You cut me open and I...
I'd like to start this post off with a news item that's been getting a lot of attention this week. For her senior project, a Yale art student allegedly inseminated herself with sperm at the appropriate times throughout her menstrual cycle for nine months in hopes of becoming pregnant, then directly afterward took herbal medications that were expected to induce a miscarriage. She filmed herself during these "miscarriages" in a shower bleeding into a cup. Her installation is supposed to be a large cube wrapped in plastic wrap containing said blood.
Now, gross? Yes. However her explanation of said experiment (word I'm deciding to use) is quite thought provoking. Parts of it can be read here. Since the story broke Yale mouthpieces have come out to say that it's all a hoax and that she never really had a miscarriage or was ever pregnant. Who really knows? There were no doctors involved, this was just all "homegrown," to put it bluntly. Both anti-abortion and pro-choice activists are up in arms about the entire situation. Granted if what was supposed to happen actually did, it is a bit disturbing. However, if you look at it from her perspective in the fact that no one really knows what happened and they only way to define what blood she excreted is on the basis of perception... it's pretty interesting. That's all I'm saying.
In other news, life is good.
Now, gross? Yes. However her explanation of said experiment (word I'm deciding to use) is quite thought provoking. Parts of it can be read here. Since the story broke Yale mouthpieces have come out to say that it's all a hoax and that she never really had a miscarriage or was ever pregnant. Who really knows? There were no doctors involved, this was just all "homegrown," to put it bluntly. Both anti-abortion and pro-choice activists are up in arms about the entire situation. Granted if what was supposed to happen actually did, it is a bit disturbing. However, if you look at it from her perspective in the fact that no one really knows what happened and they only way to define what blood she excreted is on the basis of perception... it's pretty interesting. That's all I'm saying.
In other news, life is good.