Years before the Supreme Court ruled to end abortion rights, a team of curators started amassing a trove that explores the history of human reproduction through design. Now 200 objects are on display in a MAAMBoston exhibition.
Years before the Supreme Court ruled to end federal abortion rights, a team of curators started amassing a trove that explores the history of human reproduction. Now 200 objects are on display at the Mass Art Art Museum in a vast exhibition that feels more urgent than ever.
Millions of people regularly use objects related to reproduction, but we rarely talk about them. Millar Fisher co-curated this exhibition,"" , with other design historians, birth advocates, medical and midwifery experts to spark frank conversation.The show has been hard-won. And a long time coming.
Then there's the now-iconic version designed by the notorious surgeon J. Marion Sims. He experimented on enslaved Black women in the mid-1800s and an adaptation of the Sims speculum — as it's known — is still widely used today. Millar Fisher said some modern practitioners reject that moniker and instead refer to the object as the Lucy speculum to honor one of Sims' vulnerable test subjects.
Many of the devices here are objects of agency. Millar Fisher points to a postpartum, self-exam mirror and an at-home, mail-in cervical pap smear test created in the U.K. during the pandemic. Then we stop at a humble, DIY device in a glass case. The Del-Em can be traced back to a self-help clinic in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early '70s.
When the curatorial team tracked down this abortion kit a few years ago, they viewed it as a historical curiosity. “It now seems really terrifyingly prescient,” Millar Fisher said. “We hope that it remains under glass and that it is not something that needs to come out into circulation again.”The show also examines larger issues surrounding the labor it takes to raise an infant and how child care gets valued — if it does at all. “It's about socioeconomic justice.
“The show brings together these designs — some of them really lovely, some of them really scary,” she said. “The majority of them are designed by people without uteruses to be used on people with uteruses.”And Tung has hopes for the students who visit the galleries at MAAM, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design's teaching museum.
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