Presented by: Charlotte Kroløkke, University of Southern Denmark charlottekro@litcul.sdu.dk Grrl Pioneers on the World Wi l d Web, Narratives of Resistance.

Presented by:

Charlotte Kroløkke, University of Southern Denmark

charlottekro@litcul.sdu.dk

Grrl Pioneers on the World Wild Web, Narratives of Resistance

From identity politics to a politics of multiplicity, ambiguity and fluidity

remix

Borrowing

Refashioning

Repurposing

Remediating

Recycling

’97 Bonnie & Clyde

eminem

remix

Invention, resistance and feminist space

Appropriation

Parody

Juxtaposition

appropriation

parody

juxtaposition

Feminist remixing

Dominant discourse Remix

How did pioneer women move us to understand and re-conceptualize notions of gender?

How do they today continue to inspire young women?

What feminist concerns must we also express when reinstating pioneer and frontier rhetoric?

The setting

A white male frontier

Nellie Cashman

Born in Queenstown in Ireland.

Business entrepreneur

“Why child, I haven’t had time for marriage. Men are a nuisance anyhow, now aren’t they? They’re just boys grown up”.

Mary Fields

Stagecoach Mary

independence and strong determination.

Annie Oakley

Little Sure Shot

Guns and athletics for women

It appears that our lot is to be the pioneer women of this medium. Hardily like our female predecessors, we should stand strong and firm, remembering that we are actively plowing the way for the grrrls who will follow us

(Spence in Sinclair, 1996, p. xii).

Enter the World WiLd Web

Geekgirls’ and Net Chicks’ Remix

Being a Net Chick is not about following a particular dress code or wearing a special badge. It’s not about what model of car you drive, what brand of cereal you eat in the morning, or what area of the planet you inhabit. None of that kind of stuff is important or even relevant to being a Net Chick. Being a Net Chick is about having a modem. It’s about being a grrrl with a capital R-I-O-T. It’s about using your keyboard to navigate through the thousands of worlds floating in cyberspace. It’s about becoming empowered by your access to and knowledge of the Internet. It’s about communicating.

(Carla Sinclair 1996, 6).

How can a machine that allows someone access to hip magazines, social interaction, sex advice, grrrl music, video clips of fashion shows, shopping, resources for women’s issues, and private, chick-only salons with names like BITCH and FemXPri be something that’s just for men? That’s ridiculous!(Sinclair 1996, 6)

Girls in Oz are tuff just like you American chicks, ‘coz we got a lot of open space’.

(Roxie X in Sinclair 1996, 89)

Outlaw Rhetoric?

Outlaw rhetoric is incommensurate with the logic of dominant discourse

(Ono & Sloop, 2002).

The end