xenofeminism means A branch of feminism which rejects naturalism and posits the abolition of gender and/or gendered oppression through the posthumanist embrace of technology. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why “xenofeminism” is a great word
A feminism that rejects naturalism and advocates for the abolition of gender through a posthumanist embrace of technology. From xeno- (from Greek xenos, meaning 'strange' or 'foreign') + feminism; coined in 2015 by the collective Laboria Cuboniks. Unlike ecofeminism, which sanctifies a spiritual bond between women and nature, or liberal feminism, which seeks equality through incremental reform, xenofeminism is a call to alienate ourselves from the given. It is the sterile glow of a server farm envisioned as a site of liberation, the coded logic of an algorithm drafted to dismantle a hierarchy, and the prosthetic extension of a body refusing its assigned category—a manifesto for a future stranger than nature, written in the syntax of the machine.
Etymology
From xeno- + feminism. Coined by the collective Laboria Cuboniks in their 2015 manifesto The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation.
noun
- A branch of feminism which rejects naturalism and posits the abolition of gender and/or gendered oppression through the posthumanist embrace of technology.“Even if they were to incorporate feminist perspectives, however, tensions remain between the desire to use technology for change, as in feminist posthumanism and xenofeminism, and the recognition of its embeddedness within both militarism and capitalism.”