Sublime

Cyberfeminism—a capacious term the Index seeks to both bring into view and complicate—asks us to consider how the integration of technology into our lives should affect our understanding of the gendered self and how technology itself can serve as a tool of liberation, oppression, and intellectual dissemination.

We are taught that women are the empathetic, caring, and nurturing ones and any deviation from this belief is deemed a failure of DNA or the mother. Women who do not exist in these boxes are considered disrespectful, aggressive, or too masculine. Black women who assert boundaries or raise their voices have historically been labeled aggressive or... See more