Site-Wide Activity

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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
typically pieces of […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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
– Space for sharing
– Inclusion of own […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]