What if it were possible to synthesize hormones in the kitchen? Imagine if this was as easy and simple as cooking a meal. “Housewives Making Drugs” (2017) is a fictional cooking show by Mary Maggic where the trans-femme stars, Maria and Maria teach the audience at home step-by-step how to cook their own hormones. They perform a simple “urine-hormone extraction recipe” while amusing the audience with their witty back-and-forth banter about body and gender politics, institutional access to hormones, and everything problematic with heteronormativity. Choosing the kitchen as the appropriate battleground for tackling body/gender politics and institutional access, the cooking show aims to challenge/subvert patriarchal society and speculate on a world with greater body sovereignty for all.
Featuring: JADE PHOENIX and JADE RENEGADE as “Maria” and “Maria”
Created by: MARY MAGGIC, MANGO CHIJO TREE, THE JAYDER
Written by: MARY MAGGIC, JADE PHOENIX, JADE RENEGADE
Extras: AUDREY MERCADO ORTIZ, CHRISTINE WANG, VINCE RABAJA, PHYL ETIENE JOHNSON, MANGO CHIJO TREE as “The Assistant”
Music: LEAH ANN MITCHELL
“Estro-gin Song” by MANGO CHIJO TREE