Words We Inherit, Words We Invent
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Reclaiming language as a feminist pracice
- How are feminist values encoded—or silenced—through language and publishing formats?
- How do feminist movements use language to resist, redefine, or reclaim power?
- How are definitions and glossaries sites of epistemic control — and how can they be reclaimed for feminist ends? Who defines meaning, and who gets to speak?
- How can a glossary be used as a feminist publishing method?
- How are certain voices marginalized or excluded from meaning-making? What happens if definitions are open to multiple interpretations, narratives, or contradictions?
- Can glossaries be performative, open-ended, or generative rather than fixed? What happens if definitions are open to multiple interpretations, narratives, or contradictions?
- How are certain voices marginalized or excluded from meaning-making? What happens if definitions are open to multiple interpretations, narratives, or contradictions?
- – Make my own feminist glossary – with the possibility for people to contribute to it in order to hear voices that mostly stay unheard.
- Why make it online and with that global? Different people all around the world make different experiences and in order to practice intersectionality it is important to also hear voices which widen your understanding of what it means to behave feministic in this day and age.
- A glossary is traditionally linear, authoritative, closed. But what if it was open-ended, networked, affective, or contradictory — like lived experience? Can definitions reflect lived experience, not just academic consensus? What happens to a glossary if we abandon objectivity and embrace subjectivity?
- Who is it for and how should they feel using it?
looks
- – have a site for each letter and then a sub-site for each word.
- – there is a submit button so people can contribute – how do I prevent spamming and not welcoming contributions? – Make a code of conduct/manifesto/rules for this project. – add positionality statement. (what terms or frameworks do I reject, and why?)
- – Do I moderate it? i should.
- – Make it look like a mindmap. everything is interlinked, you can jump from one definition to another. – annotate where definitions come from: lived experience, literature, oral history, protest signs, etc.
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