Reading
And much more to come…
RECORDING
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