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Upgrading intersectional feminism with
the hacker class
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Part 1: Evolution of feminist cyborgs
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"By the late twentieth century, our time,
a mythic time, we are all chimeras,
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theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism — in short, cyborgs.
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The cyborg is our ontology;
it gives us our politics.
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The cyborg is a condensed image
of both imagination and material reality,
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the two joined centers structuring any
possibility of historical transformation."
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When the queen Elizabeth
of the United Kingdom
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sent her first email in 1976,
there were no feminists on the internet,
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it was just a military science project.
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A Cyborg Manifesto is considered
the beginning of cyberfeminism
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because Donna Haraway's position
was unique.
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"I am conscious of the odd perspective provided by my historical position
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a PhD in biology for an Irish Catholic girl
was made possible
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by Sputnik’s impact
on U.S. national science-education policy.
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I have a body and mind as much constructed
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by the post–Second World War arms race and Cold War
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as by the women’s movements.
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There are more grounds for hope
in focusing on the contradictory effects
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of politics designed to
produce loyal American technocrats,
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which also produced
large numbers of dissidents,
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than in focusing
on the present defeats."
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A Cyborg Manifesto was published in the Socialist Review magazine in 1985.
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Only 2000 hosts were connected to the internet
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and they were limited to a military, administrative and academic elite,
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predominantly bourgeois white cis men.
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Apple was already marketing itself
as the freedom warrior
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with an expensive commercial directed by Ridley Scott,
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aired during Super Bowl 1984 with an Orwellian theme.
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"The main trouble with cyborgs, of course,
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is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism,
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not to mention state socialism.
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But illegitimate offspring are often
exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.
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Their fathers, after all,
are inessential."
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Just when capitalism declared its global victory and the "end of history" in 1991,
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the internet was made available
to the general public as World Wide Web.
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That year Judy Wajcman wrote
"Feminism confronts technology"
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and VNS Matrix,
the first cyberfeminist collective was founded
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who published "a cyberfeminist manifesto
for the 21st century" that claimed:
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"we are the virus of the new world disorder
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rupturing the symbolic from within
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saboteurs of big daddy mainframe
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the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix
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the VNS MATRIX
terminators of the moral codes
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mercenaries of slime"
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Around the same time
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Sandy Stone wrote "Will the real
body please stand up?"
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emphasizing the realness of "virtual reality"
and how the internet facilitates
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crossing over borders of gender
and other socially structured identities.
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She says: "My interest in cyberspace
is primarily about communities
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and how they work."
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Cyberfeminist communities were blooming on the web with radical ideas
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but websites were still static
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and internet users were less than 0.5% of the world population until 1995,
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when Bill Gates was already the richest person on the world.
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Carmen Hermosillo fue una de las primeras adeptas de las comunidades del ciberespacio
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"Está de moda sugerir" escribió
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"que el ciberespacio es un tipo de isla de los benditos
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donde la gente es libre de expresar y entregarse a su individualidad.
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Esto no es cierto.
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He visto mucha gente exponer
sus emociones, sus entrañas online
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y yo misme lo hice hasta que vi me había mercantilizado a mi misme."
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At the beginning
of the new millennium
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with 5% of the world population connected
to the net, Darcy DiNucci introduced
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the Web 2.0:
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"The Web will be understood
not as screenfuls of text and graphics but
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as a transport mechanism, the ether
through which interactivity happens.
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It will [...] appear on your computer
screen, [...] on your TV set [...]
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your car dashboard [...] your cell phone
[...] hand-held game machines [...]
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maybe even your microwave oven."
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Ahora, con la fibra óptica conectada directamente a tu casa
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suponiendo que cuando llegue al poste de teléfono no vuelve a ser cableado,
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sino que sigue siendo fibra,
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puedes hacer cosas como descargarte una película entera en unos minutos,
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cosas de este tipo.
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Todas tus comunicaciones vendran
en formato tcp/ip,
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lo que significa que serán todas digitales, serán todas paquetes de datos
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serán todas conmutables.
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Y podrían ser televisión, radio, ordenador, teléfono y cualquier tipo de comunicación
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vendría en forma de paquetes,
paquetes tcp/ip.
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Probablemente tardará entre 10 y 20 años
a desarrollarse
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pero ya está siendo desarrollado con éxito en pruebas de mercado.
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A mi me gusta,
pero eso no quiere decir nada.
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Blogs and microblogs gradually spread among cyberfeminists
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and signalled the next era.
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Tarana Burke started Me Too
on Myspace in 2006
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but it took some time before it caught on.
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Sheryl Sandberg leaned in to become
"the Typhoid Mary of surveillance capitalism"
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first by building the business model of Google,
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then moving on to become the Chief
Operating Officer of Facebook.
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In 2021, internet penetration rate, the industry jargon for internet access,
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is at 65 percent of the world population.
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In Europe, North America and Japan it's
around 90 percent.
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To understand Donna Haraway's words
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"Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert"
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we just have to look up from our smartphones
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and see that everyone else is also looking at their smartphones.
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Even the people who still don't have internet access are ruled by the internet.
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No organism is left free from cybernetics,
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the science of command
and control through communication.
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We are all cyborgs even if we
don't want it or don't even know about it.
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“Just as political economy produced a homo economicus
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manageable in the framework
of industrial states,
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cybernetics is producing its
own humanity…
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Political economy reigned over beings by leaving them free to pursue their interest;
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cybernetics controls them by leaving them free to communicate…
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The stated ambition of cybernetics
is to manage the unforeseeable,
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and to govern the ungovernable instead of trying to destroy it.”
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As internet becomes omnipresent with smartphones and social media,
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popularity of political movements are increasingly dependent on
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their online presence and activity.
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Accordingly, feminism is growing,
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accelerated by new communication technologies.
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This is not to say feminists
are stuck online.
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From Rojava to Mexico,
we are as militant as ever.
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Transnational feminist strikes have been bringing millions of people into the streets
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and this would have been much harder to organize without the latest technology.
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On 25 November 2019, a feminist collective
from Chile, Las Tesis,
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shared their artistic protest performance
“A rapist in your path” on social media.
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Within days, the performance with its full choreography and lyrics
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was reproduced away from keyboard
by feminists all over the world.
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Feminists in Turkey were
violently detained by police for performing it,
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which prompted women members of parliament from oppositionary parties
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to perform it in the Parliament of Turkey.
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This level of embodied memeification
was unprecedented.
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With this perspective, even what is called “hashtag feminism” like #MeToo
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can’t be seen as a solely online phenomenon,
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because its causes and consequences are away from keyboard.
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In truth, it's very hard to tell the difference between online and offline
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since the spread of mobile internet.
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If the biggest problem of cyberfeminism
in the beginning, was access,
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the critical problem of contemporary cyberfeminism is control.
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Today most feminists have access
to the internet
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and rely on it heavily for feminist activism but very few among us know about
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how the technology and the political
economy behind it actually works.
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And more so since the pandemic, if you want to be active in the feminist movement
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you will probably be required to use proprietary software
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for social media, video chats, cloud storages, etc.
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You may be disqualified
from participating in assemblies
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if you refuse to use
google forms and zoom.
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You may be left out of organizations
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if you refuse to use
whatsapp, telegram and google drive.
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You're voice may not be heard
or considered relevant
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if you refuse to use instagram, twitter and youtube.
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You may be perceived as a killjoy within feminism
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if you refuse to use any of these apps
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because they're not just considered practical
but also "free".
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But these supposedly free apps are making the richest white cis men inordinately richer
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and disproportionately powerful
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(like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk,
Mark Zuckerberg, etc.)
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because they get something more valuable
than money from us.
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They get to own all the information we produce which they use against us
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with increasing accuracy for the purposes of advertising, surveillance,
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perception management and psychological warfare that aims for total domination.
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Shosana Zuboff calls this
system surveillance capitalism
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but it's worse than surveillance
and worse than capitalism.
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Alice Walker, who coined
the term "womanism" says:
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
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Every day we give our information
in return for a service marketed as free,
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without thinking that we
are giving up a power we have.
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The power we give up is used against
us and it works.
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In fact, even Alice Walker is not immune to racist propaganda from artificial intelligence
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as she unironically explains
in one of her poems,
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how she was persuaded to antisemitic conspiracy theories:
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"Where to start?
You will find
some information,
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"Where to start?
You will find
some information,
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Slanted,
unfortunately,
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By Googling.
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For a more in depth study
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I recommend starting with YouTube.
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Simply follow the trail show of
“The Talmud” as its poison winds its way
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Into our collective consciousness."
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This way of using Youtube
for reactionary endoctrination
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is called "redpilling"
among altright antifeminists,
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even the concept itself is a cisheteropatriarchal appropriation of the
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work of trans sisters
who wrote and directed the Matrix.
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If the founder of womanism
can be redpilled by youtube autoplay,
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it must not have been very hard
for companies like Cambridge Analytica
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to use the Artificial Intelligence of Facebook
to hack elections
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and raise neofascism around the world.
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La psicografía.
Es un conocimiento de tu personalidad.
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Porque es la personalidad la que dirige el comportamiento
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y el comportamiento obviamente influye como votas.
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To date, many studies prove that
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the artificial intelligences of big corporations are classist, racist and sexist,
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there's even documentaries about it on Netflix.
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At the same time they also fuel reactionary trends within feminism, like transphobia
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and whorephobia because social
media algorithms
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consider inflammatory speech to be
engaging, therefore profitable.
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Our attention spans are colonized and exploited by this new political economy.
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This can’t go without questioning
by feminists
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or anyone who positions themselves against systems of domination.
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Audre Lorde's powerful essay
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"The master’s tools will never
dismantle the master’s house"
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about racism within the feminist movement, can also be applied
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to other forms of intersecting oppressions that we have internalized,
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like our relationship with technology.
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Interestingly, Xenofeminist Lucca Fraser had challenged what Lorde said
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by claiming that "the masters tools
can indeed dismantle the master’s house
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because they can be hacked."
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I disagree with Fraser’s reversal
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because while you may well hack the master’s tools,
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they could still belong to and benefit
the master.
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"Let's acknowledge that the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house.
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The very technologies that was
reason to dream
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of new forms of political empowerment
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has turned out to be the means of surveillance and control for everybody."
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Even the first social use of telephone was a hack by housewives
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as mentioned by Judy Wajcman.
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We have hacked the tools of the master
to near perfection
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but it seems like we are hacking in
the dark without consciousness.
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We are winning battles but losing the war.
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As Audre Lorde said:
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"They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game,
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but they will never enable us
to bring about genuine change."
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To bring about genuine change and realize the revolutionary potential of hacking
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we have to demystify what hacking means.

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Part 3:
Hacker feminism at the intersection
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In Hacker Women, Sollfrank writes:
"even within the cyberfeminist community,
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there are only a few computer
professionals and fewer nerds.
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Currently most women seem to prefer to
undertake politically engaged work
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in a purely cultural environment
and on a non-technological level.
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Women are not actively influencing
the development of hard- and software,
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and therefore are surrendering any chance to share the related power."
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That power grew to form the new dominant mode of production and took over the world,
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so ignoring it is impossible but imagining
a different world seems almost equally hard.
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Nobody talks about cyberfeminism anymore because thats just feminism now,
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Cyberspace is enmeshed with the earth
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and the techno utopianism of the 1990s
devolved into a full blown dystopia.
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Today asking someone to quit vectoralist media can be absurdly presumptuous,
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like asking a peasant to quit the feudal land or a proletarian to quit the capitalist factory.
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Class domination means
we really don't have a choice.
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To survive we are forced
to carry smartphones
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that either run on iOS (owned by Apple)
or Android (owned by Google)
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get jobs by signing up to sites like
Linked In (owned by Microsoft)
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or Amazon Mechanical Turk
or Uber (hosted on Amazon).
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To keep our jobs we are forced to sign in to apps like Whatsapp (owned by Facebook)
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and Zoom (hosted on Amazon).
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We have to be liked on Instagram (owned by Facebook) or Github (owned by Microsoft)
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before we can sell
the fruits of our labor.
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As April Glaser puts it: "Deleting Facebook is a privilege."
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However, since our personal data is
the source of vectoralist political power,
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feminist slogan "the personal is political" becomes even more meaningful & important.
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We have to make it clear
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that when we invite someone to
our feminist whatsapp group
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and our google drive to organize our
new hashtag campaign,
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we are inviting them
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to do voluntary work that benefits
the richest white cis men in the world
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like Larry Page,
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
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When we invite someone
to our feminist Zoom assembly,
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we are inviting them to use services
of a company
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that infringes the freedom of assembly to Uighur and Palestinian people
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on the servers of a corporation that provides Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition
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to the racist police force of the country with the highest prison population in the world.
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There is no good reason for using
vectoralist apps
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to organize ourselves and our emancipatory
struggles,
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because there are free open source alternatives
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for almost every popular vectoralist software
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and there is a federation of decentralized
public servers
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for free open source social media that we can use right now.
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We can use IRC, Jabber, Matrix etc. instead of Whatsapp,
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Nextcloud instead of Drive,
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Mastodon instead of
Twitter and Meet Jitsi instead of Zoom.
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These FOSS apps are not just as good,
but they are better,
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not just ethically and politically
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but also because they dont try to mess with
our psychology through algorithms
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and thats why they need much less resources, which is better for the earth.
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As intersectional feminists we should be aware that we are all cyborg hackers
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and we have different response-abilities
depending on our situatedness.
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Intersectional feminism upgraded with
hacker class consciousness can and should
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be an entry point for people to learn
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how vectoralism intersects with
all forms of oppression
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and which tools to use for
hacking them in a revolutionary way.
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To begin with, we should differentiate
between organization and outreach.
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For the purposes of organization
and for personal/political communication,
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we should use free and open source
software, not just because it's more secure
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but also for liberating ourselves from vectoralist exploitation
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and empowering each other.
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For outreach it might still make sense
to use vectoralist platforms
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until most of the population is not there anymore
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but doing this successfully already requires a well organized hack,
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otherwise we would be just blocked like Signal ads were blocked by Facebook.
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On a personal level, we can start
by migrating to foss operating systems
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installing peer to peer and darknet apps,
getting a nextcloud, a matrix, a mastodon
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and even hosting our own servers,
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but we won't get much use of these if we don't have a community there.
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Also the learning curve is much lower
when it's approached collectively.
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In the end,
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the greater part of the work is convincing our communities to come along with us.
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There is no technical solution
to a social problem.
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For any of these FOSS to start genuine change, we need to reach a critical mass
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with network effect.
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To host and facilitate
a digital mass migration,
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existing infrastructures
wouldn't be enough,
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we would need to
invest in decentralized infrastructure
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and disperse the cloud
by reclaiming our data.
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To spread this idea
and turn it into reality,
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we can organize
feminist hacker literacy campaigns,
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not just for coding
but for everything we need
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to liberate and maintain our cyborg lives,
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like system administration, telecom engineering, hardware assembly and repair,
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and most importantly, wetware, which is
the organic part of our cyborg bodies.
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The intersection of feminist and hacker politics goes back to witches
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who were hunted
for having the power of knowledge
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detrimental to capitalist racist cisheteropatriarchy.
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Half century ago, when abortion
was illegal in the United States,
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underground Jane Collective reappropriated the knowledge of performing abortions,
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to train and maintain a feminist network of illegal practitioners.
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In 2001,
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Gender Changers Academy started doing feminist hack workshops in Amsterdam
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which then toured cities in different countries
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under the name Eclectic Tech Carnival.
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In 2014, Feminist Principles of the Internet
were drafted in Malaysia,
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meanwhile in Catalonia, TransHackFeminist convergence featured workshops
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ranging from do-it-yourself
gynecology to creating feminist servers.
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Feminist principles of the internet
on feministinternet.org
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is a good starting point for imagining
a feminist internet
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but as it says on the Anarchaserver:
"A feminist internet also requires
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self-managed and autonomous
feminist servers."
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"This is about regaining control
and gaining autonomy
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in the access and management
of our data and collective memories.
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It is also about being able
to have feminist mailing lists,
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pads, wikis, content management systems,
social networks
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and any other online services managed
by feminist tech collectives.
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It is also of course
about continuing to argue that
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social justice in technologically driven
environments
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needs a more gender and culturally
diverse presence in general."
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Today there are a few feminist hacklabs and feminist servers
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that are doing a very important job by setting paradigms and leading by example.
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What we need urgently is
the popularization of these practices
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by sharing material, technical
and emotional resources.
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To have our own infrastructure,
we have to make a collective decision
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to invest in it.
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In the article "Feminist autonomous infrastructure: from zombies to ninjas"
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it explains how volunteering risks invisibilizing labor
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and donation campaigns are not enough
to sustain feminist infrastructure projects.
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The article titled "Feminists are building
their own technology to organise
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but where are funders?" explains how
a feminist server project ceased to exist
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because it lacked proper funding.
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"The internet, like
the streets, needs to be reclaimed.
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We can build new spaces of engagement, organizing and transformation
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but in order to achieve this,
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we need funding that can ensure
those building the feminist internet
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that they can make decisions
over where their knowledge goes."
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A server can cost less
than the cheapest smartphone
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or cheaper
if you use a second hand computer
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but we also need the funding
to spread the idea
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and give people the time and space
to learn, exercise and develop.
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In cities like Barcelona where
every neighborhood have feminist groups,
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every neighborhood can have a feminist
hacklab with servers that federate.
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For neighborhoods that don't
have a secure physical space,
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bigger feminist organizations like Ca La Dona
can share VPS and other services.
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Every feminist group should have access
to feminist servers,
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if they're too small or ephemeral and can't afford to have their own,
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they should be able to find help from other feminist collectives that share services.
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Bigger feminist organizations in
more privileged parts of the world should
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also have programs to share services with
the feminists from rest of the world.
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Feminist infrastructure and servers
should be seen as a necessity,
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especially for separatist feminist groups.
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We can't have truly no-mixto spaces
on vectoralist platforms, because there
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even our close groups and personal
messages are exploited by white cis men.
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On the other hand,
imagine an internet without cis men at all,
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and believe that
we can create it together.
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To realize that dream we don't need
a new technology, we need a new culture.
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Hacker class consciousness must be a part of our intersectional feminist consciousness.
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We can update our
consciousness raising practices
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by including conversations about how vectoralism effects us personally
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and sharing the knowledge of
how to hack it for good
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with care
and not condescension.
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We can throw crypto install parties
combined with tupperware/sex parties
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where we demonstrate
signal blocking pouches, tails sticks,
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single board computers,
linux phones, etc.
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When we do these parties
at each others homes,
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we can help set up home servers and labs.
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We can make signal blocking
purses for smart devices fashionable.
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Take that textile back
from military machis.
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If we do it on our own
we could be singled out,
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so we should do it as a movement
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and exercise it as our right
to not be accessible 24/7.
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Our culture should value a repairable
cheap phone with killswitches
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more than
the latest most expensive phone
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that doesn't allow a battery removal
without breaking the warranty.
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Meanwhile, we can't forget
where the lithium, koltan
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and everthing else
that goes into a computer comes from,
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the people who mine it, carry it, process
it, assemble it.
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We must interfere with technology at
every layer
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from internet service provisions
to supply-production chains
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to stop reproducing injustice
and destroying our planet.
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To be able to take good care
of each other and the earth,
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we must cultivate our response-abilities
and radically change our culture.
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The future will be feminist
or there won’t be future!