Word Weavers: Josephine Starrs and Virginia Barratt

2025-05-06

Josephine Starrs and Virginia Barratt were among the creators of the VNS, an Australian feminist art collective born in the early days of the world wide web in the 1990s. The group is credited with coining the term "cyberfeminism." For Further Reading: The cyberfeminists who called themselves ‘the future cunt' | Dazed An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists This month, we're talking about Word Weavers — people who coined terms, popularized words, and even created ent...

For Further Reading:

The cyberfeminists who called themselves ‘the future cunt' | Dazed
An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists

This month, we're talking about Word Weavers — people who coined terms, popularized words, and even created entirely new languages. These activists, writers, artists, and scholars used language to shape ideas and give voice to experiences that once had no name.

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