Risk, Resilience and Resistance in Narratives of Women’s Drug Use: A Narcofeminist Approach
The Leverhulme Programme for Interdisciplinary Resilience Studies are pleased to share an upcoming talk that all University of Southampton doctoral researchers (PGRs) and staff are welcome to attend.
Join us on Friday 21 March, 12pm – 1pm in the Digital Humanities Hub (Room 2155, Building 65, Avenue Campus).
Carrie Lou Hamilton is a writer, editor, researcher and translator based in London, with a background in Spanish and Latin American history and feminist theory.
During this talk, Carrie explores the concepts of risk and resilience in literature on illicit drugs which cohere around the assumption that women experience gender-specific forms of risk and resilience in relation to drugs. The emerging narcofeminist movement offers a more capacious understanding of women’s drug use. Narcofeminists reject the representation of women who take drugs as victims and their risk-taking as a form of deviance. They highlight the structural inequalities that shape women’s relationship to drugs, claiming bodily autonomy and pleasure as crucial aspects of drug use. Drawing on narcofeminist theory and critical drug studies, this session offers an activist-scholar’s intervention.