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Biography.

Astrida Neimanis is a writer, teacher, and collaborator.

In this podcast, Astrida Neimanis discusses her latest book, Bodies of Water, and helps us make sense out of our contradictory relationship with water.

The fluid body is not specific to woman, but watery embodiment is still a feminist question; thinking as a watery body has the potential to bathe new feminist.

Astrida Neimanis is a writer, teacher, and collaborator..

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.

Astrida Neimanis's Bodies of Water is a radical contribution within the burgeoning field of new materialist literature through imagining an aquatic dissolution.

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.

I am a parent whose life is shaped by my many other kin connections, too. I am a white settler who grew up on Turtle Island (currently known as Canada). Since 2015 I have worked as