Opening Up Space: A Lovely Technofeminist Opportunity

Erasure

Historically, erasure has been the process of ignoring nondominant groups in relation to race, class, and gender. In this process of ignoring, there is also a sense of "collective indifference that renders certain people and groups invisible" (Sehgal). Further, erasure does not have one form as it can take on multiple forms (i.e. through revisionist history, alienating a nondominant group from society, etc.). It is especially important to note that while forms of erasure can happen to virtually any nondominant group depending on the context of that particular form of erasure, one has to keep in mind the origins of this concept of erasure traces back to naming the treatment of Indigenous people (Hall). Although, throughout this anthology, indigenous erasure will not be the focus of why we use this term, we have to acknowledge where and the context of where this word comes from in order to not create a revisionist history within our anthology that erases the originally meaning of word itself. At the heart of this anthology, we are working to recover women who have been rendered invisible for a multitude of reasons. Through this, erasure is a theme that will be found in several selections within this anthology. 

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