Hyperallergic published this piece by Legacy Russell in late January that touches on Judy Chicago’s Atmospheres, Caster Semenya’s dismissed appeal, Black womanhood, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, forced hysterectomies on women detained by ICE, Amy Cooper’s Central Park 911 call on Christian Cooper and so so much more:

Glitch feminism asks us to break what’s broken with the goal of rebuilding. It is abolitionist work, it is intersectional work, and it is emergent work. As a politic, glitch feminism pushes limits and challenges the gender binary as part of the collective project of abolition, recognizing that gender — and the rigidity of its binaries as a trope and trap — have historically been weaponized as a spoke in the wheel of anti-Blackness. When we essentialize Judith Butler’s commonly called-upon turn of phrase “gender is a construct,” we forget to say aloud that gender is a racialized construct, an ableist construct, a classist construct, a xenophobic construct.

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