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The jock-cup is an object designed for the preservation of human reproductive organs, it protects the wearer from impact when running interference with forces of offense, defending both the reproductive future of that body and the continuity of a bloodline. Specifically, MTF transgender bodies are left in a state of biological limbo, chemically castrated by the sparkling promise of divine feminine biomedical intervention. The inside of the jock cup has been inoculated with 6 cultivated skin microbiome samples of my non-genealogical, chosen family members. This micro-terrarium serves as a generative soft architecture, housing and preserving queer biological kin making. Forming a world in which parts of ourselves can live, die and putrefy together amidst planetary socio-reproductive emergencies. 

Materials:  Photopolymer resin, mammalian polymer coating, unfired porcelain, latex, bacterial cultures (6), nutrient media,