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Your menstruation app is telling you not to panic about being pregnant while your body is telling you otherwise. At the same time, your neighbour might be falsely worrying about a predictive algorithm telling them they have decreased rates of fertility. SPUI25 explores the state of FemTech software and asks whether we should be using these apps, or not.
Event details of Expect these symptoms: Delusional FemTech
Date
29 November 2024
Time
17:00
Location
SPUI25

FemTech, or Female Technologies, are specially designed eHealth software applications with the promise to aid women’s health. Although it sounds like an opportunity to reduce gendered health-gaps, it seems as if we have reached a point in which the emancipatory goals are being overshadowed. Incorrect advice not only fosters delusion but can also pose a danger to the health of people with ovaries, especially those who are already marginalised in society.

SPUI25 in Spe explores the shape of contemporary FemTech software, aiming to understand ideological technicalities within these digital and datafied healthcare systems. What can we, menstruating or not, learn from the current state of affairs surrounding these female technologies? And should we even be using these apps?

Expect these symptoms: delusional FemTech is the second part of a medical-technological two-part sequence, of which the first panel on November 20th was about our collective (medical) ignorance about menstrual and hormonal cycles. The two parts can be followed together or separately from each other.

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