Keynote Speaker - Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan
Opening Address abstract
A hyper-masculine frame looms over the body politic. Virulent misogyny is in the bone marrow of nation-states that seek supremacy. Read from the body, state violence is always gendered. Gender based violence is always political. Truths that the body holds to be self-evident. Pullling from the narratives of fighters in Sri Lanka, Palestine, Kashmir and others, this lecture re-imagines what safety looks like for those under constant threat of state violence, re-politicizing gender-based violence through the frame of self-determination.
Chair's Recommended Readings
This is a non-exhaustive list of work by Dr. Gowrinathan that this year鈥檚 GSRC Chairs recommend to the OISE community. We also recommend checking out new issues released by .
- Gowrinathan, N. (2024). 鈥溾 In Adi Magazine, Issue 18: 鈥淥mens: Spirits and Spectres.鈥
- Gowrinathan, N. (2020). Beacon Press.
- Gowrinathan, N. (2018). 鈥溾 In LitHub.
About the speaker
Nimmi Gowrinathan
Nimmi Gowrinathan is an activist, writer, and scholar and founder of the , a global project to explore the political impact of gender-based violence. She is also the Founder and Publisher of , a literary journal to re-humanize policy, and the creator of the Female Fighter Series at Guernica Magazine. Her book, (Beacon Press 2021), examines the politics of the female fighter. Her political essays, which have appeared in Harper鈥檚 Magazine, Freeman鈥檚 Journal, McSweeney鈥檚 Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, and Foreign Affairs, among others have been described as 鈥渟earing in a search for answers.鈥
