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Feminists Hacking the System(s): Creation, Liberation, and Action
Recently, I joined the University of Sussex’s School of Media, Arts and Humanities as a research fellow. I’m pleased to be affiliated with FACT/// Network, and last week, in this capacity, I had the opportunity to attend the Intersections, Feminism, Technology & Digital Humanities (IFTe) network’s inaugural series, “Feminists Hacking […]
FACT///.reading group | Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture | Sadie Plant | 1998
July 3, 4:00-5:30pm | 1st and last six sections [12 sections] or the entire book | Zoom | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/factreading-group-tickets-89759335589
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 […]
FACT///.reading group| Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code | Ruha Benjamin | 2019
May 29, 4:30-6:00pm |Introduction and chapter 5 | Zoom | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/factreading-group-tickets-89759335589
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///.Coding & Reanimnating Data (Python & Javascript) with Suze Sharlow 2020
Suze Shardlow (https://suzeshardlow.com/), co-director of Women Who Code London (https://www.womenwhocode.com/london), will lead FACT///.coding’s first workshop series of 2020. Over the course of three sessions, we will work together to complete a project whilst learning and applying the fundamentals of both the Python and JavaScript programming languages. Each session will build […]
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///.READING GROUP AUTUMN 2019, programme published
For our next reading group, check our eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/factreading-group-tickets-89759335589?fbclid=IwAR1lpBU_d8FfOvyMfDbVdJ2FjefXChjm4C9aH8Nue9-KqQuzBin_TZFithQ
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///. 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. […]
