Open Source Gendercodes: growing sex hormones in plants

http://opensourcegendercodes.com/projects/osg/ Open Source Gendercodes (OSG) is a project focused on developing an open source platform for the production of sex hormones. The development of a transgenic plant that could allow “laypeople” to grow sex hormones would not only call into question the cultural and institutional frameworks that govern queer and trans bodies, it would also challenge the current system of pharmaceutical production. Can we imagine a communal system of pharmaceutical production in which biological materials are collectively owned? My goal is to make sex hormones more accessible to queers, trans people, gender-hackers, and anyone who could benefit from more affordable access. This work is a protest against the pathologization of gender variation and a proposal for an alternative to the privatized pharmaceutical industry. Click the link to learn more and consider donating to help me take OSG to the next stage at Pelling Lab. http://opensourcegendercodes.com/projects/osg/