Surviving the Human Race? Julia Gatermann talks about reproductive justice, environmental sustainability, and queer posthuman entanglements at the EAAS '22 Wastelands conference

Radical New Becomings, Non-Human Entanglements, and Queer Reproduction in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu

Abstract
Women's reproductive rights continue to be highly contested ground where ideological battles are being waged to this very day, as the new Texas law severely restricting abortion as well as the respective Supreme Court ruling demonstrates. Another facet of this is the subjugation and control of the reproductive bodies especially of women of color that has a long history in the United States where forced sterilization was practiced as late as 1975 (cf. Madrigal v Quilligan). Furthermore, new reproductive technologies have generated new cultural and political anxieties, resulting in an increasing use of technology to monitor and police women's bodies. Taken outside of the 'natural', normative procreative context, with the technological possibilities of cloning and genetic engineering, what will the future of the human species look like and who will control it?

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