Genetic Kinship and the Future of Human Genome Editing

This text offers a feminist inside view of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing. It reports on the narratives and voices that were prioritized, and the excitement and tensions that followed some of the arguments presented over the future, limitations, and potentiality of human genome editing. The text offers a snapshot of how ideas of reproduction and kinship shape some of the arguments in favor of and against the advancement of technological breakthroughs. It looks critically at the place of women in science and some of the blind spots of mainstream academia in the pursuit of a genuine global dialogue over the future of human evolution.