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content/session/ongenderessentialismandbiomedicalviolence.md

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 title: On Gender, Essentialism and Biomedical Violence
 ---
 
-## Biotranslab. Open Laboratory of Hackable Gyna(eco)logy
+# Biotranslab. Open Laboratory of Hackable Gyna(eco)logy
 
-> "There are not two sexes, but a multiplicity of genetic, hormonal, chromosomal, genital, sexual and sensual configurations. There is no truth about gender, the masculine and the feminine, apart from a set of normative cultural fictions.” - Paul B. Preciado. Testo Junkie. Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in The Pharmacopornographic Era
+> "There are not two sexes, but a multiplicity of genetic, hormonal, chromosomal, genital, sexual and sensual configurations. There is no truth about gender, the masculine and the feminine, apart from a set of normative cultural fictions.” - Paul B. Preciado. Testo Junkie. Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in The Pharmacopornographic Era[^1]
 
 Biotranslab, articulated and coordinated by [Pechblenda](https://pechblenda.hotglue.me/), one of the multiple disruptive nodes of [Hackteria](https://www.hackteria.org/) is a nomadic laboratory open to experimentation with biomaterials and technology(ies), based on a learning-by-doing approach. As a queer lab, it seeks the opening of a particular space-time, a place for the confluence of cyber-cyborgs, cyber-witches and degenerate alchemists.
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ From a trans-hack-feminist perspective, Biotranslab is a co-laboratory based on
 - Hotglue gun
 - Soldering iron (optional) 
 
-## Materials
+# Materials
 
 # Microscope (for 1 microscope) 
 
@@ -41,17 +41,20 @@ The DIT MICROSCOPE consists of three components, assembled in this sequence:
 - Stable observation platform 
 - Illumination with a light-emitting diode (LED)
 
-## Introduction
+# Introduction
 
 Brief introduction to Transhackfeminist practices.
 
 Quick overview of some individual and collective research processes. Path towards the technological autonomy of body, mind and environment. Thinking together nature and technology, artificial and not-artificial, and other binomials.
 Body, immersion of the body in technology: crossings, extensions and hybridizations. Potentialities of the technological body, performativity and transgender. Uses of technology /postgender/chimeras and body extensions. Recreate, invent and perform our desires dreaming and fantasizing with new experiences.
 
-## Step 1: Build a microscope
+# Step 1: Build a microscope
 
 Introduction of the main optics construction technique for the elaboration of a microscope from a webcam.
 
 Source: https://hackteria.org/wiki/DIY_microscopy
 
 Biotranslab reference: http://paulapin.net/biotranslab/ 
+
+---
+[^1]: ![](bib:30917e17-1e21-4bdc-8193-6f0f92329b8d)

content/session/whatiscare.md

@@ -8,6 +8,45 @@ title: Situating Care
 The term care can refer to a broad variety of activities and hold different meanings for different people. And yet, all depend on its provision to some extent, all practice it , albeith in widely different conditions, and all experience its effects, in negative and positive ways. Below you will find an activity that can help situating one’s experience of care; followed by some key definitions of care and a list of resources to unpack its various meanings and implications, organised in four groups: Care Ethics, Care of the Self, Caring as a Way of Knowing, Care Labour and Social Reproduction. 
 
 
+## Introduction exercise: Care in your languages?
+
+This exercise can be practice also by those whose only language is English. 
+Other languages have more than one word to express the meaning of care. If you are in a group where people speak different languages (or yourself do), it can be generative to list how care and similar concepts are expressed in these languages, how and when are these used, and what aspects of care they capture. Try to think of different context for when these words might be used and by whom, and what impressions or images are associated with them.
+
+If for you or your group the only language is English, you can skip this first passage and move to the second moment of this reflection.
+
+The second step in this introductory exercise would consist of finding synonyms of the world ‘care’ or ‘caring’. Can you group them in different categories? Are there particular places of people associated with them? 
+
+Finally, generate a list of activities that you associate with ‘care labour’. Do these activities share some characteristics? What kinds of skills are necessary for each? And what kind of resources and tools? Can you group the different kind of work together in different sub-groups? What might be different criteria for doing so? Are particular places or persons excluded from this listed activities? 
+
+This exercise can be used as entry points to initiate a collective reflection on care for a group who might want to revisit its own way of perceiving, distributing and valuing its labour. The literature on care is vast, and it is therefore important to ask oneself what do we need to learn in the process of engaging with it? What needs change?  
+
+**
+Some definitions of care and social reproduction:**
+
+- Joan Tronto and Berenice Fisher. "Toward a feminist theory of caring." Circles of care: Work and identity in women’s lives (1990): 35-62:
+
+> In the most general sense, care is a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue and repair our world so that we may live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, ourselves and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web. 
+
+- Yeates, Nicola. 2004. “Global Care Chains. Critical Reflections and Lines of Enquiry” International Feminist Journal of Politics, 6 (3): 369–91:
+> a range of activities and relationships that promote the physical and emotional well-being of people “who cannot or who are not inclined to perform these activities themselves 
+
+- Camille Barbagallo, The Impossibility of the International Women’s Strike is Exactly Why It’s So Necessary, Novara Media, 6th March 2017. https://novaramedia.com/2017/03/06/the-impossibility-of-the-international-womens-strike-is-exactly-why-its-so-necessary/:
+> All the work we (mostly women) do that makes and remakes people on a daily basis and intergenerationally.
+
+- David Graeber, twitter communication:
+> Caring labour is aimed at maintaining or augmenting another person’s freedom.
+
+-  Nacy Fraser. "Contradictions of capital and care." New left review 100.99 (2016): 117:
+https://newleftreview.org/issues/II100/articles/nancy-fraser-contradictions-of-capital-and-care
+
+> interactions that produce and maintain social bonds.
+
+- María Puig de la Bellacasa "‘Nothing comes without its world’: thinking with care." The Sociological Review 60.2 (2012): 197-216:
+
+> To care about something, or for somebody, is inevitably to create relation. Caring is more than an affective-ethical state: it involves material engagement in labours to sustain interdependent worlds, labours that are often associated with exploitation and domination.
+
+
 ## Grounding exercise: Organisational Mapping of Care 
 
 (Alone or as a group)
@@ -18,7 +57,7 @@ Map a typical day in your everyday life across the different organizations/insti
 
 As a second step, add into the map (some or all) the main people with whom you interact in the different organisations. 
 
-Now consider the following definition of care offered by Evelyn Nakano Glenn (author of Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America, Harvard University Press, 2010): 
+Now consider the following definition of care offered by Evelyn Nakano Glenn (author of [Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America](https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/ab05564f-e1b0-4172-94ac-39efe920768f), Harvard University Press, 2010):
 
 
 > Caring can be defined most simply as the relationships and activities involved in maintaining people on a daily basis and intergenerationally. Caring labor involves three types of intertwined activities. First, there is direct caring for the person, which includes physical care (e.g., feeding, bathing, grooming), emotional care (e.g., listening, talking, offering reassurance), and services to help people meet their physical and emotional needs (e.g., shopping for food, driving to appointments, going on outings). The second type of caring labor is that of maintaining the immediate physical surroundings/milieu in which people live (e.g., changing bed linen, washing clothing, and vacuuming floors). The third is the work of fostering people's relationships and social connections, a form of caring labor that has been referred to as "kin work" or as "community mothering." An apt metaphor for this type of care labor is "weaving and reweaving the social fabric." All three types of caring labor are included to varying degrees in the job definitions of such occupations as nurses' aides, home care aides, and housekeepers or nannies. Each of these positions involves varying mixtures of the three elements of care, and, when done well, the work entails considerable (if unrecognized) physical, social, and emotional skills.
@@ -43,53 +82,11 @@ Keeping the three types of care labour described by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, chose a
 
 * Are there people in your map with whom you don't have any care interaction? What is their position in relation to you? 
 
-## Ice-breaking exercise: Care in your languages?
-
-This exercise can be practice also by those whose only language is English. 
-Other languages have more than one word to express the meaning of care. If you are in a group where people speak different languages (or yourself do), it can be generative to list how care and similar concepts are expressed in these languages, how and when are these used, and what aspects of care they capture. Try to think of different context for when these words might be used and by whom, and what impressions or images are associated with them.
-
-If for you or your group the only language is English, you can skip this first passage and move to the second moment of this reflection.
-
-The second step in this introductory exercise would consist of finding synonyms of the world ‘care’ or ‘caring’. Can you group them in different categories? Are there particular places of people associated with them? 
-
-Finally, generate a list of activities that you associate with ‘care labour’. Do these activities share some characteristics? What kinds of skills are necessary for each? And what kind of resources and tools? Can you group the different kind of work together in different sub-groups? What might be different criteria for doing so? Are particular places or persons excluded from this listed activities? 
-
-This exercise can be used as entry points to initiate a collective reflection on care for a group who might want to revisit its own way of perceiving, distributing and valuing its labour. The literature on care is vast, and it is therefore important to ask oneself what do we need to learn in the process of engaging with it? What needs change?  
-
-**
-Some definitions of care and social reproduction:**
-
-> In the most general sense, care is a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue and repair our world so that we may live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, ourselves and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web. 
-- Joan Tronto and Berenice Fisher, Fisher, Berenice, and Joan Tronto. "Toward a feminist theory of caring." Circles of care: Work and identity in women’s lives (1990): 35-62.
-
-> a range of activities and relationships that promote the physical and emotional well-being of people “who cannot or who are not inclined to perform these activities themselves 
-- Yeates, Nicola. 2004. “Global Care Chains. Critical Reflections and Lines of Enquiry” International Feminist Journal of Politics, 6 (3): 369–91.
-
-> All the work we (mostly women) do that makes and remakes people on a daily basis and intergenerationally.
-- Camille Barbagallo, The Impossibility of the International Women’s Strike is Exactly Why It’s So Necessary, Novara Media, 6th March 2017. https://novaramedia.com/2017/03/06/the-impossibility-of-the-international-womens-strike-is-exactly-why-its-so-necessary/
-
-> Caring labour is aimed at maintaining or augmenting another person’s freedom.
-- David Graeber
-
-> interactions that produce and maintain social bonds.
--  Fraser, Nancy. "Contradictions of capital and care." New left review 100.99 (2016): 117.
-https://newleftreview.org/issues/II100/articles/nancy-fraser-contradictions-of-capital-and-care
-
-
-> To care about something, or for somebody, is inevitably to create relation. Caring is more than an affective-ethical state: it involves material engagement in labours to sustain interdependent worlds, labours that are often associated with exploitation and domination.
-- de la Bellacasa, María Puig. "‘Nothing comes without its world’: thinking with care." The Sociological Review 60.2 (2012): 197-216.
-
-> Caring can be defined most simply as the relationships and activities involved in maintaining people on a daily basis and intergenerationally. Caring labor involves three types of intertwined activities. First, there is direct caring for the person, which includes physical care (e.g., feeding, bathing, grooming), emotional care (e.g., listening, talking, offering reassurance), and services to help people meet their physical and emotional needs (e.g., shopping for food, driving to appointments, going on outings). The second type of caring labor is that of maintaining the immediate physical surroundings/milieu in which people live (e.g., changing bed linen, washing clothing, and vacuuming floors). The third is the work of fostering people's relationships and social connections, a form of caring labor that has been referred to as "kin work" or as "community mothering."  An apt metaphor for this type of care labor is "weaving and reweaving the social fabric." All three types of caring labor are included to varying degrees in the job definitions of such occupations as nurses' aides, home care aides, and housekeepers or nannies. Each of these positions involves varying mixtures of the three elements of care, and, when done well, the work entails considerable (if unrecognized) physical, social, and emotional skills.
-- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America, Harvard University Press, 2010. https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/ab05564f-e1b0-4172-94ac-39efe920768f
-
-
-
-
 Different ways of thinking about care:
 
 
 
-1) CARE ETHICS:
+# Care Ethics
 
 
 “The moral theory known as “ the ethics of care” implies that there is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life. Normatively, care ethics seeks to maintain relationships by contextualizing and promoting the well-being of care-givers and care-receivers in a network of social relations. Most often defined as a practice or virtue rather than a theory as such, “care” involves maintaining the world of, and meeting the needs of, ourself and others.”
@@ -97,22 +94,22 @@ Different ways of thinking about care:
 - Care Ethics. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://www.iep.utm.edu/care-eth/#H2
 
 
-Some key readings:
+## Some key readings
 
-Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1993.
+- Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1993.
 
-Nel Noddings, Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics & Moral Education, University of California Press, 2013 [1984]. 
+- Nel Noddings, Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics & Moral Education, University of California Press, 2013 [1984]. 
 https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/8acc45a2-ea36-4e3f-a86f-e168692166e8
 
-Virginia Held, The ethics of care : personal, political, and global. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
+- Virginia Held, The ethics of care : personal, political, and global. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
 
-Joan C. Tronto, Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care, New York: Routledge, 1993.
+- Joan C. Tronto, Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care, New York: Routledge, 1993.
 
-Eva Feder Kittay, Love's Labor Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency, London Taylor and Francis, 2013.
+- Eva Feder Kittay, Love's Labor Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency, London Taylor and Francis, 2013.
 
 
 
-Further Resources:
+## Further Resources
 
 Website of the Foundation Critical Ethics of Care
 https://ethicsofcare.org/care-ethics/
@@ -129,15 +126,15 @@ Sandra Harding. “The Curious Coincidence of Feminine and African moralities: C
 
 
 
-2) CARE OF THE SELF
+# Care of the Self
 
-An introductory article:
+## Introductory reading
 
 André Spicer, “‘Self-care’: how a radical feminist idea was stripped of politics for the mass market.” The Guardian, 21 August 2019.
 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/21/self-care-radical-feminist-idea-mass-market
 
 
-Some key readings:
+## Some key readings
 
 Lorde,Audre.  A Burst of Light: and other essays. Mineola, New York: Ixia Press, an imprint of Dover Publications, 2017.
 https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/4795e144-32a3-4ee4-afd0-500199b1da41
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 There are several reasons why “know yourself” has obscured “take care of yourself.” First, there has been a profound transformation in the moral principles of Western society. We find it difficult to base rigorous morality and austere principles on the precept that we should give more care to ourselves than to anything else in the world. We are more inclined to see taking care of ourselves as an immorality, as a means of escape from all possible rules. We inherit the tradition of Christian morality which makes self-renunciation the condition for salvation. To know oneself was, paradoxically, a means of self-renunciation.
 - extract from “Technologies of the Self”.
 
-Further resources:
+## Further resources
 
 Shusterman, R. 2000. “Somaesthetics and Care of the Self: The Case of Foucault.” Monist 83(4): 530–551. doi:10.5840/monist200083429.
 
@@ -173,10 +170,10 @@ Webinar Summary: Self-Care and Collective Wellbeing. Co-hosted by AWID Forum’s
 
 
 
-3) CARING AS A WAY OF KNOWING
+# Caring as a Way of Knowing
 
 
-Some key readings:
+## Some key readings
 
 Haraway, Donna (1991), “Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective”, in Haraway, D. (ed.), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, 183–201, New York: Routledge. 
 https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/1b7e114c-84ae-40f6-b5a1-5509d848360f
@@ -188,7 +185,7 @@ Isabelle Stengers. The Care of the Possible: Isabelle Stengers Interviewed by Er
 https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/e65d708d-336d-45e0-bab1-73b6b89d8859
 
 
-Further resources:
+## Further resources
 
 Harding, Sandra, (1986), The Science Question in Feminism, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
 https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/6e8e06be-8bb4-4546-9092-787312e83b01
@@ -207,10 +204,10 @@ https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/f536b52a-8456-46c5-988d-fa1b17cd09bd
 
 
 
-4)  CARE LABOUR AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION 
+# Care Labour and Social Reproduction
 
 
-Some introductory readings:
+## Some introductory readings
 
 Silvia Federici, Camille Barbagallo, eds.  "Care Work" and the Commons. The Commoner Issue 15, 2012. 
 https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/fb5faeba-34ef-40b9-93e7-8d8dfc0ddd7a
@@ -224,7 +221,7 @@ https://www.leftvoice.org/On-Reproductive-Labor-Wage-Slavery-and-the-New-Working
 Yeates, N. (2004). "Global Care Chains." International Feminist Journal of Politics, 6(3), 369–391. doi:10.1080/1461674042000235573 
 
 
-Some key readings:
+## Some key readings
 
 Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James. The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community. The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community. Falling Wall Press, 1975.
 https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/95346722-4ad4-4d2d-a986-857716b2449d
@@ -250,7 +247,7 @@ Fraser, Nancy. "Contradictions of capital and care." New left review 100.99 (201
 https://newleftreview.org/issues/II100/articles/nancy-fraser-contradictions-of-capital-and-care
 
 
-Further resources:
+## Further resources
 
 Susan Ferguson at al. Historical Materialism Volume 24, Issue 2 (2016) Symposium on Social Reproduction.
 

content/topic/hormonestoxicityandbodysovereignty.md

@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ This topic includes the following sessions:
 - ![](session:micromacroconnections)
 - ![](session:urinehormoneextractionaction)
 
+# References
+
+Click here to for a complete [Hormones, Toxicity and Body Sovereignity reading list](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/horomonestoxicitybodysovereignty)

content/topic/transhackfeminism.md

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