MDSB13 - Feminist Media Studies Quotes

Bell Hooks - Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, 28

"Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform in a

meaningful way all our lives. Most importantly, feminism is neither a lifestyle nor a ready-made identity or role one can step into."

Hill Collins and Bilge - What Is Intersectionality? 1

"Intersectionality investigates how intersecting power relations influence social relations across diverse societies as well as individual experiences in everyday life. As an analytic tool, intersectionality views categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, class, nation, ability, ethnicity, and age - among others - as interrelated and mutually shaping one another. Intersectionality is a way of understanding and explaining complexity in the world, in people, and in human experiences."

Hill Collins and Bilge - What Is Intersectionality? 21-23

Intersectionality

Six core ideas:

1. social inequality

2. intersecting power relations

3. social context

4. relationality

5. complexity

6. social justice

Hill Collins and Bilge - What Is Intersectionality?

"While intersectionality as a form of critical inquiry can occur anywhere, colleges and universities became important venues for disseminating intersectionality through scholarship, teaching, conferences, grant proposals, policy reports, and literary and creative works."

Hill Collins and Bilge - What Is Intersectionality? 39

"When used as a form of critical praxis, intersectionality refers to the ways in which people, either as individuals or as part of groups, produce, draw upon, or apply intersectional frameworks in their daily lives. In their families and jobs, as institutional actors within public schools, colleges and universities, and religious

organizations, and as community leaders and grassroots organizers, everyday citizens draw upon intersectionality's ideas to guide their practice."

Crenshaw et al - Blackness at the Intersection

"By seriously engaging with the standpoints of Black women, intersectionality has

allowed us to see the way that racialized power operates through the intersections of

different 'identities' in the system. Rather than locate identity politics within those

oppressed by the system, intersectionality gives us the tools to understand that all politics is about identity; mobilizing resistance or oppression through a given subject position."

Crenshaw et al., - Blackness at the Intersection

"Black feminism provided the standpoint through which to illuminate oppression, and it

was Critical Race Theory (CRT) that provided the framework to understand systems of

discrimination."

Crenshaw et al. - Blackness at the Intersection

"Essential to CRT is the idea that racism is a permanent feature of society, in opposition to the classical liberal approach that sees the problem as something on the margins that can be reformed out of society. . . . One of the key analyses from CRT is the notion that appeals to colour-blindness are in fact a tool to continue to maintain racial oppression."

Sturken and Cartwright - Practices of Looking, 425

"Feeling or emotion, and the expression of feeling or emotion through the face, body, voice, or another medium such as captioning, artwork, or writing. In affect theory, affect refers to the forces, largely unconscious, that move us toward emotion and feelings in relation to the body"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 57

"When you are alienated by virtue of how you are affected, you are an affect alien.

A feminist killjoy is an affect alien. We are not made happy by the right things."

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 15-16

"Citation is feminist memory. Citation is how we acknowledge our debt to those

who came before; those who helped us find our way...Citations can be feminist

bricks: they are the materials through which, from which, we create our dwellings"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 5

"Where we find feminism matters; from whom we find feminism matters."

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 14

"I think of feminism as a building project: if our texts are worlds, they need to be made out of feminist materials"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 255

"Feminism is praxis. We enact the world we are aiming for; nothing less will do"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 14-15

"No feminism worthy of its name would use the sexist idea 'women born women' to

create the edges of feminist community, to render trans women into 'not women,' or

'not born women,' or into men. No one is born a woman; it is an assignment (not just a

sign, but also a task or an imperative, as I discuss in part I) that can shape us; make us;

and break us"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, (5)

"Feminism will be intersectional 'or it will be bullshit,' to borrow from the eloquence of

Flavia Dzodan"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 2

"To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 11

"To become a feminist is to stay a student. This is why: the figures of the feminist

killjoy and the willful subject are studious."

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 38

"practicing feminism is about developing our feminist tendencies (becoming the kind of person who would be willing to speak out about sexism and

racism)"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 32

"I think this is a promise: once you become a person who notices sexism and racism, it is hard to unbecome that person"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 34

"Feminist and antiracist consciousness involves not just finding the words, but through the words, how they point, realizing how violence is directed: violence is directed toward some bodies more than others. To give a problem a name can change not only how we register an event but whether we register an event."

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 37,

"When you expose a problem you pose a problem"

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 37

"the feminist killjoy begins her life as an antifeminist figure: we are retooling her for our own purpose."

Sarah Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life, 41

Claudia (narrator of The Bluest Eye) is an example of "a black feminist killjoy: she dismembers...the white baby doll; she uses the gift to generate counterknowledge"

Safiya Noble (guest) Lori Lizarraga (host) - How Does a Computer Discriminate?, 10

"algorithmic oppression is not just a glitch in the system but, rather, is fundamental to the operating system of the web"

Safiya Noble (guest) Lori Lizarraga (host) - How Does a Computer Discriminate?, 1

"I believe that artificial intelligence will become a major human rights issue in the

twenty-first century"

Safiya Noble (guest) Lori Lizarraga (host) - How Does a Computer Discriminate?, 13

Because "algorithms are shifting social relations in many ways," they "should be

regulated with more impactful public policy"

Safiya Noble (guest) Lori Lizarraga (host) - How Does a Computer Discriminate?, 14

"We have to ask what is lost, who is harmed, and what should be forgotten with the

embrace of artificial intelligence in decision making. It is of no collective social benefit to organize information resources on the web through processes that solidify inequality and marginalization"

Zeynep Tufekci (p.207)

algorithms are "computational agents that are not alive, but that act with agency in the world"

Safiya Noble

algorithms are not "truth machines"

Starblanket and Green - Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 2

"Indigenous feminism troubles the imposition and

manifestation of racialized and gendered structures of

power in colonial and Indigenous contexts, taking up and informing resistance to colonialism, racism, and sexism"

Scheper, 21

"Zines—typically associated with small, hand-made, analog, low-cost, low-circulation

publications—are frequently grounded in fandoms or networks organized around shared taste affinities, social identities, political imperatives, or quirky pleasures"

Gill - Gender, p. 78

"Queer theory has also been influential in offering alternative readings of cultural products, and in 'queering' contemporary media"

Karen Tongson - Queer, 157

"'Queer media' also names a set of practices and methods for interpreting media that may or may not make themselves available to queer interpretation, queer worlds, and queer people"

Karen Tongson - Queer, 160

"Queer media have meant, and continue to mean to me, the sort of titillated, interpellated, yet ultimately ambivalent viewing practices, that re-enliven the reparative, and disidentificatory practices of queer fantasy— the kind of imagining that carries the potential for queer world making."

T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault - Heavy Processing: Needing IT (more than a feeling), 29

"Researchers need to account for our relationships with our research materials, as well as the relationships within which those materials matter. These are the information technologies (IT) we need"

T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault - TFQ: A Note on Terminology, xvii

"Throughout this book we use the conjunction 'Trans- Feminist and Queer' (TFQ). The dash and the space after it are intentional, indicating that

each term puts pressure on, modifies, and is in critical combination with each other term."

T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault - Heavy Processing: Needing IT (more than a feeling) 49

"consent can be defined by the FRIES principles, articulated by Planned Parenthood: Freely Given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, and Specific.

Research projects and online research environments need to be 'built with consent at their core, and [need to] support the self-determination of

people who use and are affected by these technologies'"