The Body Image: Selfies, SkinneePix, and Our Malleable Digital Bodies
What are we to make of the “self” captured in a “selfie”? If one is both author and subject of an image, we might claim a compelling authenticity. But like Donna Haraway’s “cyborg,” the “self” captured...
View ArticleOpenness, Theories of Writing, and Coding Robots
At the Maker Faire in Fall 2016 my son and I played with various toys designed to encourage creative making. The most popular toy was the Ozobots, robots designed to teach kids to code using markers...
View ArticleAdopting Critical Ethical Practices in Research on Gender and Embodiment
My dissertation research uses queer rhetoric as a lens for analyzing and studying moments of queering gender norms on Instagram. I took a case study approach and analyzed Instagram posts by Lady Gaga,...
View ArticleCreating Decolonial Spaces of Puerto Rican Activism on Facebook
The hours, days, weeks, and months following hurricane María have been marked by a deep anxious sorrow for many Puerto Ricans on and off the Caribbean context. For those of us Puerto Ricans in the...
View ArticlePlanners as Feminist Technology
On the recording, there’s a heavy thunk, then the sound of objects scattering. I had just asked my interviewee to describe the tools she used to write, and like many of the folks I’d talked to before...
View ArticleEntangled Frames: New Materialist Feminism and Queer Archives
Like many scholars in our field, I’ve become fascinated by the affordances and challenges of new materialist thought to rhetorical inquiry. Specifically, I’m interested in how new materialism might...
View ArticleLet’s Hear It for the Girls!
I want girls to be empowered and to stand up for what they believe in … to be confident in who they are and [not]to care about what others say about them. — Clarivel, 14 I hear them thundering down the...
View ArticleSlutWalk on Digital Media: A New Materialist Reworking of Women’s Identity
Every year, SlutWalk protesters gather together in various cities around the globe to rail against the slutshaming of rape victims and to counter the stereotypes surrounding female victims’ physical...
View ArticleWrap Up for “Material and Digital Rhetorics: Openings for Feminist Action”
It’s time for our “Material and Digital Rhetorics: Openings for Feminist Action” blog carnival to come to a close. Thank you so much to our contributors for your thoughtful work! And a huge thanks to...
View ArticleAltar to the Women of Rhetoric: Día de Muertos Altars as a Material...
In Fall of 2017, a group of student’s in Frontera Retorica—the graduate student chapter of RSA at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)—were enrolled Dr. Victor Del Hierro’s History of Rhetoric...
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