Recoded Feminisms

• In Event: Decoding Feminist Futures: Digital Configurations

Abstract

While communications scholar Fred Turner’s seminal work From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2010) drew attention to the ways that counterculturalists and technologists joined together to re-imagine computers as tools for what they imagined was personal liberation, that history omitted the role of feminist technology activists and cyberfeminists had both in critiquing what became the mainstream development of communications technologies and developing their own technologies.

My paper addresses how cyberfeminists responded to the development of digital technologies and repurposed them for feminist activism. I will focus my discussion on the work of cyberfeminist organizations Subrosa and the ironically named, Old Boys Network.

Presenter

• Alex D. Ketchum, McGill University