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alex wrote a new post, Feminist Online Spaces, Spring 2019: Some Troubles with Internet Time 3 years, 10 months ago
In Spring 2019, I re-booted my course, Feminist Online Spaces (and hence this site that holds it among other things). This time I taught it with Masters students in Liberal Studies (MALS) at the CUNY Graduate […]
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alex wrote a new post, Can Trans People Police Themselves? Survey Says “Maybe?” by VJ 3 years, 10 months ago
The subreddit “r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns” is billed as, “Trans people making fun of themselves, others, and the situations they find themselves in with memes, gifs, and videos”. The site has guidelines that are set […]
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alex wrote a new post, SIM-ULATING FEMINIST COMMUNITY by AW 3 years, 10 months ago
I was aware pretty early on in MALS 72200, Contemporary Feminism, that my research site, EA’s The Sims forum, would not embody a working definition of a feminist online space. It is inherently disqualified b […]
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alex wrote a new post, AO3 as a [Black, Queer] Feminist Space by JC 3 years, 10 months ago
Created specifically as a non-corporate space by queer women, Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a
site for fans to create, share, and preserve their transformative works. These works, which are
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alex wrote a new post, From Virtual Spaces Back to the Real Life?: X-Reality and Conclusions by DVS 3 years, 10 months ago
Through the course of the semester in MALS 72200: Contemporary Feminist Thought at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, we have debated and analyzed what are safe, democratic, feminist online spaces […]
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alex wrote a new post, Democratic Space and Feminist Perspectives of the Music Industry by TC 3 years, 10 months ago
In attempting to identify the essential components of an x-reality, democratic, feminist of color space for MALS 72700, I reflected on the findings of my initial evaluation of my chosen online space, […]
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alex wrote a new post, Online Feminist Space Ethnography, r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns by VJ 3 years, 11 months ago
For my ethnography of the online space r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, I chose to take a somewhat indirect approach. Instead of posting questions and engaging directly with users for the data collection portion, I instead […]
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alex wrote a new post, online ethnography of the Okayplayer message boards by TC 3 years, 11 months ago
In completing my online ethnography of the Okayplayer message boards I sought to answer two research questions which came from my earlier interaction with users on the site: Why do you (the OKP user) feel feminist […]
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alex wrote a new post, Unruly Body Ethnography by DV 3 years, 11 months ago
For this week’s ethnographic project for MALS 72200: Contemporary Feminist Thought, the methodology used was of direct participation on my Medium site (by posting open public stories) as well as interviewing – or […]
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alex wrote a new post, Unruly Bodies as Online Feminist Intersectional Space by DVS 3 years, 12 months ago
Finding a feminist, safe space online that engages with issues such as class, gender, and the envision of the body can be hard to get particularly if, as users, we do not always feel welcomed or comfortable in […]
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alex wrote a new post, Is AO3 a Feminist Space? by jgc_72200 4 years ago
Is AO3 feminist?
Yes, based on users:
– Space for communities to form
– Space for users to create their own areas/sections
– Space for non-capitalistic creation
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alex wrote a new post, Sims forum, feminist of color space? incentivizing participation and intentionality by AW 4 years ago
I started my exploration on the official Sims forum (I’ll likely be interchanging the full name with TSF for space/brevity), and initially found the general tone of the boards pretty sterile: most of the d […]
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alex wrote a new post, okayplayer.com: feminist have left or are lurking by TC 4 years ago
I believe that the okayplayer.com boards are not a feminist of color space. Members of the boards seem to feel that there was a time in the recent past when more feminist discussions were taking place, but now […]
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alex wrote a new post, Unruly Bodies: Safe Space Resource by DVS 4 years ago
After reconsidering my initial choice, I decided to go with Medium’s online magazine “Unruly Bodies,” created and edited by Roxanne Gay for my course work for MALS 72200 Contemporary Feminist Thought. In it, diffe […]
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alex wrote a new post, Okayplayer by TC 4 years ago
Following our discussion in class (Contemporary Feminist Theories, MALS 72200) around around the NYT report on Ryan Adams I had gone to the reddit Indie music page (r/indieheads) to gauge some of the reaction and […]
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alex wrote a new post, Finding an Online Space by AW 4 years ago
My first choice of a potential feminist online space was the digital network/social media presence for the podcast Thirst Aid Kit. I felt that this site would serve as a valuable exploration of Black women […]
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alex wrote a new post, Tour of Archive of Our Own, JC for MALS 72200 4 years ago
The site I chose is Archive of Our Own (AO3) (http://www.archiveofourown.org), which is a branch of the non-profit Organization of Transformative Works (OTW) (http://organizationoftransformativeworks.org). This […]
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Simone Bouyer posted an update 5 years, 6 months ago
Updating the site to meet 2017 protocols and formats.
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Simone Bouyer's profile was updated 5 years, 6 months ago
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