#DHPoco: Postcolonial Digital Humanities

#DHPoco: Postcolonial Digital Humanities turned 1 today!

"Analytical Building" in the #DigitalHumanities, or Why the World Needs #DHPoco, #3. 

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Why the World Needs #DHPoco, part 2. 

We are not just another diversifySTEM™ organization aiming to integrate “minority" groups into the so-called “open source" community. We are creating our own space. We combine a critical passion for technology and digital media arts with our work towards POC empowerment, disability justice, decolonization, queer liberation, prison abolition, the destabilization of patriarchy, and other struggles we share."

Unfortunately our old host took down the spoof of Half the Sky. It's now being shared here: http://escapethecomplex.tumblr.com. Would love it if you re-shared, love the work of dhpoco!

Through characters like Radhika, Nicholas Kristof's Half the Sky game erases the heterogeneous voices and complex struggles of "Third World" women, instead representing them singularly as victims in need of the Western game-player's rescue. This can have devastating material effects on "Third World" women, especially sex workers. Our spoof game, "Escape from the White-Savior Industrial Complex," attempts to challenge Half the Sky's representations.

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"The Internet... is a TV that watches you." #PRISM #dhpoco #verax #nsa Inspired by this.

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"Do men and women come up in different contexts in the newspaper? One quick way to answer that question is to compare the words in sentences that discuss women with the words in sentences that discuss men. Here's an example of how to do this sort of analysis using Python." blog post by Neal Caren. Read the full blog post here.

Check out our #DHPoco Open Thread: Has the Digital Humanities historically been a refuge from race/class/gender/sexuality/disability? 

"In this article, I propose the concept of safer spaces as a way to understand feminist hackerspaces.  To do this, I focus on the creation of spaces that are based on the assumption that shared common values, whether explicit through a community agreement and/or implicit through a common experience, enable group members to flourish and empower themselves. I follow an intersectional feminist standpoint as 1) an epistemological tool that connects those who experience interlocking oppressions at the crossroads of their gender, race, class, citizenship, sexuality and other identities; and 2) as a commitment to radical inclusivity. Using such a framework helps bring to the fore latent notions of privileges, oppressions and latent discrimination explain why so few women and queer invest and participate in hackerspaces. Creating spaces within hackerspaces on the basis of the fluid concept of gender and other axes of inequalities is not only strategic, but also a constitutive element of feminist hackerspaces." Read full article here.

Mira Nair