This coming January 15, WhiteFeather will deliver a keynote address to the community of researchers at University College Cork’s Future Humanities Institute for the Methodologies that Motivate symposium.

Radical Feminist Methodologies Across Art and Biosciences

Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter, artist and researcher, explores the intersection of art and biotechnology through a feminist lens to develop radical methodologies that challenge traditional scientific narratives and address research gaps. Collaborating with leading scientists and biolabs worldwide, she integrates cutting-edge research into her practice to redefine biotechnological approaches. By combining TechnoFeminism, bodily performance, and bioengineering, Hunter engages creatively and technoscientifically with her own biomaterials such as vaginal microorganisms and uterine cells. Her work critiques industrial-facing practices that promote depersonalized, disengaged modes of knowledge production, reducing biological materials to sanitized, commodifiable units. In response, Hunter reclaims agency over her biological matter through re-personalization and meaning-making, constructing new narratives around its specific origins and identifying features. This approach upends hierarchical norms and introduces frameworks of care and self-determination into scientific discourse. Through key works such as The Witch in the Lab Coat and Sentient Clit: Pussification of Biotech, Hunter demonstrates how taboo materials—such as menstrual blood and stem cells—can be employed within tissue engineering protocols to disrupt norms and reframe biotechnological perspectives. In an era where women face increasingly draconian laws over their bodies, Hunter’s TechnoFeminist strategies emerge as radical acts of biopolitical defiance, asserting autonomy and resistance within scientific and cultural contexts.

More information to come. View the Future Humanities website here: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/