![]() Benestad, a progressive sexologist and one of Norway’s most public trans figures. ![]() One voice in the construction of this language is Esben Esther P. So, too, must the constructs of gender and the vocabulary we use to describe them. As a species, we continue to move beyond the constraints of the body. Language bears the responsibility of communication, and like typography, gender must be understood as an expressive format that evolves with the needs of its user. Hormones, regardless of their origins, flow through our bloodstream distributing “chemical messages”-to borrow a term used by Paul Preciado in Testo Junkie (The Feminist Press, 2013) -just as letterforms distribute words throughout bodies of text. Under this premise, in an era where hormone molecules are produced in laboratories and distinctions like “female” and “male” are eroding, the “gender hacker” can be seen as a radical innovator in the ongoing design of the human. ![]() The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial proposes that the ultimate aim of design is a redesign of the species. In a recent panel at the New Museum, artist Jacob Ciocci defined technology as “anything that organizes or takes apart reality,” which prompted a realization: gender could be also be understood as a kind of technology unto itself.
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