Medical Humanities Research Group: Playing with Reproduction: Intergenerationality as a Crip Butterfly Effect

With guest speaker AJ Jones (Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology & Assistant Director of Anthropology's Medicine and Society Program, Washington University in St. Louis)

Every week for six months, she led a virtual, exploratory performance ethnography process with a multi-generational group of six "butterflies"—women all born with the genetic condition Turner Syndrome. As her interlocutors played with these expectations in our rehearsals, they engaged and expanded their existing intergenerational practices. Together, the knowledge dissemination, relationships, and care networks that flowed between different generations of those with Turner Syndrome secured new forms of legacy that bent reproductive and temporal binds.

AJ Jones is a medical and psychological anthropologist interested in subjectivity formation and the socio-medicalized frameworks that animate experiences of bodily difference. Utilizing performance ethnography and multimodal methodologies, her research seeks to simultaneously explore and foster accessibility and care-oriented approaches in anthropology. She is Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Assistant Director of Anthropology’s Medicine and Society Program.

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