Pirate Queens and Hybrid Beings: Insurgent Bodies in Chilean and Irish Reproductive Justice Campaigns

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The Global Language-Based Area Studies research theme is delighted to host this webinar with guest speaker, Dr Céire Broderick (University College Cork).

Abstract
Transnational solidarity and comprehensive critiques of colonial, patriarchal systems united the cultural responses created during the campaigns for reproductive justice in Ireland and Chile in 2018. In this talk, an example from each context will be considered, namely the performance piece, ‘Abortistas’ by the Yeguada Latinoamericana in Chile and the poem ‘Granuaile’ by Róisín Kelly in Ireland. Taking a decolonial feminist approach, the interstices of artform and geopolitically distinct territories will be explored, focusing on their discursive construction of insurgent bodies to critique the lived experiences of women and pregnant people under the restrictive reproductive laws in both countries.  

Biography
Céire Broderick is a lecturer in Latin American Studies in University College Cork. Her recent monograph, Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Identities in Chile: Revisiting Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer (2021), explores traditional and contemporary concerns surrounding genders and ethnicities in Chile through a textual analysis of historical novels depicting seventeenth-century figure, Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer. Her current work takes a comparative approach to the creative responses in the campaigns for reproductive justice in Argentina, Chile, and Ireland in 2018. It is interdisciplinary in nature and highlights the intersection between art activism and social issues facing the countries studied. Through this project, she combines theories produced in the Global North and South, particularly decolonial feminisms, to investigate how cultural practitioners contribute to the struggles against socio-historical and geopolitical challenges.

Event format & recording
The event will take place online as a Zoom webinar and will be recorded for publication after the event.

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