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Glitch Feminism
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto | Legacy Russell
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A new manifesto for cyberfeminism The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create solidarity? The glitch is often dismissed as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures between gender, technology and the body that it creates. The glitch offers the opportunity for us to perform and transform ourselves in an infinite variety of identities. In Glitch Feminism, Russell makes a series of radical demands through memoir, art and critical theory, and the work of contemporary artists who have travelled through the glitch in their work. Timely and provocative, Glitch Feminism shows how the error can be a revolution.
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Though Glitch Feminism incorporates art and anecdotes, it‘s still very academic in tone – not a beginner‘s guide to queer theory, nor a light read. I‘m glad to have more insight into the malleability of our identities in the digital era, but probably could have used a primer first… Full review here: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/new-releases/

IuliaC Very evocatory cover 4y
Rehesina I feel like it did nothing groundbreaking for me. I wanted to love it, but I just couldn‘t. 4y
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Binary gender keeps us from our cosmic corporeality, that space where the body can expand and explore in the freedom of abstraction.

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This digital diaspora therefore is an important component of glitch, as it means that bodies in this era of visual culture have no single destination but rather take on a distributed nature, fluidly occupying many beings, many places, all at once.

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Glitch feminism demands an occupation of the digital as a means of world-building

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Rehesina

The glitch is for those selves joyfully immersed in the in-between, those who have traveled away from their assigned site of gendered origin.

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Rehesina
Mehso-so

“The glitch is an activist prayer, a call to action, as we work toward fantastic failure, breaking free of an understanding of gender as something stationary.”

The only thing I really took from it was that the world online is also a real world and the significance of AFK instead of IRL. However, I feel like this can be used as a good starting point if you want to learn more about glitch feminism. Shouldn‘t be read on a kindle though.