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LEARNING ABOUT ONLINE FEMINISM HERE

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We have so much to learn much about online feminist space from and within From Third Cinema to Media Justice Third World Majority and the Promise of Third Cinema! I will demonstrate how it connects, extends, and challenges its offline experiences, archives of media work, and living online contributions within shared structures of affect, process, politics, and production.

In the pathway that follows, I will map how this publication, and the archive it enlivens, evidence the core terms, methods, and strategies that might make a digital experience “feminist.” While engaging here, my findings about online feminist spaces have been affirmed, challenged and expanded. To do so, I have used this archive to think about “the possibilities and limitations of digital media for popular education, social and economic justice movement building, critical theory, and academic scholarship.” I will use three short pieces of writing culled from my feministolinespaces project to name, point to, and frame the radical feminist work located everywhere here:

1)   In "Learning from the Online Feminists,” I list 13 statements that help define what is core for my understanding of an “online feminist practice.” My statements were culled from the insights of my students who themselves looked closely at online spaces over three semesters by engaging close textual analysis, a media ethnography, and creating their own hybrid online/offline feminist media spaces. For each of the principles, I link to one or more object within this archive to either use it as a prime example of the principle or to build out the principle in exciting and perhaps unanticipated directions.

2) In Context is Politics, I engage in a similar project by ruminating on my students’ work and our complicated experience as feminists at Occupy LA. The offline context of lived activism allowed us to name “our growing idea that a feminist action, idea, goal, or identity only becomes political in context: i.e. in a community, an embrasive or democratic structure, an oppositional space, a home, online.”

3) Finally, in The Main Question, I list 16 terms that I use to frame answers to “What makes a, this, any space feminist?” I provide one last hermeneutic structure that might help to identify the kinds of radical, productive, transformative political practices that both emerge from and are archived in this site.


4) In my conclusion to this Dialogue, I identify what I saw here that was not named directly in my feministolinespaces project, thereby linking our feminist strongholds on the Internet into dialogue.

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  1. THIRD WORLD MAJORITY AS FEMINIST ONLINE SPACE Alexandra Juhasz

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