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Fashion and Activism

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How Is Affect Related to the Social?

Abstract: This essay will describe the analytical frameworks that affect studies has propagated that will be especially helpful for the scholar/artist invested in social justice issues to learn about as they critically think and create. Given that affect theory and the study of emotions are vast fields, full of competing and conflicting ideas, I have […]

21-Apr-2022 / Eliza Steinbock / activism / fashion / video
Appreciate, Don’t Appropriate

Abstract: Cultural appropriation is an issue that arises often in questions around contemporary arts and culture. This essay explores and expounds on different examples and arguments around cultural appropriation, including defining common types of cultural appropriation and giving examples where this type of appropriation might have occurred in the contemporary arts. The essay seeks to […]

07-Apr-2022 / Renée Akitelek Mboya / appropriation / art / author / culture / original
Covid-19, Homophobia and the Bolsonarista Vernacular

Abstract: For the greater part of the 2010s and after the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president in 2018, Brazilian social media became an increasingly fertile ground for the exercise of public violence associated with political campaigning, often marked by gender, sexuality, class and race. As political tension increased with the outbreak of the Covid-19 […]

07-Apr-2022 / Horacio F. Sívori Bruno Zilli / Brazil / gender / hate speech / homophobia / instagram / twitter
Feminist Internet Research Is Messy

Abstract: Feminist internet research is messy and conducting meta-research on feminist internet research is even messier. This is a critically reflective article on the author’s experience conducting a meta-research project on the feminist internet research methodologies and ethical frameworks of the eight Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) research projects. The piece argues that the messiness […]

07-Apr-2022 / Nyx McLean / feminism / internet research / messy research / meta-research
Feminist Design Practices

Abstract: Feminist and design justice principles can be adopted into research praxis to make knowledge less extractive and more accessible. These principles include making research and outreach more participatory, translating academic knowledge into more accessible forms, and channelling research into action that can challenge patriarchy and other systems of domination. This paper focusses on the […]

07-Apr-2022 / Aayush Rathi Akash Sheshadri Ambika Tandon / care work / domestic work / feminist principles / feminist research / participatory design / platform economy / translation
Feminist by Design

How to Build a Feminist Internet and Why It Matters Feminist By Design is ambitious in its title and aims. The journal showcases research journeys, findings and feminist intentions, bringing together a diverse group of researchers from around the world who were part of the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN). FIRN focusses ‘on the […]

07-Apr-2022 / Feminist by Design/ Namita Aavriti Malhotra Tigist Shewarega Hussen Mariana Fossatti / care work / domestic work / feminist principles / feminist research / participatory design / platform economy / translation