Jul 7, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 16 segments
This week in The Labia Lounge I interviewed the incredibly impressive Jiabao Li. Jiabao Li is an artist, inventor, and professor whose work explores more-than-human ecologies, feminist biotech…
Jiabao LiGuestBut the, the big thing that I think everyone's wanting to hear about, um, Sentient Clit, the pussification of biotech.
You and Dr. Whitefeather Hunter grew lab clitorises by isolating stem cells from your own menstrual blood and then 3D bioprinting them into anatomically accurate gel structures.
And there's a whole bunch of other stuff I had written down, but you can do a better job of explaining it.
The thing that grabbed me, well, like that's cool that you're doing that in the first place, but then the thing that grabbed me was like the way that the clitoris can respond intelligently to stimuli.

So, so the whole process is maybe I start with how this collaboration happened and then I go through the whole story.

So at first I was, I have painful period and it's like, I pulled out my tampon and put it in front of my husband's face.

Can we do something useful? Can, is there any useful information we can tell from this true blood? And, And he's a scientist, and he went through all the literature and found one paper that was on women on one period of one day, and that was a decade ago.

I've been collecting my menstruation blood and analyze it on mass spectrometry and found a lot of unique protein that only exists in menstruation blood that doesn't exist in venous blood.

And from that, I made an artwork that is an olfactory artwork that you smell the fresh menstruation, menstrual pain, and also menstruation blood.

It's like a menstrual pad that you have been wearing for a whole day, a long day, the smell of that.

And then inside, there's a sculpture garden that grows out of the menstruation blood.
But the, the big thing that I think everyone's wanting to hear about, um, Sentient Clit, the pussification of biotech.
You and Dr. Whitefeather Hunter grew lab clitorises by isolating stem cells from your own menstrual blood and then 3D bioprinting them into anatomically accurate gel structures.
And there's a whole bunch of other stuff I had written down, but you can do a better job of explaining it.
The thing that grabbed me, well, like that's cool that you're doing that in the first place, but then the thing that grabbed me was like the way that the clitoris can respond intelligently to stimuli.

So, so the whole process is maybe I start with how this collaboration happened and then I go through the whole story.

So at first I was, I have painful period and it's like, I pulled out my tampon and put it in front of my husband's face.

Can we do something useful? Can, is there any useful information we can tell from this true blood? And, And he's a scientist, and he went through all the literature and found one paper that was on women on one period of one day, and that was a decade ago.

I've been collecting my menstruation blood and analyze it on mass spectrometry and found a lot of unique protein that only exists in menstruation blood that doesn't exist in venous blood.

And from that, I made an artwork that is an olfactory artwork that you smell the fresh menstruation, menstrual pain, and also menstruation blood.

It's like a menstrual pad that you have been wearing for a whole day, a long day, the smell of that.

And then inside, there's a sculpture garden that grows out of the menstruation blood.
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