Irmgard Emmelhainz Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures

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Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world in which a womans voice exists in bodies called on to occupy important positions in corporations, government, and cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories, and to join the armybut whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the double burden imposed on them to perform both productive and reproductive laborEmmelhainz asks: What is the task of thought and form in contemporary feminist-situated knowledge? Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is a collection of essays rethinking feminist issues in the current context of the production of redundant populations, the omnipresence of the technosphere and environmental devastation, toxic relationships, toxic nationalisms, and more. These reflections and dialogues are an urgent attempt to resist the present in the company of the voices of women like bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alade Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Pea, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutierrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Gruner. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures continues the discussion on how to undo misogyny and dismantle heteropatriarchys sublimating and denigrating tricks against women, which are intrinsically linked to colonialism and violence against the Earth.