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Building a Feminist Library
FALL 2022-PRESENT Taking place across a series of gatherings, this project comes from our desire to collectively build an FMS Statement of Values and Commitments in tandem with a feminist library. Inspired by Max Liboiron’s CLEAR Lab Values Process, we are using storytelling to identify collective values we hold as FMS members. These core… -
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Test Project
Fall 2022 – PRESENT Taking place across a series of gatherings, this project comes from our desire to collectively build an FMS Statement of Values and Commitments. Inspired by Max Liboiron’s CLEAR Lab Values Process, we will use storytelling to identify collective values we hold as FMS members. These core values will then…
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Talking to Each Other: A Collective Sounding Project
Spring 2019 – PRESENT A multi-media, collaborative research-creation project directed by Simone Lucas, with Access in the Making Lab (AIM) and the Feminist Media Studio (FMS), in partnership with Accessibilize Montreal and Suoni Per Il Popolo. In this project, the FMS, AIM, and our community partners, want to collectively work, tinker and experiment with the frictions and challenges between technologies, access and critical forms of media… -
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TOOL / Sensing Community Needs in the Pandemic
⟵ A. THE CRISIS WAS ALREADY HERE Tool / Sensing Community Needs in the Pandemic Our living document begins with the critical question, Is it time to get creative? We were compelled in writing it by the contradictory forces of the pandemic: the urgent desire to do feminism in the pandemic, and the overwhelming impulse… -
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TOOL / From Territorial Acknowledgements to Technological Acknowledgements
⟵ A. THE CRISIS WAS ALREADY HERE Tool / From Territorial Acknowledgements to Technological Acknowledgements The Feminist Media Studio is located on the lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, who are the custodians of the lands and waters on which we frequently gather. The FMS has been using Territorial Acknowledgements grounded in the models of the… -
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D. What are my resources? – Doing Feminism in the Pandemic
⟵ DOING FEMINISM IN THE PANDEMIC D. What are my resources? We read too much, or not enough; we study graphs and watch numbers. We scale shift between government missives, reportage on the ground, the word of experts, and our colleagues, friends, and solidarians who see things that shape our view of the pandemic, of its devastating… -
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C. What is the everyday of the pandemic? – Doing Feminism in the Pandemic
⟵ DOING FEMINISM IN THE PANDEMIC C. What is the everyday of the pandemic? The attention to personal habits in the news—and new languages of sharing everyday pressures and balancing acts—are frequently focused on questions of “coping” or “getting by” or “continuing as normal” in the time of the pandemic. This emphasis on coping and… -
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B. What does COVID-19 teach us? – Doing Feminism in the Pandemic
⟵ DOING FEMINISM IN THE PANDEMIC B. What does COVID-19 teach us? Efforts to decentre the human in the humanities, arts, and social sciences have focused on the materiality and agency of a multiplicity of non-human actors. Among them, viruses have presented a potent test case for rethinking different logics of action, collective articulations, reconfigurations of the… -
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A. The crisis was already here – Doing Feminism in the Pandemic
⟵ DOING FEMINISM IN THE PANDEMIC A. The crisis was already here Doing Feminism in the Pandemic – Open Letter in Support of #HungerStrikeLaval While COVID-19 feels like a radical shift in the order of things, the viral crisis builds upon and exacerbates fierce but existing forms of expropriation, exclusion and exploitation that constitute the… -
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Doing Feminism in the Pandemic
OR DYING TOGETHER: A LIVING DOCUMENT What does it mean, as feminists, to live and die in COVID-19 times? What does it mean to do feminism in the pandemic? How to think this moment together without succumbing to the demand to be productive despite the crisis? How to think new models of processing together that… -
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Imagine Going on Strike!
September 2020 – PRESENT In the pre-lockdown spring of 2020, several members of the FMS gathered to read Ariella Azoulay’s “Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism” together, in preparation for her scheduled visit in October 2020. We had gotten through Ch.1 together when we were sent home to quarantine. The book is a magnificent 650-page endeavor, a…
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