SUBTEXTS PRESENTS: Readings: Ruth Fletcher, Katherine Angel, and Ella Berny
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: BLOC Cinema, Arts One Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Readings from IHSS Fellow Dr Katherine Angel (School of the Arts, QMUL), Professor Ruth Fletcher (School of Law, QMUL), and Ella Berny (PhD student, School of Geography, QMUL)
About the Readers
Katherine Angel is an author and a Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at QMUL. Katherine’s literary non-fiction delves into themes of sexuality, feminism, gender, psychoanalysis and psychiatry. Her notable works, which have been translated into thirteen languages, include Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent (2021), Daddy Issues (2019) and Unmastered: A Book On Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (2012). Her latest book project returns to her earlier research in the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry and will be published by Verso (UK) and Liveright/Norton (US).
Ruth Fletcher is a Professor of Law at QMUL. Her research addresses the relationship between law, health and society through the lens of reproduction. She credits the movement for abortion rights in Ireland with her early legal learning on making the impossible possible. Ruth brings those methods of reproducing law otherwise to all her work, including as a former lead editor of the journal Feminist Legal Studies, as a current union branch organiser on legal education and strategy, and as chair of trustees for the Abortion Support Network. Her most recent research applies a feminist social reproduction perspective to critique the intersection of law and reproductive temporality. She will talk to us about the possibilities of reclaiming the time taken from pregnant people by time-limited abortion laws, and the necessity of challenging the stigmatisation of ‘later’ abortion.
Ella Berny is a PhD student at QMUL researching abortion storytelling in the UK. She will be reading from a creative chapter that explores the courtroom as a site of speakability, based on public documents relating to six recent prosecutions for 'illegal' abortion in England. CW: pregnancy loss, stillbirth.
About the Event
The event is free but please register on Eventbrite.
The Arts One Building is marked 37 on the Mile End campus map. For more travel information, visit the Mile End campus web page.
The Organisers
SUBTEXTS is a monthly creative writing and research sharing event and community, based at the Queen Mary University of London in the School the Arts, English and Drama Department.