Discussing Anomalisa (2015), Lucy Benjamin shows that the vocal, and hence aural, quality of sex permits a form of bodily ownership, rejecting the consuming and sexualizing masculine gaze.
Lucy Benjamin
Lucy Benjamin is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London. In her dissertation she explores the question of ‘earth’ and ‘world’ as taken up in 20th century German philosophy in order to rethink questions around political action and the right to live in view of anthropogenic climate change. Central to her dissertation is the question of what it means to ‘ethical dwell’ upon an earth of human construction and within worlds of disjunctive political meaning. She has previously completed an MPhil at the University of Amsterdam where she wrote on the political implications of romantic love.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey