Open Source Estrogen / Housewives making drugs
2015-2017
Mary Maggic
Website, video
Imagines a world where estrogen for hormone replacement therapy can be produced at home.
OPEN SOURCE ESTROGEN: HOUSEWIVES MAKING DRUGS COMBINES DO-IT-YOURSELF SCIENCE, BODY AND GENDER POLITICS, AND ETHICS OF HORMONAL MANIPULATION.THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT IS TO CREATE AN OPEN SOURCE PROTOCOL FOR ESTROGEN BIOSYNTHESIS.THE KITCHEN IS A POLITICALLY CHARGED SPACE PRESCRIBED TO WOMEN AS THEIR PROPER DWELLING, THEREFORE MAKING IT THE PRECISE CONTEXT TO PERFORM AN ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS RECIPE.WITH RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, THE CUSTOMIZED KITCHEN LABORATORY MAY BE A UBIQUITOUS POSSIBILITY IN THE NEAR FUTURE.OPEN ACCESS ESTROGEN WOULD ALLOW WOMEN AND TRANSGENDER FEMALES TO EXERCISE GREATER CONTROL OVER THEIR BODIES BY CIRCUMVENTING GOVERNMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS.WE WANT TO ASK: WHAT ARE THE BIOPOLITICS GOVERNING OUR BODIES? MORE IMPORTANTLY, IS IT ETHICAL TO SELF-ADMINISTER SELF-SYNTHESIZED HORMONES?
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