Noun: "(neologism) a branch of feminism which rejects naturalism and posits the abolition of gender and/or gendered oppression through the posthumanist embrace of technology"
2018, Laboria Cuboniks, The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation, unnumbered page:
Xenofeminism understands that the viability of emancipatory abolitionist projects—the abolition of class, gender, and race—hinges on a profound reworking of the universal.
2018, Emily Jones, Sara Kendall, & Yoriko Otomo, "Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century", Australian Law Journal, Volume 44, Issue 1 (2018), page 5:
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.
She briefly discusses xenofeminism and technofeminism with its focus on technological alienation of basic feminine experiences, however, her project is less focused on feminist agendas than the cyborgian fusion of body and technology.
2019, Charlie Gere, I Hate the Lake District, page 13:
Xenofeminism offers a new form of feminism.
2019, Bogna M. Konior, "Automate the Womb: Ecologies and Technologies of Reproduction", Parrhesia, Issue 31 (2019), page 232:
Xenofeminism sees the rising wave of technocracy but instead of searching for a buoy, it wants to catch the surf.
2019, Jordi Vallverdú & Sarah Boix, "Ectogenesis as the Dilution of Sex or the End of Females?", in Feminist Philosophy of Technology (eds. Janina Loh & Mark Coeckelbergh), page 113:
Rejecting the claim that science and technology are inherently masculine or patriarchal, Xenofeminism looks at attempts to repurpose technology to liberate women.
2020, Astrid Ensslin et al., "'These Waves ...'" Writing New Bodies for Applied E-Literature Studies", Electronic Book Review, page 9:
As theoretical backdrop, we adopt a xenofeminism-inspired vision of difference as a combination of anti-binarist super-diversity and peripheral centripetality, a vision that embraces intersectionality as a matrix that normalizes queerness, complexity, métissage (Donald), and fluidity.
2020, Christopher M. Cox, "Rising With the Robots: Towards a Human-Machine Autonomy for Digital Socialism", tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Volume 18, Issue 1, page 70:
In a similar vein, xenofeminism situates automation and other technologies as the means to reconfigure cultural notions of work.
2020, Jean-Luc Moriceau, Carlos Magno Camargos Mendonça, & Ângela Salgueiro Marques, "Opposing acceleration: the tragedy of resistance in Brazil", Journal of Organization Change Management, Volume 35, Issue 1:
Deleuze and Guattari would probably feel better at home with xenofeminism.
As regards anti-naturalism, xenofeminism accepts that science and technology can intervene in nature and thereby extend human freedom; in other words, nature is not immutably fixed, and technology should shape a horizon of possibilities in a proactive and emancipatory reworking of the gendered system.
2021, Michael J. Barany, "'A Young Man's Game:' Youth, Gender, Play, and Power in the Personae of Mid-Twentieth-Century Global Mathematics", in Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations (eds. Kirsti Niskanen & Michael J. Barany), page 40:
Laboria Cuboniks, an anagram of Nicolas Bourbaki, turning the latter's confrontation, alienation, and universalism into a gnomic critical platform of xenofeminism seeking new relations between identity, technology, and nature.
2021, Robin James, "Sonic Cyberfeminisms, Perceptual Coding and Phonographic Compression", Feminist Review, Volume 127, Issue 1, March 2021, pages 24-25:
This section argues that xenofeminism, a type of cyberfeminism that is increasingly popular in the academy and in the arts, including in sound art and popular music, is a form of ideal theory modelled on white women’s phenomenological life-world and which perceptually codes black women’s experiences of gendered embodiment out of feminist theory.
2021, Jordi Vivaldi, "Xenological Subjectivity: Rosi Braidotti and Object-Oriented Ontology", Open Philosophy, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2021, page 325:
In its accelerationist vocation, xenofeminism reclaims the liberating potential of technology by pushing capitalism to its limits in order to speed up its collapse.
2021, Brian Willems, "Past Fragments ,Future Change: Dubravka Ugrešić, Vladan Desnica, Sanja Iveković, and Dalibor Martinis", in Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time Towards the Temporal Turn in the Critical Study of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures (eds. Aleksandar Mijatović & Brian Willems):
Focusing on Hester’s work, xenofeminism connects feminism to technology in three ways: technomaterialism (using technology to free the body from its gendered roles), anti-naturalism (against any assumptions as to the nature of gender) and gender abolitionism (not the end of gender, but rather its multiplication to the point of no longer being of interest) […]
