The Red Sea 1AC

Menstruation ties us to the ocean, makes us one with the ocean. Like the tides,
our bodies flow, following the moon. The ocean is inexorable from the tides of
our bodies, and we should embrace this radical connection with nature, the
moon, and the flow of the sea.
Jessica Renae 14 (staff writer), Period Positivity: Embracing Your Inner Moon, Feminist
Wednesday. 5/6/14. http://feministwednesday.com/innermoon/
As Ive become more exposed to feminism in the last six monthshaving more
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, Ive finally embraced it as a beautiful part of being a woman.

Our exploration of the ocean takes the form of an exploration of womens

bodies. We are told to hide and be ashamed of our bodies and our
menstruation, but this denies our connection to the moon, the ocean, and all of
nature. Menstruating is the deepest connection that humans can have to the
ocean and the most genuine way of exploring the topic. My partner and I
performatively menstruate an ocean of blood in order to explore the beauty of
our connection to the sea.
-Periods are shamed in society, part of the objectification of women
-We ought to reclaim menstruation as a political act of defiance
-Menstruation connects us to the cycle of life, nature, and the ocean
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[s], tell your family. Lets create community around this experience.

We have all been born from the womb of the ocean and radical menstruation
allows us to deepen this connection, reforming broken ties with nature and the
world. We must reaffirm the life-giving power of our own wombs and the
worlds womb from which all life emerges in order to recognize the radical
interconnectedness of all life.
Abigail Sorensen 13, We Are All Stardust: Reflections of an Eco-Feminist. Feminspire.
8/20/13. http://feminspire.com/we-are-all-stardust-reflections-of-an-eco-feminist/
One thing I love about feminism is that it emphasizes the interconnectivity of individuals through

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and surrender ourselves to the ocean. We are all stardust, indeed.

The female body is the sea, and our menstrual flows are the tides. Only the act of
menstruation allows us not only to explore and study the ocean, but to become bodies of
water. As fluid bodies, we are no longer bound by the categories that divide us, learning to
live in the watery in-between, creating a new ethic of hydrofeminism. This is the only way to
address the problems of sexual oppression, animal rights, environmental degradation, and all
forms of colonialist subjugation.
Astrida Neimanis 12 Hydrofeminism:Or, On Becoming a Body of Water. in Undutiful
Daughters: Mobilizing Future Concepts, Bodies and Subjectivitiesin Feminist Thought and
Practice , eds. Henriette Gunkel, ChrysanthiNigianni and Fanny Sderbck.
We are all bodies of water. To think embodiment as watery belies the understanding
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At least this is what becoming a body of water has taught me.

Describing female bodies and sexuality in terms of ocean metaphors is a key tool to break
down the patriarchal subordination of female sexuality and liberate discussions of womens
bodies from the male domain
Margaret Ravenel Richardson 11, Traversing the Feminine: The Reclamation of Womens
Immense Bodily Territories in Jeanette Wintersons Written on the Body and The Passion.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (peer reviewed), vol. 307. 2011.
In 1976 Hlne Cixous asserted that about everything is yet to be written by
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womens jouissance defies the culture of shame and subordination that surrounds female
sexuality.

Subversion of patriarchal norms and modes of thought ought to be the goal of this debate.
Gender politics permeate and shape all politics and international relations. The inherent
patriarchal nature of traditional political institutions is the root cause and controls the
direction of all major impacts.
Nhanenge 2007
(Jytte, Masters @ U South Africa, Accepted Thesis Paper for Development Studies, ECOFEMINSM:
TOWARDS INTEGRATING THE CONCERNS OF WOMEN, POOR PEOPLE AND NATURE INTO DEVELOPMENT,
uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/10500/570/1/dissertation.pdf)
The androcentric

exploitative

premises also have political consequences. They protect the ideological basis of

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The ultimate result of unchecked patriarchy will be ecological catastrophe and nuclear
holocaust.