Johanna Hedva is currently a Research Fellow with “at land’s edge,” under the mentorship of Fred Moten. Their essay Sick Woman Theory, published in 2016 in Mask. This talk will try to converge the feminist mystical tradition of Marguerite Porete, Simone Weil, etc., who proposed rejecting the body for the sake of love, with an intersectional-feminist, anti-white-supremacist, queer, and crip politics, which foregrounds the body as primary matter.Ī question for the audience: Are these two positions irreconcilable? Johanna Hedva is a Korean-American writer, artist, musician. Because society has eradicated such infrastructures, what are we going to do now?įrom here, Hedva (herself a spoonie) has wound up at mystical anarchism, which proposes a communal politics of love, where the “self” has been obliterated in favor of the Many. Johanna Hedva is a Korean-American writer, artist, musician, and astrologer, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives between LA and Berlin. SWT redefines the body with its vulnerability as the default, so therefore, we are constantly (not only sometimes) in need of care and support.
Sick Woman Theory insists that the definition of “wellness” is a capitalist one - to be well enough to go work - that needs to be rejected. Johanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory proposes that sick bodies are the 21st century’s sites of resistance: chronic, pathologized, and historically feminized illnesses ought to be read as modes of protest against the unlivable conditions of neoliberal, imperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist cis-hetero-patriarchy.
Go here for a version of this speech adapted for Mask Magazine. Event presented by the Women’s Center for Creative Work at Human Resources on October 7, 2015
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