Dear all We have an exciting event Tuesday April 11th. Mary (Maggic) Tsang from MIT Media Labs (http://maggic.ooo/) will be with us that evening with some bio-art, bio-hacking, citizen science This will be a talk, followed by a hand-on workshop. Workshops will need RSVP and registration as space will be limited. I will send details on this next week. events will be at the University of Puget Sound. So save the date. Room TBD. Tentatively Talk 530-6pm followed by workshop 6-8pm (with limited slots). See blurb below and also the attached poster. In response to the various ways that institutions both pollute and regulate our bodies through hormones, the Estrofem! Lab develops various methods of "freak science" for hacking estrogen and demonstrating its molecular colonization. From yeast biosensors for detection to DIY column chromatography for urine-hormone extraction, these recipes serve as kinds of 'biotechnical civil disobedience,' combining body-gender politics and queer discourse with civic science. The workshop will begin with a short presentation followed by hormone-extraction action. Bring your own urine!. QUESTIONS AND DISCURSIVE EXERCISES: ? How do bodies queer at the molecular level? ? How does that queering change based on body-type, intention, exposure, and desire? ? How can we "hack" this process, by way of freak-kitchen-science? ? What is a gender anyway, if there are increased bio-queer options? ? What is normality anyway, if our bodies are so open to mutation? Art+Science at University of Puget Sound www.pugetsound.edu/artsci artsci@pugetsound.edu Committee: Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Neuroscience Elise Richman, Art Suzanne Holland, Religion Peter Wimberger, Biology