Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities

Lead Research Organisation: University of Sussex
Department Name: Sch of Media, Arts and Humanities

Abstract

'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' (FSFDH) is a collaborative UK-Ireland project between the University of Sussex (UK), Technological University Dublin (Ireland) and Maynooth University (Ireland). Partners include Cambridge Digital Humanities (UK), the Digital Repository of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The project will make the field of Digital Humanities (DH) more inclusive by applying feminist approaches that link cultures, communities, and repositories, and will embed intersectional feminist praxis, as a critical methodological approach, across DH environments.

FSFDH will develop and publish an interoperable 'Full Stack Feminist' (FSF) methodology and toolkit, that can be applied by DH communities & organisations, helping to create more inclusive and representative digital cultural heritage. The toolkit is built through an exploration of 3 stacks and work packages: data and archives; infrastructure, tools & code; access, experience, and integration. "Full stack" means we are concerned with issues related to inequalities in DH that span from the infrastructure layer to the representation layer - it reaches, and cuts, across all types of environments. Each stack will be analysed through an intersectional feminist lens to inform the development our open-source toolkit, comprised of various components, including workflows, coding tutorials, a manual, artefacts and a range of published literature. The toolkit will support strategic policy developments and ethics in communities, organisations, and institutions by being made accessible and distributed to digital humanists, social scientists, policymakers, computer scientists, software developers, data journalists, archivists and community archivists, digital artists.

Our project will embed social values and humanities methodologies, from back-end development to front-end user interfaces, ensuring feminist inclusionary methodologies are incorporated in the full stack of digital development processes. It is designed to recode DH as a field informed by intersectional feminism and is dedicated to the creation of an inclusive, self-aware, and critically engaged praxis. FSFDH is intersectional, that is, it takes seriously the multiple, overlapping systems of oppression that operate within and across society, and which manifest in our digital environments.

FSFDH expands on a framework of engagement seeded in the AHRC-IRC funded network 'Intersections: Feminism, Technology and Digital Humanities' (IFTe). This new project will continue to confront and challenge 'systemic limitations to DH's positive impact on society and culture. Drawing on intersectional feminist theory and practice, its goal is to build an inclusive and responsive DH, able to grapple with complex societal and community needs' (www.ifte.network). It represents a set of feminist approaches that is led by theory, praxis, and action-research. It challenges the perpetuation of algorithmic bias, of gendered and binary information systems, of documenting, digitising, and prioritising the histories and work of "dead white [cis] men". It embeds feminist praxis across and within the development cycle of DH projects, using the "full stack" metaphor to guide interventions in, for example, building inclusive and representative data models, rethinking controlled vocabularies, and critiquing our assumptions of access controls.

Digital Humanities has a problem. It is built from inherited heteronormative, gendered, and frequently racist brick and mortar. 'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' will address this by enhancing and diversifying public access to and engagement with digital cultural heritage and intersectional feminist methods, through the application of FSF and development of the open-source FSF toolkit.

Publications

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Title Feminist Objects and Creative Writing 
Description As part of the Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities project, a creative writing session was held at the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab (SHL Digital) for team members. The session was facilitated by Sarah Lee, an academic impact consultant, freelance facilitator, writer, editor, and a co-founding member of the Brighton and Hove Black History Group. Team members in attendance, Cecile Chevalier, Izzy Fox, Irene Fubara-Manuel, Laurence Hill, Jeneen Naji, Sharon Webb, were asked to bring an object that represented their journey through the Full Stack Feminism project. This collection includes those objects and the writing which they inspired. The written outputs are collaborative pieces as well as individually authored. It also includes the workshop documentation. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact This results to these creative writing session has been added to the FSF-Archive 
URL https://fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/
 
Title Manifestations 
Description A group exhibition exploring the themes of FSFDH and particularly focusing on the decentring of 'traditional' voices in the arts. Curated by Laurence Hill, and collaborators were: Roibí O'Rua; T Braun; Marie Hinson; Kinnari Saraiya; Whiskey Chow; RA Walden; Lauren Kelly; Yarli Allison; Jamila Prowse 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact An open Exhibition was curated on the University of Sussex campus, as a provocation for conversation. 
 
Title Manifestations 
Description As part of the Full Stack Feminism programme of work, we commissioned two artists in residence (one based in Ireland, and one based in the UK). These artists worked alongside the team and then produced artefacts for the project exhibition, Manifestations (blurb below). The artists were mentored and supported by the project's digital curator, Laurence Hill. Manifestations description: 'Our work, our thoughts, our experiences, manifest in different ways. Through art, poetry, action, and words. 'Manifestations' is an intersectional feminist call-to-action in digital spaces and recognises the importance of creative art praxis, community archives, and critical research in digital humanities. It challenges what counts as knowledge and who gets to produce that knowledge. In presenting the work of artists and academics this exhibition and conference, related to the project the Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' manifests a series of abstract ideas such as intersectionality, positionality, radical empathy, de-centring, among others. In doing so it places practice as a central form of feminist knowledge, where theory emanates from creative artefacts, community archives, embodiment and computational performances.' The exhibition ran alongside the project conference (of the same name) and ran at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts (University of Sussex) for over 5 days. It was free and open to the public, as well as students (at the University of Sussex). Objects from the exhibition are being archived in the project Archive. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Public engagement was a notable impact of the exhibition - it drew audiences from across brighton who would otherwise have not engaged with the project's mission or ideals. Since we also ran the exhibition alongside the project's conference, the exhibition also had a noticable impact in terms of in-depth engagment with the project's concepts. 
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manifestations-full-stack-feminism-conference-exhibition-tickets-6623...
 
Title Queering Bash 
Description Queering Bash - 6 Mar 2023 at University of Sussex (a joint Sussex Humanities Lab & Full Stack Feminism workshop led by Winnie Soon & Mara Karayanni) is a work-in-progress artistic/technical manual, focusing on learning code otherwise. Bash is a command line interface and a scripting language developed in the 80s as a piece of free software for UNIX Systems (Linux and Mac OS but it has been also ported to Windows) and it is a very useful program for system administration, file management, generating reports and automating tasks We are interested in subverting the prevailing norms of technology, namely efficiency, utility, productivity and gendernormativity within capitalistic logics by writing love letters in bash. The love letters became a collection of digital artefacts: https://git.systerserver.net/systerserver/queering-bash authored by Winnie Soon, Mara Karayanni, Mariana Marangoni, Cecile Chevalier, Irene Fubara-Manuel, Nella Piatek. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact https://git.systerserver.net/systerserver/queering-bash/-/blob/main/README.md 
 
Description Since we are nearing the end of the funded project, our most significant achievement has been our outreach and engagement activities with both academic and non-academic partners.

Our interviews and community forums have enhanced our understanding of the problem domain and has brought significant interest to the project. Through this process we have gained a significant set of expertise who are willing to contribute to writings in the toolkit. This helps with a number of our key objectives - the tool-kit; de-centering expertise; and creating sustainable models for intervention.

In addition, our exhibition and conference (Sept. 2023) demonstrated a continued appetite for engagement in the project - demonstrating the need for a long-term engagement around the topics which have been raised e.g. forms of explicit and implicit bias.
Exploitation Route We are harnessing new contributions to our toolkit from our expert network formed of academic and non-academic partners, organisations, etc. The tool-kit will inform their practices as well as that of our readers.

We are developing a feminist software development life-cycle and see this as a significant contribution to the field of digital humanities, and computer science. Additionally, our work on feminist servers (soon to published) will be of use to communities who wish to develop their own autonomous infrastructures.
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Education

Culture

Heritage

Museums and Collections

Other

 
Description Our out-reach and engagement extends to non-academic cultural heritage and archives groups. So far we have held two community forums are organising a third session online. The impact of this engagement is two-fold; community archives and groups are more likely to work with us on the project and are interested in implementing elements of our tool-kit (e.g. inclusive metadata, practices on digital archives). The Keep Archive (Brighton) have also sought my advice on inclusive metadata. I have discussed with them ways in which their data capture for Mass Observations can be improved. In addition, our remodelling the software development life-cycle workshops attracted participation from a broad range of non-academic individuals - including research software engineers from industry, as well as members of non-profit organisations.
First Year Of Impact 2023
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural

Societal

 
Description 'The Importance of the Humanities' panel discussion with colleagues from the School of Media, Arts and Humanities (Sussex) to first year students. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Invited panelist to the 'The Importance of the Humanities' panel discussion with colleagues from the School of Media, Arts and Humanities (Sussex) to first year students from the School. My contribution discussed the importance of 'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' to the way in which research and study is carried out.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description AI and Archives Symposium 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In April 2023, Full Stack Feminism (Sharon Webb) and the Women in Focus (Sarah Arnold, and Sharon Webb) project co-organised event at the University of Sussex. We launched a public call for papers in Dec. 2022 and received over 20 papers for consideration. CFP as follows:

'AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges explores the possibilities and challenges afforded by AI in archives, and does so specifically from an intersectional, eco, feminist perspective. The purpose of this symposium is to share interest in, knowledge of and concerns with AI systems in archives and archival practices. We see this event as an opportunity to engage in conversation and to support further formal and informal networking and collaboration. We are therefore launching a call for papers and welcome the perspectives and experiences of scholars, technologists, archivists, and practitioners.

The final programme of work included a range of early to senior academics, alongside PhD students and industry representaives. The range of speakers and the range of topics:

- Sensitivity and Access: Unlocking Colonial Visual Archives with Artificial Intelligence, Dr Lise Jaillant (Loughborough University)
- Critical feminist screenshotting: capturing search results as partial perspectives of situated knowledge, Dr Renée Ridgway (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Confronting bias: Setting approaches from artificial intelligence and archiving into dialogue, Sarah Burkhardt (University of Amsterdam, PhD Candidate)
- Co-creating anti-racist datasets in AI workflows utilising films as data, Dr Amanda Egbe (University of the West of England)
- Exploring the Methodological Possibilities of Automatic Speech Transcripts of Archived TV News, Jasmijn Van Gorp, Mary-Joy van der Duere (Utrecht University)
- Benin 1897 and the Edo Empire - two views of one subject, Alex Morrison (CogApps, Brighton)
- Innovative tech and invisible labor: lessons from early museum computing, Alexandria Rayburn (PhD Candidate)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-and-archives-explorations-possibilities-and-challenges-symposium-t...
 
Description Archiving Bodies Seminar, Maynooth University (20th May 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This event was organised by Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities, in collaboration with the Digital Repository of Ireland, and featured a number of speakers inlcuding; Jamie A Lee (University of Arizona) and Adela C. Licona (Associate Professor Emeritus, English, University of Arizona), as well as contributions from members of the Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities team, including Orla `Egan (Feminist Digital Humanities Community Coordinator, Maynooth University), Jeneen Naji (Irish PI, Associate Professor in Digital Media, Maynooth University) and Sharon Webb (UK PI, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University of Sussex) and Lorraine Grimes from the Archiving Reproductive Health project.

The event explored innovative, intersectional and challenging approaches to digital archiving and digital projects. It linked a number of projects, researchers and activists challenging our conception of archives: who can archive, and who is archived; how and where we archive; concepts of the archive and their neutrality; who is visible and who is silenced in archival spaces; how we deploy a feminist ethics of care in archiving practice, methods and theory; the ethical challenges archiving trauma, hurt and grief; the role of archives in providing space for critical voices and creative visions; archives of embodied experience and identity creation.

As a hybrid event it attracted a broad audience and was a helpful event in terms of the early stages of the project and for establishing connections with scholars such as Jamie Lee.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ifte.network/event/archiving-bodies-event-held-on-20th-may-2020/
 
Description Community Digital Storytelling Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 7 practitioners in digital storytelling discussed their process and praxis of engaging with digital media and platforms through an intersetional feminist framework. They also shared the challenges they face and shared their feedback on the design and content of the FSF toolkit, which has informed the final version.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Community Forum at University of Sussex (26th Jan. 2023) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Full Stack Feminism hosted their second community forum, which invited a range of community heritage organisations to talk about their work and the way in which technology effects them. We invited members from Brighton and Hove Black History Group, Black Cultural Archives, Queer Heritage South, among others. This was a closed event but will yield important findings for the project and has generated some interest in terms of follow up meetings. We will use the findings of this event to help develop our tool kit.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Conference presentation at HASTAC 2023 - Feminist Making and (De)Coding - Revealing the Stacks 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Peer reviewed conference presentation at the international conference - HASTAC 2023. This conference was hybrid (hosted in the USA) so the presentation was online. It was difficult to gauge how many people were in the room because of the camera set up but the presentation garnered some great responses and worked well to highlight the project and our deliverables.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://web.archive.org/web/20230609145923/https://hastac2023.org/program/
 
Description Digital Humanities, Intersectional Feminism & Community Collaboration 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Dr Izzy Fox: In-person 15 minute presentation as part of Media Studies Research Symposium at Maynooth University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Dr Katherine Nolan (Co-I) spoke about Full Stack Feminism at an Artists Talk at Burren College of Art 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Katherine Nolan (Co-I) spoke about Full Stack Feminism at an Artists Talk at Burren College of Art, in particular they spoke about the creative practice element of the work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities Launch Event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact 30+ people attended our launch/inception event on Friday 10th December. This was a co-located, hybrid event hosted at the University of Sussex. This was our official launch and attendees included project partners, and sparked conversation and questions with potential participants (e.g. what is our feminist ethics of care, etc.). Many delegates
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/full-stack-feminism-in-digital-humanities-launch-event-tickets-217877...
 
Description Full Stack Feminism: Art, Intersectionality and the Digital 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact An in-person talk with artists hosted by project partners, IMMA. The event was attended by 30+ people in-person and it was also live-streamed online. This moderated talk allowed the artists to present their practices and talk about intersectionality and decentring traditional voices in digital arts and humanities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Full Stack Feminism: Art, Intersectionality and the Digital 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact An in-person talk by Katherine Nolan, Jeneen Naji and Izzy Fox, with artists hosted by project partners, IMMA. The event was attended by approximately 30 people in-person and it was also live-streamed online. The talk was an opportunity for three artists to talk about how intersectionality and the digital informs their artistic practice and also the connections with FSFDH. This talk was also an important step in introducing members of the artistic community in Ireland and beyond to the upcoming artists residences, one UK- and one Irish-based as part of the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Hashtags, Hierarchies and Hegemonies: Mainstream Digital Feminist Activism and Intersectional Critiques 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In-person 20 minute presentation as part of a panel at the AoIR 2022 conference held in TU Dublin. 20 people attended the panel. The paper focused on Dr Izzy Fox's PhD research but she mentioned and drew ties with FSFDH and attendees were encouraged to complete our project survey.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description International Conference (DH2023): Intersectional Feminist Revolutions in Digital Humanities: Approaches, Histories, and Methods 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel presentation at DH2023, the international conference for digital humanities. This was a panel presentation which included: Sharon Webb, Cecile Chevalier, Jeneen Naji, Irene Fubara-Manuel, Laurence Hill. Panel abstract as follows:

"How has, and how can, intersectional feminist methods, praxis, and theories shape digital humanities? How can we, as a digital humanities community, embrace and embed feminist thinking into our everyday work practices and in the projects we develop and collaborate on? What tools and methods do we need to create more inclusive and socially aware technological infrastructures, systems, and code? These are the questions being asked by 'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' (FSFDH), a two-year project funded jointly by UK and Irish research councils. Full Stack Feminism (FSF) is akin to Tara McPherson's (2018:27) approach and examination of 'designing for difference'. This includes thinking about and responding to feminist concerns, but also, as Alan Liu (McPherson 2018:28) states, to the 'full register of society, economics, politics, and culture'. FSF is a trans, inter disciplinary research project which develops an intersectional feminist framework for digital arts and humanities (DH) practice and research. The 'Full Stack' metaphor accounts for a commitment to review and critique all stages of the development and data life cycle - from design to implementation, from the processes of datafication to dissemination, critiquing every stack from the code right through the infrastructure layers above. This panel reflects upon the feminist revolution in digital humanities and of the feminist foundations in DH upon which the project is built."

This panel presentation was attended by over 100 delegates at the DH2023 conference, Graz. The panel sparked lots of discussion afterwards, and generated new collaborative potentials.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://zenodo.org/records/7961822
 
Description Intersectional Feminism in Digital Humanities: Critiquing SocioTechnical Stack, Conference Paper @ Algorithms for Her 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Conference presentation at the 2023 Algorithms for Her conference (Sheffield, UK). This conference is attended by many academics who work in the field of gender and technology/social media/access. It has a strong mix of academics (at very stages) and has a strong PhD candidate presence. The conference is delivered hybrid and was well attended by an international audience (both online and in person).

The presentation sparked much conversation around the project, and generated a lot of follow on conversation, including an introduction to some international speakers who attended our conference in Sept. 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://algorithmsforher.wordpress.com/
 
Description Invited Guest Lecture at Leeds University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited guest lecture (May 2023) - invited to speak to students taking the module, Equitable Sustainability, which is part of the Global Conservation Science MSc programme, at Leeds University. The lecture was attended by students, and covered the topic of data bias.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Invited Panelist to Taylor & Francis Group's Discussion on 'Open Data in Action - Perspectives on the open data landscape in social science and humanities research' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Taylor & Francis Group's Discussion on 'Open Data in Action - Perspectives on the open data landscape in social science and humanities research'. Invited panel discussion on Open Data. This was an online only session attended by 60+ researchers, practitioners, data managers, etc., The panel prompted a lot of discussion around open data and ethics, open data and feminism.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://web.archive.org/web/20221006035054/https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/open-data-social-scien...
 
Description Invited Speaker to University of East Anglia HUM Graduate School interdisciplinary seminar 'Digital Humanities'. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited Speaker to University of East Anglia HUM Graduate School interdisciplinary seminar 'Digital Humanities'. The talk, 'Intersectional Feminist Approaches to DH - Writing Inclusive Metadata' discussed the role of intersectional feminism in creating inclusive metadata, and discussed Full Stack Feminism's role.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Lesbian Lives Conference UCC Cork - Orla Egan (DH Community Co-ordinator) presentation on Cork LGBT Archive and Full Stack Feminism project 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Orla Egan, who is the Feminist DH Community Co-ordinator for Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities spoke at the international Lesbian Lives conference in Cork, Ireland. They spoke to a wide sector of audiences. The session raised awareness of Full Stack Feminism project amongst diverse international group of academics and activists. The event also developed links with a number of community projects and fostered interest in engaging with the Full Stack Feminism project. Orla followed up on these links after the conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Manifestations: Full Stack Feminism Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In Sept. 2023, Full Stack Feminism, held a on-day conference, titled, Manifestations. This conference was programmed alongside our exhibition, of the same name. It featured invited speakers, many of which had in some way or other contributed to the project's research programme (e.g. interviewee's, contributors to workshops, etc). The conference was a mix of academic (early to senior), PhD Students, as well as representatives from critical community archives and heritage groups.

The event sparked discussion and requests for further collaboration, and has resulted in further increased interest in the project and related subject areas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ej2Wnz3RVM&list=PLJXIOuXHbWI6eKcDVQHqwN8goBrYS-t_6&ab_channel=FullS...
 
Description On why technology needs Feminism(s) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TEDx style talk by Dr Sharon Webb as part of Sussex Beacons series, Summer of Research 2023, at the University of Sussex, UK. Dr Sharon Webb asks, why does technology need feminism(s)? Or more specifically, why does computational or digital technology need feminism(s)?

The answer to this is quite simple - we cannot continue to develop our technologies in the way that we have. We cannot simply forego our responsibilities to create technologies that work for all, and not just a few, which generate capital based on exploitation and which design, code, and deploy systems that replicate old patriarchal, colonial, racist power structures and ideologies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXhvLZngkDw&t=47s&ab_channel=SHL-SussexDigitalHumanitiesLab
 
Description Online workshops - Remodelling the Software Development Lifecycle 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Between December 2023 and March 2024, Full Stack Feminism held a series of workshops which collaboratively reviewed the software development life-cycle (workshops 1 - 2), and then co-created an alternative life-cycle based on feminist values and principles (Workshops 3 - 5). These workshops were well attended (with an of average 12 participants at each). Partcipants were from various backgrounds and included research software engineers from industry, post-graduate students, as well as practitioners from across digital humanities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023,2024
URL https://fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/feminist-coding-and-making-remodelling-the-software-developme...
 
Description Panel contributor to AI for a Better World? , research symposium at the University of Sussex 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation on 'Intersectional Feminist Interventions in Technology' with a focus on data and AI. This was a panel contribution to a research symposium co-ordinated by Sussex AI, among other centres at Sussex. It spoke to a wide range of issues with relation to AI.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Queer, Feminist Archives and Digital Humanities - CHASE Doctoral Workshop (invited) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This session introduced participants to queer, feminist digital archives and explored the ways digital humanities can support community groups and initiatives build digital archives. It considered the creation of community archives within identity groups as a way to reclaim or promote hidden, lost and/or oppressed histories. It then considered some tools to support the creation of digital archives, particularly, Omeka, and provided an introduction to metadata and the concept of feminist ethics of care in archiving.

6 students PhD doctoral students attended and over the course of 4 hours we discussed many elements of the Full Stack project - the discussion has helped inform the project as well as the student practice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.chase.ac.uk/events-1/queer-feminist-archives-and-digital-humanities
 
Description Queering Bash Talk and Workshop (6th March 2023) at the University of Sussex. Open/Hyrbid event organised by Dr Cecile Chevalier. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Queering Bash was an event organised in collaboration with the Sussex Humanities Lab. It was a mixed in-person and hybrid event which sparked a lot questions and debate around what is queer, feminist computing? What interventions can we make within institutions and what is the role of collective action. The event was a collaboration with Winne Soon (UAL) and Mara Karayanni (independent scholar, developer from Greece).

Sharon Webb, Cecile Chevalier and Irene Fubara-Manuel have plans to develop a follow on bid with Winne and Mara.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-humanities-lab/news-and-events/events?id=59830
 
Description Radical Archives: Community Digital Archives Consultation Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact In-person community archives consultation forum held in the RIA, Dublin, in collaboration with the DRI. 6 different community archives were present, representing the voices, experiences and stories of Travellers, asylum seekers, the trans community The forum was chaired by Orla Egan, FSFDH community coordinator and founder of Cork LGBT Archive, and was co-facilitated by Aine Madden, DRI and Izzy Fox. The biggest outcome was that it was decided to arrange another gathering online of the participants to continue the network in an informal capacity to share resources, experiences and expertise.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Subverting Digital Spaces 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Collaborative event organised as part of the Brighton Digital Festival Programme of events. Event blurb as follows;

"Individually, artists and activists Teresa Braun, AM Darke (tbc), Jake Elwes have subverted traditional digital platforms and their public-facing manifestations by building interactive archival spaces, queering datasets and developing digital tools for social intervention. Collectively, they have drawn from Intersectional, Black, Feminist, Queer and Trans activisms to create online spaces that challenge normative social constructs and their omissions. Among other topics, the session will explore questions around digital activism, the subversion of digital spaces and the disruption of digital privilege. This session is organised by the Sussex Humanities Lab in collaboration with Laurence Hill, Visiting Fellow (School of Media, Arts and Humanities) and the 'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities', AHRC-IRC research funded project, and is part of the Brighton Digital Festival's 2021 programme of events. This is an online event with a limited number of 'In Person' tickets available."

The intention of this public event was to highlight some of the broad issues the Full Stack Feminism Project will tackle. It was also intended as a means to attract new collaborations. This event started at the very early stages of the project but the topic sparked much debate about the role of feminism and queer intersectionality in terms of AI systems, machine learning and data sets.

A useful outcome includes the artists potentially contributing to the projects call for artists scheduled for year 2.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/subverting-digital-spaces-tickets-180106231587
 
Description Sussex Humanities Lab Research Forum - invited contribution 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited to speak at the Sussex Humanities Lab Research forum. We provided an update on the project which sparked interest and discussion in the project. A significant output was more knowledge of the project from a local perspective.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Talk at School of Advanced Studies DH Lunch Time Seminar Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Prof. Jane Winters (Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Studies, London) invited Dr Sharon Webb so speak about Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities Project. This session was part of their regular DH lunch time seminar series that includes colleagues/facility as well as postgraduate students. 20+ delegates were in attendance, the discussion afterwards was very positive and a number of additional contacts were made.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25396