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Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson grew up between Sweden, Colombia, and…
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In The Nerves and their Endings, Jessica Gaitán Johannesson draws our attention to intertwined nature of the personal, the planetary and the political, the intimate and the abstract. Rooted in the ways our bodies experience crisis and reaching far beyond metaphor, these elegant and urgent essays speak directly to the manifold crises in which we find ourselves, responding with a clear-sighted honesty, but offering a foundation upon which a genuine and generative hope can be raised.
Jessica will be discussing these essays and the experiences and events that they respond to, as well as the different forms and directions activism can take in a time of crisis and emergency.
For more information and to book your ticket, please visit the event website here.
The Nerves and Their Endings
The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress.
In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitán Johannesson explores how we respond to crises.
She draws parallels between an eating disorder and environmental neurosis, examines the perils of an activist movement built on non-parenthood, dissects the privilege of how we talk about hope, and more.
The synapses that spark between these essays connect essential narratives of response and responsibility, community and choice, belonging…
