Jessica horn biography

          Jessica Horn (born ) is a feminist activist, writer, poet, and an advisor on women's rights with Ugandan and Malian background..

           

          Embodiment: I am shaped by a school of feminist activist philosophy that argues that all oppression, and hence all change is embodied.

          Our bodies are the landscapes through which narratives of constraint and defiance are voiced, are articulated, are felt, made real, made intolerable.

          A Pan-African feminist activist, researcher, poet, and writer, Horn has dedicated over two decades of her life centering women's autonomy.

        1. Jessica Horn was born on November 13, in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Repo!
        2. Jessica Horn (born ) is a feminist activist, writer, poet, and an advisor on women's rights with Ugandan and Malian background.
        3. I grew up on university campuses in Southern Africa and later the South Pacific, surrounded by post-colonial and anti-apartheid debate.
        4. Annika and Jessica Horn, daughters of renowned explorer Mike Horn, talk about how he shaped their mindset – and now they strive to empower women everywhere.

          5. Our bodies are canvases for aesthetic reflection, creation and damage, the necessary “raw material” of any creative production –and all activist work.

          All of my work in feminist organisations and philanthropic institutions has been framed by a concern to affirm women’s rights to health, bodily autonomy, freedom from violence and affirming our right to positive, pleasurable embodied lives.

          This includes expanding our understandings of collective care and emotional wellbeing and mental health . I am currently a Commissioner on The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health.

          Storytelling: I realised early on that words are power. I write and speak- as a researcher, an