Tactical Cyberfeminism:
An Art and Technology of Social Relations
By subRosa

SUBROSA PROJECTS

subRosa initiated debate on women and new reproductive technologies by means of open interdisciplinary community forums and actions. We organized panels with women from different areas of practice-- fertility doctors, feminist ethicists and theologians, feminist artist/activists, women's studies, nursing, and infertile women.

We performed Cheaper by the Dozen on the Carnegie Mellon campus, and produced a poster that addressed the issue of soliciting egg-donors from young college girls at elite colleges and Universities, and the relation of ART's to old, and new, eugenics.

subRosa wants to complicate the discussion about Assisted Reproductive Technologies which often divides along the simplistic binary of good vs. bad: those who point out its beneficial aspects, and those who are opposed to any kind of technological intervention in the "natural" reproductive process.


Does she or Doesn't She:
Cheaper By the Dozen

Street performance and poster action addressing the issue of soliciting egg 'donors' from elite colleges and universities, and the relation of Advanced ReproTech to old, and new, eugenics. 1999.
Photo: Beth Monoian.

Our work addresses the normalization and naturalization of ART through the rhetorics of its entrepreneurial development and direct digital marketing to the public. We need to understand and decode the systems of representation and marketing of these processes to women, and to engage with how women are perceiving and using them, as well as to discuss publicly their social and political implications for everyone. Thus our work often borrows the strategies and signage of consumer marketing targeted at women.

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