Collection of links about female cycle, female biology, tracking,…
Tracking (and contraception) apps & devices
Apps with thermometers:
https://trackle.de/ - let’s all sleep with a thermometer up our vaginas!!??
monitoring hormone levels:
http://uk.clearblue.com/contraception/persona-monitor
spit ferning microscopes:
???
DIY alternative: https://fertilityproject.tumblr.com/DIYfertilitytracking
Discussion around the parallels between discussion about environmental conservatism/purity and gender normativity.
@marymaggic recommends…
Queer Ecologies
Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire
Edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzhnz
from this^ book:
CHAPTER 7 Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity (pp. 199-230) - GIOVANNA DI CHIRO
TOXIC SEXES
PERVERTING POLLUTION AND QUEERING HORMONE DISRUPTION
Malin Ah-King & Eva Hayward
Things we found that look interesting but we didn’t read them yet:
Genital Evolution: Why Are Females Still Understudied?
Malin Ah-King, Andrew B. Barron, Marie E. Herberstein
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001851
Transxenoestrogenesis - Eva Hayward
http://tsq.dukejournals.org/content/1/1-2/255.full
Feminist and Queer Technoscience
Module Outline, Dr. Zach Blas, Autumn 2015
http://www.zachblas.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/zachblas_feminist-queer-technoscience_module-outline_autumn2015.pdf
I really liked Michelle Murphy’s Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience(2012), whith a good chapter on the fascinating history of menstrual extraction. You can find it in your favorite bookstore, as well as on a well known Russian website.
…the point here being - we want to listen to and understand our bodies, and be animals with each other. If you need it, technology can support that - you can build it yourself, and it can be super low-tech. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SLEEP WITH A FUCKING THERMOMETER IN YOUR VAGINA!!
Well I never tried that, but I think I get your point. “Listen to”, not “measure”. Just wrote a blog post on “experiential knowledge”, which tries to capture that. Comments welcome!
Throwing another paper (aka, the fish dildo article) into the mix, this was
something I read last year in a seminar called Alterlife with Tim Choy. … I tried to upload the PDF but can’t so here’s a link, hopefully you can find it online somewhere: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/608469