Queering is not only a deviation from hetero-cis-normativity, but also a spontaneous discovery of an interspecies entanglement. A transgender person undergoing hormone replacement therapy builds an intimate connection with horses by consuming conjugated estrogen produced from the urine of pregnant mares. And again through urine, estrogen travels from the human body to rivers, and ‘queers’ the aquatic ecosystem by increasing the rate of ‘intersex’ fish. Hormones travel between species sharing receptors for the same molecules, in this case, starting from mares, to humans and eventually to fish. Eels are also part of a network of organisms loosely connected with hormones. The very first artificial sexual maturation of a male eel was done by injecting the eel with the urine extract of pregnant women. It was discovered later that what induced the spermatogenesis was human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), the same hormone that a pregnancy test strip detects from urine.
💧Diagramming Diversely
💧Reduction by Grahpic Design
💧Representing More-than-human
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