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My Hero: A Media Archaeology of Tiny Viewfinderless Cameras as Technologies of Intra-Subjective Action

May 6, 2022July 22, 2016 by Lisa Cartwright

This essay draws from visual studies, feminist science and technology studies, and performance studies to put into historical perspective the popular phenomenon of the small viewfinderless action camera. We are interested in how camera technology and camera practice are enmeshed in the gendered performance of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in an era during which the viewfinderless … Read more

Shooting Theory – An Accident of Fast Feminism

April 28, 2022July 22, 2016 by Shannon Bell

January 16, 2014University of TorontoFrom the colloquia series “Feminist & Queer Approaches to Technoscience” Rebecka Sheffield: I am very excited to introduce our speaker today, Dr. Shannon Bell. Dr. Bell is a performance philosopher who lives and writes philosophy in action and experimental philosophy. She is also the founder of fast feminism, or more to … Read more

Trans of Color Poetics: Stitching Bodies, Concepts, and Algorithms

May 6, 2022July 20, 2016 by Micha Cárdenas

On October 6, 2015, Keisha Jenkins was shot and killed in Philadelphia, becoming the twenty-first trans woman killed in the US that year. 2014 saw trans women of color gaining unprecedented visibility in the mainstream media, an increase in visibility that coincided with a dramatic increase in the number of murders, up from fourteen in … Read more

In Search of My Robot: Race, Technology, and the Asian American Body

June 16, 2022July 19, 2016 by Margaret Rhee

“Who is machine, who is creature, what is human?”—Glen A. Mazis, Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries “Boundaries don’t hold; times, places, beings bleed through one another.”—Karen Barad, “Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart” I’ve been searching, and in my search, I find my robot within and in the gaps between the deep legacy of feminist science and … Read more

A Future for Intersectional Black Feminist Technology Studies

April 28, 2022July 19, 2016 by Safiya Umoja Noble

The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based on the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. —Combahee River Collective, … Read more

Poop Worlds: Material Culture and Copropower (or, Toward a Shitty Turn)

April 28, 2022July 18, 2016 by Shaka McGlotten

There is something virtually every reader of this essay has done or will do today. Poop. Maybe on the run in a public stall or during a cherished break while reading or staring off. Most likely not into a diaper, but maybe you’ll clean one up. Poop unites us in a collective flow of fecund, … Read more

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues: Understanding the Nonprofit Industrial Complex

August 25, 2022January 13, 2016 by Dean Spade

In October 2013, BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project at The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School co-convened a conference called Queer Dreams and Non-Profit blues to examine the critiques emerging from queer and feminist activists and scholars about the impact of funding on social movement agendas and formations. During the … Read more

Archive from Below: Selections from Interference Archive

August 25, 2022January 13, 2016 by Lani Hanna

Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New York, is a volunteer-run, collectively operated space that explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. The Archive’s collections are comprised of material culture produced and disseminated through social movements. This exhibit has been put together to present visual culture that illustrates the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC); it represents … Read more

About this Issue

May 6, 2022January 13, 2016 by Olivia Cummings

This issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, edited by scholar-activists Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse, explores the nonprofit and the university as two key sites in which neoliberalism’s gendered and racialized social and economic formations are constituted and contested, opening new possibilities in the critical work of resisting and imagining beyond the nonprofit industrial … Read more

The Academic Boycott of Israel

August 25, 2022January 12, 2016 by Hope Dector

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement has made incredible strides in recent years, from successful campaigns to deny municipal contracts to Veolia, a transit company involved in the Jerusalem Light Rail project, to musician Lauryn Hill’s widely publicized cancellation of a performance in Israel. U.S.-based solidarity work has especially taken off on college campuses, … Read more

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