technofeminism

(RE)GENERATIONS AND INTERSECTIONAL FUTURES

TechnoFeminisms: A Conversation About Pasts, Presents, and Futures


Evolving a Field: Technofeminism in an Era of Trump


Cindy: It’s so impressive that the feminists keep coming back and keep coming back and keep coming back. It’s the kind that don’t give up. Don’t give up the ship thing. If you don’t keep pushing, look at what’s happening in our culture. Look at how Roe vs. Wade is being threatened.

Gail: In the five minutes during which we’ve talked, DACA is now gone. Trump said they have six months to get rid of it.

Cindy: Six months. Screw him. Just put that in there! Put that in there Dànielle, screw Trump! Forget it!


Pam: This only makes us more necessary, I think. Maybe technofeminism ought to be called feminist technologism or something because what we’ve been saying this whole time is that our questions as feminist scholars have always been about how the technology supports or interferes with our ability to be human. And I think feminists will only continue to do that. And so it seems the issue is then what does the feminism look like moving forward? It’s not what the technology looks like; we can’t predict that. We have to more and more make intersectional feminism the default feminism. Because if our questions are about how does these things help us to be human, we know that even the category of woman is not stable. It never has been stable, but we’re more aware of the ways that when you say woman scholar, that could be exclusive or it could be inclusive.

We have to more and more make intersectional feminism the default feminism. Because if our questions are about how does these things help us to be human, we know that even the category of woman is not stable.

Cindy: But not just intersectional, also pragmatic. That’s part of why second generation feminism I think had a difficult time. Pragmatism today, it’s pragmatism hourly, daily, issue by issue basis to make those intersectional connections.