What if the technologies we cherish were developed to crash, instead of maintain, the matrix of domination of capitalism, hetero-patriarchy, white supremacy, and colonization? Article by @joana_varon for @deep_dives https://deepdives.in/the-future-is-transfeminist-from-imagination-to-action-6365e097eb22

Throughout history, human beings have used a variety of divination methods to understand the present and reshape our destinies. The #Oracle for Transfeminist Futures is a playful tool designed to help us collectively envision and prototype ideas for alternative imaginaries.

The technology is not neutral and can reinforce gender and class patriarchal roles, @joana_varon writes in #BodiesofEvidence for @deep_dives

Which ways of life and forms of existence the Big Five are promoting? Which ones are being excluded?

https://deepdives.in/the-future-is-transfeminist-from-imagination-to-action-6365e097eb22

The Big Five use terms such as ‘community’ while what they actually want is to turn us into addicted ‘users’ — with our desires becoming the products and targets of those running what black feminist scholar Patricia Hill Collins calls the matrix of domination.

Sara Ahmed says: ‘The experience of being subordinate — deemed lower or of a lower rank — could be understood as being deprived of no. To be deprived of no is to be determined by another’s will.’ How can we say NO to terms of services of the Big 5?

https://deepdives.in/the-future-is-transfeminist-from-imagination-to-action-6365e097eb22

So, imagination is a tool for #revolution. How can we build #technologies based on #feminist notions of #consent? How can we use feminist frameworks and values to question, imagine, and #design technologies?

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