Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
While gender has been largely debunked as a form of performance, biological sex remains an irreducible point of departure. This essay challenges biological sex as a category through the Foucauldian lens of bio-power and technologies of the self. It merges findings from interviews surrounding intersectionally marginalized experiences with menstruation with trans and disability studies. Utilizing Mel Chen’s theory of animacies, and Margrit Shildrick’s human-technology amalgamation theory, this essay blurs the biological-artificial binary. While there are obstacles, limiting what is biologically possible for humans, the body can be significantly augmented through imagination, body modification, and the invention of newly gendered practices.
Recommended Citation
Puskas, Beja, "Towards Designing and Performing Biological Sex: Explorations of the Cyborg and the Inanimate" (2026). Theatre and Dance Honors Projects. 12.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/thda_honors/12
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