Astrida neimanis biography sample
Astrida Neimanis is a cultural theorist working at the intersection of feminism and environmental change..
Bodies of Water
“We are all bodies of water! What we do to water, we do to every body, including ourselves.”
Astrida Neimanis writes mostly about bodies, water and weather, in an intersectional feminist mode.
Her most recent monograph is Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. She is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and Key Researcher at the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, on Gadigal land, in Australia.
Astrida Neimanis at Hoover Dam
Richard Bright: Can we begin by you saying something about your background?
Astrida Neimanis: I am feminist writer and teacher whose feminism necessarily addresses sexuality, race, class, coloniality, ability, and species privilege, as always intersecting with gender.
Astrida Neimanis is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and a Key Researcher with the Sydney Environment.
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