[charlchi]

> Hester also makes compelling and unexpected links between these second-wave feminist strategies and those of contemporary transfeminism, uncovering unlikely affinities between schools of thought often positioned in antagonism. In both of these historical instances, individuals acquire power over their bodies through building networks and repurposing everyday technologies. For Hester, the Del-Em is a direct antecedent to online trans* communities providing medical support or even grey-market hormones. At the threshold of this continuum is another of Hester’s evocative examples – a transgenic plant developed by Open Source Gendercodes which allows laypeople to grow sex hormones within tobacco leaves.

For some reason I was expecting something more interesting than the same feminism and transgender politics...

[chobeat]

it is more interesting. It's about technology, it's about aliens, it's about new forms of being together.

Open-sourcing hormones is not really "same transgender politics".

It's about empowerment through technology and how to rethink technology to empower people. every technology creator should read it.