Adorned as a classic milestone on the importance of subculture, Hebdige states in his famous novel, “Members of the working-class encounter daily hardships and alienation from the ruling hegemony.” (resonating with Althusser’s interpolation and Marx’s class consciousness as the theoretical framework here). A translation here is to say that the young generations are hell bent, … More Subculture: The Young Generation’s Revolt

The first article I came across pays attention to our current understanding of what constitutes police brutality; essentially where it occurs and how to address it. While black men face a more brutal, abrupt meeting, women experience this violence in a very specific gendered way. They experience this through sexual harassment and sexual assault. Currently the founders of … More Intersectionality: #AllLivesMatter

The first article I read on Anne and Femtechnet was on the emergence of the Collaborative Courses (DOCC) distributed online collaborative course which allows innovative thinkers to discuss and further deconstruct emerging technology. In an interview, she goes on to question the current state of cultural amnesia that we find ourselves in, how unfamiliar with the topic … More Femtechnet: A DIY Collaboration

Haraway defines a cyborg as a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism. Both a creature of social reality as well as fiction, of technological determinism, really a monster of manmade and nature. Collective feminist technology has since utilized the face of cyborg to reconstructed the “women’s experience” while considering how this message is portrayed and distributed within … More The Cyborg Goddess in the Age of Technological Determinism

Laila Shereen Sakr, (aka) VJ Um Amel dives deep into her Egyptian-Arabic background utilizing computer analytic visualization in order to uncover the root of media convergence. Utilizing R-Shief and Twitter as her own personal playground for her research, she questions how and why certain words are grouped together within a certain number of characters or … More Who Really Is, VJ UM AMEL?

Zimmerman’s article asks questions about objects of creation in regards to their needs and pleasures and the way their designed. Relaying this piece to a specific artifact that resonates with us to articulate its own design and need within the world. At first, it took me a while to figure out the object I wanted … More Moonstone as Universal Healing

Together, we have a goal of focusing on Future Tripping. Hoping to collide each our own impressions with FemTech in cohesion with the humanistic ability to ground these fundamentals to something tangible. With ideas such as pop up installations and collaborately working together, we intend to create something specifically geared for UCSB students who need a … More Abstract Ideas For Class Project

In a world based on the study of text and the books that encapsulate them, the Guerrilla Poetics Project (GPP) have a primary goal of bringing the context back into the hands of the reader.  Guerrilla poetry is defined as performing readings and recitals through one or two poems spoken by a small group in … More An Advocacy for Guerrilla Wordfare

Harrassmap is an advocacy campaign dealing with the prevention and response to violence against girls in Egypt. Its goal is to stop people from standing by and letting violence happen, its hope is to initiate a conversation and set a context for people to have space in where they can openly change and engage others … More HarrassMap: Relinquishing Fear For Good