{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/633aa4bff131c60012c78ea6/689b5ceb66f126ae3fdf1568?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Godesosa: Intersexuality, Character Creation & Queer Inhumanism","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/633aa4bff131c60012c78ea6/1755007323352-13fa4da0-5a84-4634-8a63-bb27a1a3bfaf.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Artist Esosa Odia, known as <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/godesosa/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Godesosa</a> on Instagram, creates ‘characters’ through various digital software that read as posthuman figurations as they merge the organic with the natural to create notions of bodies from the future or another world. Godesosa uses their art as a way to work through their experience of being intersex, and to reimagine their body in alternative nonhuman ways. They use 3D rendering to create realistic bodily mutations that challenge normative ideas of the ‘the human’ and disintegrate binaries between human/nonhuman, organic/technological, male/female.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><p>Esosa’s Instagram account: <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/godesosa/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@godesosa</a></p><p>Myra Hird’s article<a href=\"https://scienceandsexuality.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/hird-naturally-queer.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> ‘Naturally Queer’&nbsp;</a></p><p>The other text by Myra Hird is Chapter 10 ‘Animal Trans’ in the book ‘Queering the Non/Human’, <a href=\"https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-02_621f861792f2e_noreen-giffney-queering-the-nonhuman.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">which you can find here</a>.</p><p>Work by Helen Hester who says ‘if nature is unjust change nature’ - her text on <a href=\"https://nikomas.memoryoftheworld.org/Helen%20Hester/Xenofeminism%20(450)/Xenofeminism%20-%20Helen%20Hester.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Xenofeminism can be found here</a>.</p><p>Information on a book on Queer Inhumanisms can be found <a href=\"https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Queer_Inhumanisms/8yffrQEACAAJ?hl=en&amp;kptab=overview\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Bodies in the Post Social Media:</strong></p><p>Instagram:<a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bodiesinthepost/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> @bodiesinthepost</a></p><p>Tiktok:<a href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bodiesinthepostpodcast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> @bodiesinthepostpodcast</a></p><p>YouTube:<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@BodiesInThePostPodcast/featured\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> @BodiesInThePostPodcast</a></p>","author_name":"Lydia Kaye"}