Presented by:
Charlotte Kroløkke, University of Southern Denmark
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