Tournament: New York City Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Doron Darnov
Trigger warning: violence against womxn but nothing graphic
Let Greeks be Greeks, and womxn what they are.
Men have precedency, and still excell.
It is but vain unjustly to wage warre,
Men can do best, and womxn know it well
Preheminence in all and each is yours;
Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours.
The Prologue Anne Bradstreet
Ourfali, 2017
Ourfali, Basma. A Feminist Reading of Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson. Syrian Arab Republic University of Aleppo Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of English, 2017, http://nsr.sy/df509/pdf/5625.pdf.
However her first volume The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America was first published in London by her brother-in-law John Woodbridge in 1650. All they had to do was devote their lives from earliest girlhood to finding a husband and bearing children. (Friedan 32)
Engaging in poetics within the debate space ruptures the standard of how we are supposed to debate--- by relating points of trauma in poems we invoke feelings that create an affect within the listener
Steele 2kWe Heal from Memory: Sexton, Corde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness
By C. Steele,DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-12313-8Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Steele, Cassie Premo, 1967-We heal from memory :Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldua, and the poetry of witness /Cassie Premo Steele.p.cm.Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
What will become clear in the course of this study is that trauma cannot be adequately dealt with on an analytical level-through psychoanalysis, social science, or even the field of history. This is what happens in the witnessing process, and this is what happens in poetry, and this is why the poetry of witness is a "solution" in a way that social sci- ence is not.
PART 1: THE SYSTEM
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS A FORM OF KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION THAT IS INHERENTLY GROUNDED ON AN UNEQUAL, MASCULINE PLAYING FIELD.
Halbert, 2006
Halbert, Deborah. "Feminist Interpretations of Intellectual Property." American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law. 14, no. 3 (2006): 431-460.
A. Early Feminist Theory and the Social Construction of Knowledge An important early contribution to understanding how feminists might interpret intellectual property can be found in the work of Shulamith Firestone. A womxn’s way of knowing is an alternative to a status quo premised upon an exclusively masculine tradition.37 Articulating a womxn’s standpoint is a political activity that provides us with a different understanding of creative work and how it should be protected by law.
PART 2: SCENARIOS
THIS CULTRURE OF SUPPRESSION EXPRESSES ITSELF AS PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMXN’S RIGHTS.
Scenario 1: Millions of unsafe abortions take place because TRIPS denies access to contraceptives.
Mike 1: Mike, Jennifer H. School of Law, American University of Nigeria, Yola, Nigeria, Nigeria “Access to essential medicines to guarantee womxn's rights to health: The pharmaceutical patents connection” Wiley Online Library, 2020.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jwip.12161 JP
Particularly, contraceptives are essential medicines as they are necessary to curtail early and unwanted childbearing, and prevent unplanned pregnancies.Invariably, the inability to access better and high quality therapeutic treatments may mean that the majority of womxn, particularly in developing countries, may be restricted to a limited choice of contraceptives.
IPP lets those who ideologically oppose reproductive technologies prevent womxn from accessing them.
Allen 1: Allen, Scott A. Indiana University Maurer School of Law “Patents Fettering Reproductive Rights” Indiana Law Journal, 2012. https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3004andcontext=ilj JP.
Because these patentable reproductive inventions have enabled reproductive choice and are often catalysts for reproductive rights, opposition to reproductive autonomy has translated into opposition to specific technologies. In other words, the same government that affords the rights to reproductive choices as found in the Constitution could be forced to grant limitations on the access to a private patentee’s reproductive technologies or inventions—regardless of societal value.
Scenario 2: IPP continues to prohibit womxn from accessing testing for breast cancer, as well as scientists from researching further treatments to improve womxn’s health.
Mike 2: Mike, Jennifer H. School of Law, American University of Nigeria, Yola, Nigeria, Nigeria “Access to essential medicines to guarantee womxn's rights to health: The pharmaceutical patents connection” Wiley Online Library, 2020. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jwip.12161 JP
The patenting of the human gene in the U.S. case of Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics Inc illustrates this point. it leads to poorer health outcomes and also puts an enormous constraint on those with an already cash-strapped budget.
Patents only exasperate the already existing gender bias and inequality within the medical industry by preventing womxn from accessing life-saving medicine.
Mike 3: Mike, Jennifer H. School of Law, American University of Nigeria, Yola, Nigeria, Nigeria “Access to essential medicines to guarantee womxn's rights to health: The pharmaceutical patents connection” Wiley Online Library, 2020. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jwip.12161 JP
Deeply ingrained gender bias and stereotypes also lead to behaviours that favour men over womxn, especially in accessing healthcare. Gender-related limitations through cultural and traditional practices are also factors that can affect womxn's health and influence their access to healthcare services, facilities and medicines (Ezeah and Achonwa, 2015, p. 47; NPC and ORC Macro, 2004, pp. 39–40, 127–128) Nonetheless, the problems associated with accessing drugs within the context of a patent right and the effect on their rights to health cannot be underestimated, hence the focus in this article.11
PART 3: SOLVENCY
DEBATES ABOUT WOMXN’S RIGHTS DANCE AROUND THE REAL ISSUES – from Texas abortion laws to birth control regulation, we’re treated as political pawns, NOT people. Northup13
Northup: Northup, Nancy. President and CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights “Huffington Post: The Fight for Womxn’s Reproductive Rights Can’t Just Be About Winning or Losing the Abortion War” Center For Reproductive Rights, 2013. JP
With the 40th anniversary this month of the historic Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade has come a steady stream of op-eds, features, and debates in the media—with many, like a recent cover story inTIME, taking the position that abortion rights supporters have been losing in terms of politics and public opinion. We need to engage in careful, thoughtful, substantive discussions about the services necessary for womxn’s well-being throughout their lives: comprehensive sex education in our schools, domestic violence resources, affordable and reliable contraception, fertility treatments, affordable child care, safe pregnancy and maternal health care, and yes, abortion services.
THE PREFORMANCE IS NECESSARY TO SHINE LIGHT ON THE CULTURE OF INEQUALITY.
WE ADVOCATE THAT Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections as a means to include and liberate womxn. ONLY THE PERFORMANCE CAN FULFILL THE 1AC. (I’ll spec if asked, no T w/o checks).
THUS, THE ROLE OF THE BALLOT IS TO METHODOLOGICALLY AND PERFORMATIVELY LIBERATE THE OPRESSED
PREFER:
1 THE BALLOT IS A PERFORMATIVE ACT. EVERY BALLOT MATTERS- REPRETITION IS WHAT CONFERS POWER ON THE PERFORMATIVE ACT. TO BE HONEST, I COULDN’T CARE LESS ABOUT YOUR AMAZING NEG STRAT THAT IS NEVER GOING TO BE HEARD OF PAST THIS DEBATE. VOTING AFF BRINGS REAL VOICES AND EXPERIENCES INTO THE DEBATE SPHERE, MAKING THE PERFORMANCE THE BEST WAY TO ACTUALLY MAKE CHANGE.
Polson ’12. Dana Roe Polson, Ph.D., 2012, ““Longing for Theory:” Performance Debate in Action”, A Dissertation Submitted for the role of Ph.D. Reviwed by Dr. Christine Mallinson, Assistant Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture. Polson has a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia and a Ph.D. in Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Retreived from file:///C:/Users/amitg/OneDrive/Documents/Debate/LD2 019/stock/read/ Longing_for_Theory_Performance_Debate_in.pdf
I had long known Aaron as a loquacious talker—a student who always had a running commentary going on about events unfolding around him, his thoughts, what he found funny. How are they perpetuated?
2 OVERCOMING OPRESSION MUST BEGIN IN EDUCATIONAL SPACES LIKE DEBATE
Spanos ’93. William Spanos “The End of Education: Towards Posthumanism” Professor of English at Binghampton University
In insisting that the theoretical practice of the oppositional intellectuals ought to be a local and regional struggle aimed at revealing and undermining power, Foucault, like the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School before him (Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse) locates this struggle at the site of culture in general, where by means of the discursive practices that constitute it, power is “most invisible and insidious.”if not for knowledge’s own sake.