Some Feminist Principles/Methods to Work By

(a cheat sheet)

Alexandra Juhasz, Fall 2011

Make the (Internet) culture we want to live in

VALUES

• Access to critical thinking and media production within broader culture
• With a premium on literacy and democracy
• In a place where process, visibility, voice, and community dominate

METHODS

• Commitment to Collectivity and Collaboration over individual
• Produce structure with Transparency
• Transparency in structure and process
• Focus on processes like pedagogy, writing, structure=self-reflexivity=
• Critique in the forms themselves
• Anchor activity in lived places and experience
• Identify Positionality: one’s individual and shared orientation
• Dismantle Binaries, Honor Intersectionality
• Experiences, voices, representation of women, people of color, queers are a given, a priority, are a priori
• Value Ordinary People over corporate power

USERS

• Agency: for viewer/user
• Heightened demands on user/viewer
• Shared vocabulary: political and artistic
• Shared authoring
• Through-lines of thought, building conversations

GOALS

• Move Internet practices from Commenting to Connection
• Move Internet practices from Reception to Use
• Move Internet practices from Production to Collaboration
• Link cyber space and real world