Beyond the Blackbox: Repurposing ROM Hacking for Feminist Hacking/Making Practices

Jaime Lee Kirtz · Ada A Journal of Gender New Media and Technology · 2018

While much interest in feminist technology looks to future inventions, dead or obsolete communication media, such as older smartphones, offers spaces in which to hack into effaced gendered narratives, specifically through physical processes of deconstruction and circuit bending. Thus, this practice brings attention to the tasks and narratives of circuit inspection and soldering of female … Continue reading Beyond the Blackbox: Repurposing ROM Hacking for Feminist Hacking/Making Practices →

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