EVENT 3 - Mary Maggic 4/22
Event Post - Mary Maggic 4/22 I had the privilege of attending Mary Maggic’s talk, “We’re All Living in the Estroworld” on April 22, 2022. Her talk illuminated a different way of combining bio and art, especially for political communication. She discusses heteronormative structures, the alienation of bodies, and the symbolic representation of molecules. For example, she illustrates the estrogen receptor and how it is currently vulnerable to toxins and chemicals from capitalistic institutions. Maggic, Mary. We’re All Living in the Estroworld . Screenshot. 2022. Mary goes further to discuss how institutions and capitalism, impact our bodies. One phrase she uses to describe the impact of toxins in our bodies was “molecular colonization”. We do not know where these toxins or plastics come from which is similar to the idea of colonization where we do not know the exact origins of how certain things came to be due the complexity of tracing it back. This phrase also helps promote the ide...
