Our embodied practice includes collective work on performances, publications, residencies, web-sites, and actions; self-education and consciousness raising; technical training and skill sharing; conviviality, flesh meetings, and collaboration with other groups and individuals. 

subRosa brings a critical feminist framework, and a history of feminist activism to its work. For the past two years we have focused on Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) because there is a need to address the gendered and raced effects of this branch of biotechnology. We wanted to analyze how in the Biotech century the female body has become the pre-eminent laboratory and rich body-parts mine for a lucrative and largely untested medical/ pharmaceutical industry. And specifically we wanted to address and de-code Repro-tech's historical connections to eugenics and colonizing ideologies.

This branch of biotech directly engages many classic feminist issues: Women defined as a subject and object of science and technology in relation to the reproductive process; invasion, surveillance and control of women's bodes and life-styles; women as the laboratory for experimental scientific processes; culturally compulsory motherhood; women as a target market for new repro-genetic engineering and medical intervention.

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