Magical Life
摘要
Magical Life, Nathanael Elias Mengist and Irina Aristarkhova ask “Whose/what life is magical?” In doing so, they offer their visions of creative and just reproductive futures inspired by subRosa and Wu Tsang’s non-binary worldbuilding of “undoing gender,” alchemic histories through cyberfeminist and postcolonial lens, transmutation in Black feminist thought, “reproductive mutual aid” in Black kinship (Greenlee) and Argentinian “abortion joy” (Happ). They center subRosa’s Yes Species and Sex and Gender in the Biotech Century within a contemporary framework of feminist technoscience studies and biopolitics of knowledge production, and offer the creative contributions of DIY Homunculi, plant-Assisted Reproductive Technologies (pARTs), Indecision Trees, and a method of compassionate inquiry in their quest for a magical life.