https://tantemalkah.at/2025/feminist-it-exchange
About feminism:
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
And who it is for:
Feminism is for everybody.
Rosser, Sue V. 2001. “Are There Feminist Methodologies Appropriate for the Natural Sciences and Do They Make a Difference?” In The Gender and Science Reader, edited by Muriel Lederman and Ingrid Bartsch, 123–44. Routledge.
There are a lot of feminisms out there, e.g. liberal feminism, marxist-feminism, socialist feminism and African-American feminism, essentialist feminism, existentialist feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, radical feminism, lesbian separatism, etc. but the important point is:
"all feminist theory posits gender as a significant characteristic that interacts with other characteristics, such as race and class, to structure relationships between individuals, within groups, and within society as a whole. However, using the lens of gender to view the world results in diverse images or theories" (Rosser 2001, p. 126)
Evans, Claire Lisa. 2018. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. New York, New York: Portfolio/ Penguin.
“Female mental labor was the original information technology, and women elevated the rudimentary operation of computing
machines into an art called programming. They gave language to the box.” (p.3)
“Computer science has always marginalized people that are interested in users“ (Cathy Marshall, interviewed by the author, p.165)
“We had this big raging debate about: Is the Internet about information or is it about community? And I’m looking at this
whole argument, going, duh. Both. At a certain level of intensity in an either/or argument, the fact that it has reached
that intensity is the indicator that the right answer is and.” (Naomi Pearce, interviewed by the author, p. 208)