This is a non-exhaustive compilation of readings by Black, Indigenous, mixed race, and scholars, artists, and activists of colour and trans and queer scholars on intersectional feminisms, technology, performance, design, and digital humanities. The list is always in progress, just like all our anti-racist work should be. We welcome and encourage any suggestions to this list.
INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS AND ACTIVISM
Ahmed, Sara. 2017. Living A Feminist Life. Duke University Press.
Carruthers, Charlene A. 2018. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Beacon Press.
Charleyboy, Lisa and Mary Beth Leatherdale (Eds.). 2017. #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women. Annick Press.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge.
Collins, Patricia. 2015. Intersectionality’s Definitional Dilemmas. Annual Review of Sociology 41(1): 1-20.
Cooper, Brittney C. 2018. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Davis, Angela Y. 1983. Women, Race, & Class. Vintage Press.
Duarte, Marisa Elena. 2017. Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
hooks, bell. 2000. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. South End Press.
Kendall, Mikki. 2020. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. New York: Viking.
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse and Asha Bandele. 2018. When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Lorde, Audre. 2007 (reprint edition). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press.
Luke, Suzanne (Foreword), Nadia Myre (Artist), Louise Bernice Halfe (Contributor), and Sara Matthews (Contributor). 2019. A Casual Reconstruction. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Oluo, Ijeoma. 2019. So You Want to Talk About Race. Seal Press.
Singh, Julietta. 2018. Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements. Duke University Press.
Wemigwans, Jennifer. 2018. A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online. University of Regina Press.
TECHNOLOGY
Benjamin, Ruha. 2019. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity Press.
Bonilla, Yarimar and Max Hantel. 2016. “Visualizing Sovereignty: Cartographic Queries for the Digital Age.” sx:archipelagos 1, no. 1.
Broussard, Meredith. 2018. Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Boston: MIT Press.
Browne, Simone. 2015. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Duke University Press.
Chow-White, Peter. 2012. “Genomic Databases and an Emerging Digital Divide in Biotechnology.” In Race After the Internet, edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White, 291-309. New York: Routledge Press.
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. 2009. “Race and/as Technology, or How to Do Things to Race.” Camera Obscura 24, no. 1: 7-34.
Gray, Kishonna L. and David J. Leonard (Eds.). 2018. Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice. University of Washington Press.
Jackson, Sarah J., Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles. 2020. #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice. MIT Press.
Nakamura, Lisa. 2008. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Noble, Safiya Umoja. 2018. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York Press.
Noble, Safiya Umoja and Brendesha Tynes. 2016. The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online. New York: Peter Lang.
PERFORMANCE
Ahmed, Sara. 2006. The Nonperformativity of Antiracism. Meridians 7.1: 104-26, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40338719?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Alexander, Bryant Keith. 2012. The performative sustainability of race: reflections on Black culture and the politics of identity. Peter Lang.
Carter, Jill. 2018. “It’s about becoming”: Indigenating research practice at the CDTPS. Theatre Research in Canada 39.2.
Johnson, E. Patrick. 2005. “ ‘Quare’ studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother.” In E. Patrick Johnson and Mae Henderson. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Duke University Press. 1-25.
Keleta-Mae, Naila. 2015. An autoethnographic reading of Djanet Sears’s The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God. Theatre Research in Canada 31.1: 73+.
Kim Daniher, Colleen and Katherine Zien. 2020. Special Issue: Race and performance in the US-Canada borderlands. Theatre Research in Canada 41.1.
Kondo, Dorinne. 2018. Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the World of Creativity. Duke University Press.
Nolan, Yvette, and Ric Knowles. 2016. Performing Indigeneity. Playwrights Canada Press.
DESIGN
Akama, Y. (2017). ‘With great power comes great responsibility’ when we co-create futures. Journal of Marketing Management, 33(3–4), 272–279. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2017.1284433
Carroll, Antionette D. “Can Design Dismantle Racism?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIsMqiBmSA https://www.antionettecarroll.design/
Costanza-Chock, S. (2018, June 28). Design Justice: Towards an intersectional feminist framework for design theory and practice. Design Research Society Conference 2018. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2018.679
Costanza-Chock, Sasha. 2020. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. MIT Press.
Creative Reaction Lab. Field Guide: Equity Centered Community Design. https://www.creativereactionlab.com/store/field-guide-equity-centered-community-design
Schultz, T., Abdulla, D., Ansari, A., Canli, E., Keshavarz, M., Kiem, M., Martins, L., & Oliveira, P. (2018). What Is at Stake with Decolonizing Design? A Roundtable. Design and Culture, 10, 81–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2018.1434368
Sinclair, B. (2004). Integrating the Histories of Race and Technology. In B. Sinclair (Ed.), Technology and the African-American experience: Needs and opportunities for study (pp. 1–17). Cambridge and London
Tran O’Leary, J., Zewde, S., Mankoff, J., & Rosner, D. K. (2019). Who Gets to Future?: Race, Representation, and Design Methods in Africatown. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI ’19, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300791
Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Zaman, T., & Stanley, C. (2019). A classification of cultural engagements in community technology design: Introducing a transcultural approach. AI & SOCIETY, 34(3), 419–435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-017-0739-y
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Aiyegbusi, Babalola Titilola. Decolonizing Digital Humanities: Africa in perspective. In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. University of Minnesota Press.
Bailey, Moya. 2011. “All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave.” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 1.
Bailey, Moya. 2015. #transform(ing) DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 9, no. 2.
Bali, Maha. 2018. The ‘unbearable’ exclusion of the Digital. In Disrupting the Digital Humanities, edited by Dorothy Kim and Jesse Stommel. Punctum Books.
Chatelain, Marcia. 2018. Is Twitter any place for a [black academic] lady? In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. University of Minnesota Press.
Cole, Danielle, Izetta Autumn Mobley, Jacqueline Wernimont, Moya Bailey, T. L. Cowan, and Veronica Paredes. Accounting and Accountability: Feminist Grant Administration and Coalitional Fair Finance. 2018. In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, , edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. University of Minnesota Press.
Coleman, Beth. Domestic disturbances: precarity, agency, data. In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. University of Minnesota Press.
Gairola, Rahul K. “Tools to Dismantle the Master’s DH(ouse): Towards a Genealogy of Partition, Digital Necropolitics, and Bollywood Cinema.” Postcolonial Studies (Routledge/ Taylor & Francis). December 2019. 1-23.
Gallon, Kim. 2016. Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities. Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, U of Minnesota P, 2016, pp. 42–49.
Kim, Dorothy. 2019. Digital whiteness and Medieval Studies. Arc Humanities.
Lopez, Lori Kido and Konrad Ng. 2016. “Building Digital Bridges: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Asian American Studies,” In The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies, edited by Cindy I-Fen Chen, 305-317. New York: Routledge.
Murray, Padmini Ray. 2018. Bringing up the bodies: the visceral, the virtual, and the visible. In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. University of Minnesota Press.
Risam, Roopika. 2016. “Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism.” Debates in Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, U of Minnesota P, pp. 359–67.