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* [https://labekka.red/licencia-f2f/ Licencia Feminista de Producción de Pares] | * [https://labekka.red/licencia-f2f/ Licencia Feminista de Producción de Pares] | ||
== | == Resources about Feminist Infrastructure == | ||
* 2023: [https://tube.futuretic.fr/w/pB6NatJJasPA7e9QeUdkhv Trajectoires des hacklabs, biolabs, fablabs féministes en France] Une table ronde modérée par spideralex avec Le reset (Anne), Hackstub / collectif cyberféministe Hacqueen (Mj, Cécile), Portes logiques (Laure), BIB transféministe (K2, Calam, Mare), FluidSpace (Chloé, Lorca, Célia), La fun (Catherine) et Peggy Supergeante (Samedies femmes et logiciels libres) | |||
* 2022: [https://archive.org/details/desgranando-la-alianza-entre-capitalismo-patriarcado-y-tecnologia Desgranando La Alianza Entre Capitalismo, Patriarcado Y Tecnología. Diálogo con Marta Peirano, Margarita Padilla y Spideralex sobre como el sistema capitalista, colonial y patriarcal se entrecruza e impacta en Internet.La charla de spideralex versa sobre lo que es infraestructura feminista y presenta varios ejemplos] | |||
* 2022: [https://mailchi.mp/7890799593f1/podcast-redes-y-resistencias-una-serie-pdcast-sobre-alternativas-feministas-para-la-justicia-digital-16661585 Redes y resistencias: Una serie pódcast sobre alternativas comunitarias y feministas para la justicia digital. Esta serie de pódcast se pone a disposición de América Latina] | |||
Community infrastructure and feminist infrastructure share common points as well as some of the stresses that affect them. We believe that both are based on processes | * 2022: [https://zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org/thf2022 Website of the TransHackFeminist Convergence on Feminist Infrastructure with around 30 documented nodes on different types of feminfra] | ||
* 2022: [https://firn.genderit.org/research/encounters-coffees-and-conflicts-reflections-action-research-feminist-autonomous-network Encounters, coffees and conflicts: Reflections from action-research on a feminist autonomous network] | |||
* 2022: [https://vimeo.com/657450798 Rede Comunitária - QUILOMBO RIBEIRÃO GRANDE TERRA SECA] | |||
* 2022: [https://apria.artez.nl/issue/feminist-by-design/ Feminist by Design] With contributions from Nyx McLean, Nadege, Débora Prado, Aayush Rathi, Horacio F. Sívori, Akash Sheshadri, Ambika Tandon, Bruna Zanolli and Bruno Zilli. Edited by Mariana Fossatti, Tigist Shewarega Hussen and Namita Aavriti Malhotra, and conceptualised with Nishant Shah professor of Aesthetics and Cultures of Technologies at ArtEZ University of the Arts. The editorial team would like to thank all the authors and peer reviewers for their time and efforts on behalf of this special issue on Feminist by Design. [https://apria.artez.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/APRIA-Issue-4-Print-Out-V11.pdf Download the print issue here] | |||
* 2021: [https://www.digitaldefenders.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VMD_EN.pdf ENG: Models of Feminist Helplines for people facing Gender-Based Violence in Digital Spaces, Alex Haché] | |||
* 2021: [https://www.digitaldefenders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/VMD_final.pdf CAST: Modelos de líneas de Atención Feministas orientadas a las Violencias Machistas Digitales:, Alex Haché] | |||
* 2021:[https://www.digitaldefenders.org/feministhelplines/ ENG and CAST: Building feminist infrastructure: Feminist helplines for people facing gender-based violence in digital spaces, Digital Defenders Partnership] | |||
* 2021: [https://alexandria.anarchaserver.org/images/7/71/388-Texte_de_l%27article-891-1-10-20210702.pdf Revue Mouvements - FR: Soutenir ce qui nous soutient: Faire de l’infrastructure féministe WIP, Spideralex] | |||
* 2021: Revue Mouvements - [https://alexandria.anarchaserver.org/images/a/a1/380-Texte_de_l%27article-892-1-10-20210702.pdf FR: Infrafem, Ressources et répertoires féministes , Spideralex] | |||
* 2020:[https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex-underneath-and-on-the-sidelines.pdf ENG: Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction, Spideralex] | |||
* 2020:[https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex.pdf CAST:Por debajo y por los lados: sostener infraestructuras feministas con ficción especulativa, Spideralex] | |||
* 2020:[https://reporterre.net/IMG/pdf/passerelle21-online-final.pdf FR: Dossier Passerelles Ritimo - Low tech : face au tout-numérique, se réapproprier les technologies- Créer ses propres infrastructures féministes, Spideralex] | |||
* 2020: [https://alexandria.anarchaserver.org/images/f/f9/Cad_59_dossie_manica_tradu%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Infraestruturas.pdf Alex Hache, Sophie Toupin, PT: Infraestruturas autônomas feministas] | |||
* 2019: [https://archive.org/details/nos-permitimos-imaginar-web Nos permitimos imaginar: escrituras hackfeministas para otras tecnologías] Esta publicación compartimos los materiales creados por quienes participamos del Encuentro hackfeminista tecnología y afectos: ¿Cómo bosquejar políticas de la co-responsabilidad? de 2019 organizado en colaboración con Sursiendo, Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir y Tecnológico de Monterrey. | |||
* 2019: [https://genderit.org/edition/intentional-infrastructures-feminist-principles-internet-and-community-networks ENG: INTENTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES: FEMINIST PRINCIPLES OF THE INTERNET AND COMMUNITY NETWORKS, GENDER.IT] | |||
* 2019: [https://genderit.org/es/edition/desafios-para-la-inclusion-de-genero-en-las-redes-comunitarias CAST: DESAFÍOS PARA LA INCLUSIÓN DE GÉNERO EN LAS REDES COMUNITARIAS] | |||
* 2018: [https://giswatch.org/en/infrastructure/feminist-infrastructures-and-community-networks GIS Watch, ENG: Feminist infrastructures and community networks] | |||
* 2016: Article in Spanish by Anamhoo entitled [https://antivigilancia.org/es/2016/09/infraestructura-para-una-revolucion-violeta/#sdfootnote5sym Infraestructura para una revolución violeta] published in the boletin antivigilancia. | |||
* 2015: The need for feminist servers by Sophie Toupin and spideralex available in [https://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/gw2015-hache.pdf Feminist autonomous infrastructures] developed for the [https://www.giswatch.org/2015-sexual-rights-and-internet Global Information Society Watch 2015 focused on sexual rights and the internet]. | |||
== Manuals about how to set up Feminist Infrastructure Digital == | |||
* 2021: Marialab, Cartilhas de infraestruturas feministas, [https://www.marialab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cartilha-de-redes-comunitarias-FINAL.pdf Enredando territórios de cuidado: guia para aprendizado e construção de redes comunitárias] | |||
* 2021: Marialab, Cartilhas de infraestruturas feministas, [https://www.marialab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cartilha-Servidoras-1.pdf Servidoras: como colocar seu site no ar] | |||
[https://youtu.be/m8qhJfZgBpE You can watch a video presenting the launching of both ressources here] | |||
* 2019: [https://labekka.red/servidoras-feministas/ La Bekka, Cómo montar una servidora feminista con una conexión casera] | |||
* 2018: [https://lavits.org/fuxico-uma-rede-livre-feminista/?lang=pt Fuxico: uma rede livre feminista] | |||
== Principles == | |||
=== ENG: Thinking our feminist infrastructures based on stress points === | |||
Community infrastructure and feminist infrastructure share common points as well as some of the stresses that affect them. We believe that both are based on processes of doing things in a speculative way. Both can also quickly explode, burst and disappear. | |||
Infrastructure needs to be thought out and developed, and then it needs to be maintained. It is easier to develop than to maintain. Community infrastructure and infrafem must ask themselves the question of maintenance and how not to become subservient to their own infrastructure. | Infrastructure needs to be thought out and developed, and then it needs to be maintained. It is easier to develop than to maintain. Community infrastructure and infrafem must ask themselves the question of maintenance and how not to become subservient to their own infrastructure. | ||
Both involve techniques for life that allow the systemisation/establishment of certain processes that exist in ecosystems which need to be documented, communicated and disseminated to keep them alive. | |||
They tend to systematise/consolidate certain processes, absorbing techniques for life and sometimes use them to make appropriate technologies. | They tend to systematise/consolidate certain processes, absorbing techniques for life and sometimes use them to make appropriate technologies. | ||
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An infrastructure tends to (re)generate and (a)cumulate, and the alchemy that results from this stress must be periodically re-examined in order to drain or water/nourish it in time. | An infrastructure tends to (re)generate and (a)cumulate, and the alchemy that results from this stress must be periodically re-examined in order to drain or water/nourish it in time. | ||
All too often the infrafem becomes visible when it ceases to function or when it disappears, how can we establish preventive visibility policies that contribute to their maintenance so that they do not disappear? | |||
Stable infrastructures, or those in a beta stage, allow us to closely explore a paradoxical stress somewhere between ‘gaining’ autonomy and not ‘losing’ independence. | Stable infrastructures, or those in a beta stage, allow us to closely explore a paradoxical stress somewhere between ‘gaining’ autonomy and not ‘losing’ independence. | ||
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Las infraestructuras tienden a (re)generar y (a)cumular, y hay que revisar con periodicidad la alquimia que se deriva de esa tensión, para drenar o regar/alimentar a tiempo. | Las infraestructuras tienden a (re)generar y (a)cumular, y hay que revisar con periodicidad la alquimia que se deriva de esa tensión, para drenar o regar/alimentar a tiempo. | ||
Con demasiada frecuencia la infrafem solo se vuelve visible cuando deja de funcionar o cuando desaparece, ¿cómo podemos establecer políticas de visibilidad preventivas que contribuyan a su mantenimiento para que no desaparezca? | |||
Las infraestructuras estables, o las que están en beta, nos adentran en una tensión paradójica entre “ganar” en autonomía y no “perder” en independencia. | Las infraestructuras estables, o las que están en beta, nos adentran en una tensión paradójica entre “ganar” en autonomía y no “perder” en independencia. | ||
Latest revision as of 10:03, 24 June 2023
Aims THF Fanzine Feminist Infrastructure
- Create a fanzine in english and spanish about feminist infrastructure with a large perspective and a specific zoom into feminist tech infrastructure
- Create narratives, radical imaginaries, and awareness raising about the current panorama of feminist servers and feminist infrastructure
- Share fanzine in paper and digital
- Provide in various formats enabling third parties to edit and remix/translate it
- Licencia Feminista de Producción de Pares
Resources about Feminist Infrastructure
- 2023: Trajectoires des hacklabs, biolabs, fablabs féministes en France Une table ronde modérée par spideralex avec Le reset (Anne), Hackstub / collectif cyberféministe Hacqueen (Mj, Cécile), Portes logiques (Laure), BIB transféministe (K2, Calam, Mare), FluidSpace (Chloé, Lorca, Célia), La fun (Catherine) et Peggy Supergeante (Samedies femmes et logiciels libres)
- 2022: Encounters, coffees and conflicts: Reflections from action-research on a feminist autonomous network
- 2022: Feminist by Design With contributions from Nyx McLean, Nadege, Débora Prado, Aayush Rathi, Horacio F. Sívori, Akash Sheshadri, Ambika Tandon, Bruna Zanolli and Bruno Zilli. Edited by Mariana Fossatti, Tigist Shewarega Hussen and Namita Aavriti Malhotra, and conceptualised with Nishant Shah professor of Aesthetics and Cultures of Technologies at ArtEZ University of the Arts. The editorial team would like to thank all the authors and peer reviewers for their time and efforts on behalf of this special issue on Feminist by Design. Download the print issue here
- 2021: Revue Mouvements - FR: Infrafem, Ressources et répertoires féministes , Spideralex
- 2019: Nos permitimos imaginar: escrituras hackfeministas para otras tecnologías Esta publicación compartimos los materiales creados por quienes participamos del Encuentro hackfeminista tecnología y afectos: ¿Cómo bosquejar políticas de la co-responsabilidad? de 2019 organizado en colaboración con Sursiendo, Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir y Tecnológico de Monterrey.
- 2016: Article in Spanish by Anamhoo entitled Infraestructura para una revolución violeta published in the boletin antivigilancia.
- 2015: The need for feminist servers by Sophie Toupin and spideralex available in Feminist autonomous infrastructures developed for the Global Information Society Watch 2015 focused on sexual rights and the internet.
Manuals about how to set up Feminist Infrastructure Digital
- 2021: Marialab, Cartilhas de infraestruturas feministas, Enredando territórios de cuidado: guia para aprendizado e construção de redes comunitárias
- 2021: Marialab, Cartilhas de infraestruturas feministas, Servidoras: como colocar seu site no ar
You can watch a video presenting the launching of both ressources here
Principles
ENG: Thinking our feminist infrastructures based on stress points
Community infrastructure and feminist infrastructure share common points as well as some of the stresses that affect them. We believe that both are based on processes of doing things in a speculative way. Both can also quickly explode, burst and disappear.
Infrastructure needs to be thought out and developed, and then it needs to be maintained. It is easier to develop than to maintain. Community infrastructure and infrafem must ask themselves the question of maintenance and how not to become subservient to their own infrastructure.
Both involve techniques for life that allow the systemisation/establishment of certain processes that exist in ecosystems which need to be documented, communicated and disseminated to keep them alive.
They tend to systematise/consolidate certain processes, absorbing techniques for life and sometimes use them to make appropriate technologies.
They direct certain needs/actions towards a number of resources designed to cover/answer them, bringing about various effects that we are, as yet, unable to track/read.
An infrastructure tends to (re)generate and (a)cumulate, and the alchemy that results from this stress must be periodically re-examined in order to drain or water/nourish it in time.
All too often the infrafem becomes visible when it ceases to function or when it disappears, how can we establish preventive visibility policies that contribute to their maintenance so that they do not disappear?
Stable infrastructures, or those in a beta stage, allow us to closely explore a paradoxical stress somewhere between ‘gaining’ autonomy and not ‘losing’ independence.
So, in themselves, they are open questions about how we can either continue with them – or live without them – and to what degree (or in what ways) we can make this possible together.
CAST: Pensar nuestras infraestructuras feministas desde los puntos de tensión
La infraestructura comunitaria y la feminista comparten puntos en común y algunas tensiones que las atraviesan. Creemos que ambas se basan en procesos de hacer juntas de manera especulativa. Ambas pueden explotar, reventar, desaparecer rápidamente también.
La infraestructura debe ser pensada y desarrollada, y luego debe ser mantenida. Es más fácil de desarrollar que de mantener. La infraestructura comunitaria y el infrafem deben plantearse la cuestión del mantenimiento y de cómo no convertirse en esclavos de su propia infraestructura.
Implican técnicas para la vida, tecnologías que permiten sistematizar/fijar ciertos procesos y que existen en ecosistemas que necesitan ser documentados, comunicados, circulados para así existir.
Tienden a sistematizar/sedimentar ciertos procesos, absorbiendo técnicas para la vida y haciendo a veces con ellas tecnologías apropiadas.
Orientan ciertas necesidades/acciones hacia algunos recursos pensados para cubrirlos/darles una respuesta, generando efectos varios que no sabemos aún cómo rastrear/leer.
Las infraestructuras tienden a (re)generar y (a)cumular, y hay que revisar con periodicidad la alquimia que se deriva de esa tensión, para drenar o regar/alimentar a tiempo.
Con demasiada frecuencia la infrafem solo se vuelve visible cuando deja de funcionar o cuando desaparece, ¿cómo podemos establecer políticas de visibilidad preventivas que contribuyan a su mantenimiento para que no desaparezca?
Las infraestructuras estables, o las que están en beta, nos adentran en una tensión paradójica entre “ganar” en autonomía y no “perder” en independencia.
Así que en sí mismas son preguntas abiertas acerca de cómo podemos seguir con ellas o vivir sin ellas, y en qué grado (o de qué modos) lo hacemos posible juntas.
FR: Repenser nos infrastructures féministes à partir des points de tension
L'infrastructure communautaire et l'infrastructure féministe ont des points en communs mais aussi des divergences. Les deux types d’infrastructures sont basés sur des processus spéculatifs pour faire des choses ensemble. Les deux types d’infrastructures peuvent exploser, éclater, disparaître rapidement aussi.
L’infrastructure nécessite d’être pensée et développé, et puis elle a besoin d’être maintenue. Il est plus aisé de développer que de maintenir. L’infrastructure communautaire et l’infrafem doivent se poser la question de la maintenance et de comment ne pas devenir asservis par leur propre infrastructure
L’infrafem se base sur des techniques pour la vie, et elle implique des technologies qui permettent de systématiser/fixer certains processus. Elles existent dans des écosystèmes qui ont besoin d'être documentés, communiqués, partagés pour exister.
Elles ont tendance à systématiser/sédimenter certains processus, absorbant des techniques pour la vie pour en faire des technologies appropriées et consenties.
Elles orientent certains besoins/actions vers certaines ressources destinées à les couvrir/répondre, générant souvent des effets que nous ne savons pas encore lire et interpréter.
Les infrastructures ont tendance à (re)générer et à (a)cumuler, et l'alchimie qui résulte de cette tension doit être revue périodiquement afin de drainer ou d'arroser/alimenter à temps.
Trop souvent l’infrafem devient visible quand elle cesse de fonctionner ou quand elle disparaît, comment établir des politiques de visibilité préventives qui participent de leur maintenance pour qu’elles ne disparaissent pas ?
Les infrastructures sont toujours instables, en phase bêta perpétuelle, elles nous font toujours osciller dans une tension entre "gagner" en autonomie et ne pas "perdre" en indépendance (et donc ne pas devenir trop dépendante de cette infrastructure).
Elles posent donc en elles-mêmes des questions ouvertes sur la façon dont nous pouvons continuer à les utiliser ou vivre sans elles, et dans quelle mesure nous rendons cela possible ensemble.
