What might happen if a Venus Butterfly bioprint twitched with the synchronized pulse of heart muscle cells embedded in its wings?

WhiteFeather Hunter’s new essay, “Witching the Scaffold: Feminist Bioprinting and the Speculation of Possible Bodies,” is out now in ASAP/Review as part of Shapeshifting and the Other/worldly, edited by Sandra Huber and Victoria Papa. Hunter writes about growing cells from her own menstrual blood and the daily labour of keeping them alive. She approaches bioprinting as an act of divination, asking what forms a body might take if its reconstruction began with what it could become.

READ WhiteFeather’s article here: https://asapjournal.com/node/shapeshifting-and-the-other-wordly-witching-the-scaffold-feminist-bioprinting-and-the-speculation-of-possible-bodies/

Read the full issue here: https://asapjournal.com/cluster/shapeshifting-and-the-other-worldly/