On Justice #3
My Body, My Rights
With Adriana Lamačková, Ewa Majewska, Leonie Steinl, Tina Tomšič & Zorka Wollny
Moderation: Peggy Piesche
- Dialogue
English /
approx. 120 mins.
The right to make decisions about one's own body should be self-evident. And yet it is enshrined in law in very few countries around the world – not even in Germany. Feminists have been fighting for reproductive rights, i.e. the right to reproductive health, sexual self-determination, contraception and abortion, for more than a century, and now, with the rise of far-right movements, they are under even more pressure. In the third edition of “On Justice,” prominent activists from Eastern Europe and Germany as well as legal experts illustrate the connections between misogyny, authoritarianism and right-wing extremism and discuss the current legal battles for bodily and reproductive self-determination on a national and international level.
Peggy Piesche is a German cultural studies scholar. She works for the Federal Agency for Civic Education as a specialist for diversity, intersectionality, and decoloniality. She is considered one of the most well-known voices of Black women in Germany.
Leonie Steinl is the Chair of the Criminal Law Commission of the German Women Lawyers Association. Her research focuses on hate crime, offenses against sexual self-determination, criminal law and gender theory, as well as international criminal law and transitional justice.
Tina Tomšič speaks, as the network coordinator, for the Europe-wide campaign “My Voice, My Choice” – a movement of organizations demanding fundamental and reproductive rights.
Adriana Lamačková is the Associate Director for National Legal Strategies in Europe at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Ewa Majewska is a Polish philosopher, political activist and author. She was actively involved in antifascist, ecological and reproductive rights women’s movements in Poland. Her book “Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common” was published by Verso in 2021.
Zorka Wollny is an interdisciplinary artist from Poland, who will be presenting her artistic project “Let’s Make Noise, Sisters!” from the black protest movements in Poland in order to give context to the discussion.
Dates
Current
Credits
A discourse series by HAU Hebbel am Ufer in cooperation with ECCHR (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights). Funded within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
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