“WHOOPS I AM A LADY ON THE INTERNET”: Digital Feminist Counter-Publics

Authors

  • Clare Mulcahy
  • Hannah McGregor
  • Marcelle Kosman

Keywords:

Digital counterpublics, feminist counterpublics, transgender, disability, anti-racism, activism, Internet

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Author Biographies

Clare Mulcahy

Clare Mulcahy is a recent graduate of the English and Film Studies doctoral program at University of Alberta, and is a full-time instructor at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on African American women journalists' negotiations of professional legitimacy through their turn of the century writing in the African American press.

Hannah McGregor

Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, where her research and teaching focus on the histories and futures of print and digital media in Canada. She is the co-creator of Witch, Please, a feminist podcast on the Harry Potter world, and the creator of the podcast Secret Feminist Agenda.

Marcelle Kosman

Marcelle Kosman is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on early Canadian women's science fiction and fantasy writing and questions of canonical exclusion. She is also the co-creator of Witch, Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world.

References

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Haraway, Donna. 2000 [1984]. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” In The Cybercultures Reader, edited by David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, 291-324. London, UK: Routledge.

Kendzior, Sarah. 2014. “On Being a Thing.” sarahkendzior.com, June 7. https://sarahkendzior.com/2014/06/07/on-being-a-thing/.

Koul, Scaachi. 2017. One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada.

Warner, Michael. 2005. Publics and Counterpublics. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books.

West, Lindy. 2016. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman. New York, NY: Hachette.

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Published

2017-12-01

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 2 (2017): Affecting Feminist Literary & Cultural Production & WHOOPS I AM A LADY ON THE INTERNET: Digital Feminist Counter-Publics

Section

38.2- “WHOOPS I AM A LADY ON THE INTERNET”: Digital Feminist Counter-Publics

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