The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the Fembot Collective, Ms. Magazine, and the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society are sponsoring a two-day event focused on feminist innovation, education, and collaboration.
Day 1: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon:
“On Friday, March 11th we’ll convene at the Ms. Magazine’s offices in Beverly Hills to write historical figures that have been marginalized because of their gender, race, and sexuality into Wikipedia. Our Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon will not only contribute to the world of free and accessible knowledge, but will emphasize a conscious feminist approach so as to ensure the existence of a gender inclusive history of everything within Wikipedia’s vast database. At the Edit-a-Thon, we’ll be training people on how to navigate the content production system in Wikipedia, how to make effective and engaging entries that will outlive their creators, and how to improve on existing content with more robust citations, data, categories, infoboxes, etc. Join us as we ensure the digital legacy of women, trans, and/or gender non-conforming people in multiple discipline, fields, and periods of history!”
3 Tracks for this year’s event:
- Writing the history of athletics from the margins: documenting the careers of marginalized figures in college athletics
- Excavating the Ms. Magazine archives: generate Wikipedia content on-site from the Ms. Magazine, a political publication covering feminist content, archives in Beverley Hills
- Producing content with your own ideas: “ensure the presence of women, trans, and/or gender non-conforming people in multiple disciplines, fields, and periods of history. Bring your ideas along!”
Day 2: Un-Conference on Digital Tools for Civic Engagement
“On, Saturday, March 12th, we’ll head over to USC to workshop and launch the first chapters of Fembot’s forthcoming textbook on Digital Tools for Civic Engagement. The un-conference begins with a series of lightening talks that introduce six digital tools and ways to harness them for feminist scholarship, activism, and civic engagement.In the afternoon, we’ll come together and vote on our three favorite feminist tools to tackle, followed by concurrent workshops where participants are trained on the basics and collaborate on applications. All three sessions will lay the groundwork for Fembot’s open access digital textbook on digital tools for civic engagement, which will be published through Fembot’s open access platform as part of the Fembot Toolkit.”
