Feminists witness legal worlds as they observe, document and share nothing less than the reproduction of life itself. The world of the abortion trail, where people and things move across borders to change life’s reproduction, has generated a rich variety of legal sources, figures and objects for feminist witnessing. In watching how feminist activists improvise with sources, figures and objects of legal consciousness on the abortion trail, this article seeks to contribute to critical understanding of a plurality of witnessing practice, particularly as it emerges in diaspora space. Focusing on Murphy’s concept of immodest witnessing, with its attention to bodies, protocols and apparatuses as constituents of knowledge, the article thinks with the diasporic feminist performance group, Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A., about how they used self-examination, collaboration and knowledge-sharing on the trail to repeal Ireland’s 8th Amendment. The article argues that their improvisation with legal consciousness of reproductive choice enacts ‘cheeky witnessing’. Cheeky witnessing has three dynamics as a method of observation. First, it is messy and irreverent in innovating with names to display the mixed genealogies of feminist knowledge. Second, cheeky witnessing generates novel subject-figures who make connections between different reproductive labourers as observers of the trail in diaspora space. Third, cheeky witnessing places funny objects, knickers in this instance, so as to join up particular public locations and make them more, if unevenly, comfortable for sexual and reproductive bodies. Cheeky witnessing shows us how committed and partial practices play a role in speaking across interests and experiences, in stretching the legal imagination and in sustaining the everyday grind of making a better world.

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厚脸皮的见证

女权主义者在观察、记录和分享生活本身的过程中见证了法律世界。堕胎之路的世界，人与物跨越国界，改变生命的再生产，为女性主义见证产生了丰富多样的法律来源、人物和对象。在观察女权主义活动家如何在堕胎之路上即兴创作法律意识的来源、人物和对象时，本文试图为批判性理解多种见证实践做出贡献，尤其是当它出现在侨民空间时。专注于墨菲的不谦虚见证的概念，关注身体、协议和设备作为知识的组成部分，文章与散居女权主义表演团体一起思考了 IMELDA，关于他们如何使用自我检查，在废除爱尔兰第 8 修正案的道路上进行合作和知识共享。文章认为，他们即兴创作的生殖选择的法律意识形成了“厚颜无耻的见证”。厚颜无耻的目击作为一种观察方法具有三种动态。第一，用名字创新来展示女性主义知识的混合谱系是混乱和不敬的。其次，厚颜无耻的见证产生了新的主题人物，他们在不同的生殖劳动者之间建立了联系，作为散居空间中踪迹的观察者。第三，在这种情况下，厚颜无耻的见证会放置有趣的物体，在这种情况下内裤，以便连接特定的公共场所，并使它们对性和生殖身体更加舒适，如果不均匀的话。