The Speculum as A Symbol of Female Empowerment: Responding to Donna Haraway’s “Fetus”

After discussing Donna Haraway’s Fetus: The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order in class, I found myself questioning the notion of the gynaecological speculum as a symbol and tool…

A Feminist’s Speculum

Responding to Fetus, by Donna Haraway, and The Egg and the Sperm, by Emily Martin

In Fetus, Donna Haraway talks about the speculum as an instrument that represents both a symbol of U.S. feminist politics in the 1970s, as well as an apparatus for seeing. Samaa and I…

Immaterial Digital Labour

Responding to Free Labour: Producing Culture For The Digital Economy, by Tiziana Terranova

Terranova, writing in 2000, brings up a lot of interesting points that seem more relevant than ever in our contemporary digital society. She talks about unpaid digital…

Feminism(s) as Virus

In response to Chela Sandoval

During our video dialogue in class this week, I brought up the concept of the virus in relation to Sandoval’s differential consciousness and tactics. Since this is a course about digital feminism(s), my mind immediately correlated the…

Tactics of Brown Bodies

Responding to U.S. Third World Feminism, by Chela Sandoval

Sandoval’s reading highlights the differences between “strategies” and “tactics”. Strategies are designed to shift cultural norms. They are largely theoretical, and deployed in order to achieve large…

Response to Tavi’s Introduction

After listening to Colby-Sawyer’s cohort of introductions, as well as those from our own class, I realized that the introduction exercise itself is a literal form of the act of becoming. Exiting our comfort zones and exposing ourselves to vulnerability, we recite our…