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Chatbot group update!
While we are currently in this lock-down scenario we wanted to restart our coding group, however, we understand that finding the time to “code” might seem a bit too much right now (it certainly feels that way for us). We agreed with Suze to pause the coding workshops in their […]

Data Feminism (MIT) Reading Group (online, USA)
Registration link: bit.ly/DataFemRead + https://bookbook.pubpub.org/data-feminism (for chapters) Thinking of digging into Data Feminism? Craving social contact in the time of COVID-19? Join us Fridays at noon, starting April 17th, for the Data Feminism Reading Group. Each week for nine weeks, Catherine and Lauren will present some highlights from a single chapter of Data Feminism, followed by […]
A feminist chat bot? by Rachel Thomson (with FACT///. and Suze Shardlow
http://reanimatingdata.co.uk/uncategorized/a-feminist-chat-bot/
FACT///.mapping feminist coding practices symposium
***DIY Feminism and Creating Platforms*** When we started the network we were keen to develop a manifesto or guiding principles, but we didn’t want to just declare them, instead, we wanted to create platforms from which we could discuss and map out these principles, principles that we thought would reflect […]

Coming soon! FACT///.mapping feminists coding practices symposium
Full details of the programme, including speakers bio and abstracts, can be found here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/factmapping-feminists-coding-practices-symposium-tickets-73970980193

FACT///.reading group: Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family 2019
Our next FACT///.reading for this Friday (15 November), 3:30pm-5-30pm, ACCA Café, University of Sussex ‘Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family’ (2019) Lewis [chapter 1 – intro + chapter 7 Amniotechnics]

Internet Archive FACT///.website 2018-19 new site in-progress
‘Building site in progress’ in the meantime, you can visit our archived site on the Internet Archive, and if you have any questions or queries, please contact sharon.webb@sussex.ac.uk or c.chevalier@sussex.ac.uk. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter Details and registration for our CHASE funded symposium can be found […]

FACT///.reading group: rethinking cyberfeminism(s): race, gender, and embodiment 2009
Our next FACT///.reading for this Friday (11 October), 3:30pm-5-30pm, ACCA Café, University of Sussex : ‘Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment’ (2009) Jessie Daniels https://muse.jhu.edu/article/266600?fbclid=IwAR30exCZHay2PSftGsOwPDafW1iDs018xUC8-njaMKxcfatC-JPsrVB4dR4

FACT///.feminist approaches to computational technology: read, write, code
FACT///.network is delighted to announced that our proposal for ‘Feminist Approaches to Computational Technology: Read, Write, Code’ has been approved by the CHASE Cohort Development Fund. We proposed a cross disciplinary programme of events to include a one-day symposium with invited speakers, including PhD students from the CHASE network, followed […]

FACT///.forum review
FACT///.forum @Sussex Humanities Lab, March 2019 In March 2019, we held our first FACT Network event. FACT, Feminist Approaches to Computational Technology, was born from a desire to form, and support, a community around issues related to representation, diversity and inclusion within the broad area of computational practices and thinking. […]

FACT///. forum19
A one-day forum to inform the creation of a feminist, non-binary, trans-inclusive network of individuals that work/research/think/make with/in/about computational technology. The outcomes and findings of the forum will directly impact the nature and shape of such a space which is designed to promote and support a feminist approached to computational […]

reading group: materialism, work and care
In advance of Helen Thornham’s visit to Sussex later in March, we thought this might be a good opportunity to discuss a chapter from her newly published book: Gender and Digital Culture: Between Irreconcilability and the Datalogical. We will be reading Chapter 4: ‘Being Known: Autom-data-ed bodies, maternal subjectivity’. pp. […]