Tuesday Talks presents Dr. Akanksha Misra 5/9/23

[Kristin Short]

Tuesday Talks presents Dr. Akanksha Misra, Assistant Professor in the
Department of Gender and Women's Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh, speaking on
"Blood, Medicine, and The Body as Archive: Feminist Ruminations on
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome" on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 4:30pm in the
Angell College Center's Cardinal Lounge. Below is an abstract of Dr.
Misra's presentation.

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a menstrual condition experienced by
as much as 15% of the menstruating population, but remains grossly under
addressed, especially in relation to wider social and economic factors such
as poverty, abuse, and racial and national differences. In this talk, Dr.
Misra discusses how awareness and treatments of this condition, as with
most conditions affecting women and/or menstruating people, have been
shaped by colonial, heteropatriarchal, and capitalist medical discourses of
gender and body normativity and how her own current project seeks to
decolonize these approaches to menstrual health. By questioning what
constitutes a ‘normal’ gendered body, and how we distinguish between our
bodies and our environment, she further invites us to think about what a
more inclusive, feminist approach to PCOS, menstrual health, and medicine
more generally might look like, on this campus and beyond. This will be a
highly interactive talk (don’t worry, no personal questions asked!) with
lots of time for Q&A. Trigger Warning: There will be references to
violence, childhood abuse, and trauma.
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