Kinder/Garden Redux?

It’s been almost two years (!), but I’m planning to revive Kinder/Garden this summer with more fetal vegetables. Some changes? Well of course! This time I’ll be growing fetal pigs (and maybe some other baby animals?) “Why?” you wonder. Well first because fetal pigs are a mainstay of biology teaching and are readily (and cheaply!) [...]

Betty Crocker and the preservation of childhood

Adapted from Betty’s dill pickles (note, there are no spices, so I can’t vouch for taste – the intention being preservation not edibility…) 1) Heat jars in a hot water bath, then boiling water. 2) Boil 5 cups vinegar, 7 cups water, 1/2 cup pickling salt. 3) Place babies in each jar. 4) Add boiling [...]

Eating people and operating on vegetables

Fetal cannibalism, I have no clue what to write here… I’d like to pretend I’d never heard about it, but it seems unavoidable.  Zhu Yu is a Chinese artist that I came across during my day at the library. I can’t even recall in which text he appeared. (Perhaps in the excellent The Molecular Gaze, [...]

Whoa… misogynecology?

I’ve been thinking lots about surveillance and reproduction, foetal imaging and the ways women’s rights and identities diminish as those of the unborn increase… So tonight I’m skimming an article by Lyle Massey about the obstetrical waxes at La Specola and how in contrast to the collections’ idealized wax Venuses, there are a number of [...]